The Cunningham company performs the choreographer's Ocean, a collaboration with John Cage that premiered at the 1996 Lincoln Center Festival. The work, which will be seen at Jazz at Lincoln Center's Rose Theater, is performed in the round, with musicians surrounding the audience.

Also on the program for the festival, which runs through July 31, is the U.S. premiere of I La Galigo, a music-theater piece by Robert Wilson based on the Indonesian creation myth; a world premiere by the dance company Shen Wei Dance Arts; and the U.S. premiere of Shadowtime, Brian Ferneyhough's opera about philosopher Walter Benjamin.