LINCOLN CENTER OUT OF DOORS

Aug. 12 at 7, preceding the International Body Music Festival, a group of dancers and acrobats from the Chinese American Arts Council lead a musical parade starting at the Josie Robertson Plaza (in front of the Metropolitan Opera House) and building up to a traditional celebratory Lion Dance. | On Aug. 15, the festival stages a three-part finale. At 5, some seventy-five hip-hop dancers, encompassing pioneers and up-and-comers, internationals and locals, representatives of old and new schools, converge for “Centrifugal Force: Hip Hop Generations.” Under the esteemed direction of Emilio (Buddha Stretch) Austin, Adesola Osakalumi, and Gus Solomons jr., the mobile proceedings culminate in an open cypher. At 7, the always bright-hued and acrobatic Brian Brooks Moving Company extends sky-blue cables over the audience and sets up kinetic chain reactions in the première of “Motor.” Then comes “Dance,” Lucinda Childs’s minimalist landmark from 1979. The original cast, via Sol LeWitt’s accompanying film, joins new dancers to inscribe patterns as clean and uncluttered as those in the Philip Glass score. (Damrosch Park, Lincoln Center. 212-875-5766.)