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Battery Dance Company's 27th Annual Downtown Dance FestivalAUGUST 16-24, 2008 This year, the Downtown Dance Festival will feature 30 dance companies: Amy Marshall Dance Company, Axis Danz, Ballet Noir, Battery Dance Company, Battleworks Dance Company, BODYART, Dance China NY, Dancewave’s Kids Company, Dances By Isadora, Eidolon Ballet, Figures in Flight, Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana, Genesis Dance Company, I -danse, isadoraNOW, Kotchenga, Lane & Co., Lydia Johnson Dance, Naganuma Dance, Naomi Goldberg Haas/Dances For A Variable Population, Rainy Welch, Riedel Dance Theater, Sachiyo Ito, Spinnin Ronin Martial Arts Theater, Stefanie Nelson Dance Group, Undertoe Dance Project, Valentina Kozlova's Dance Conservatory of New York, Vissi Dance Theater, Xodus Dance Collective, and Yaa Samar! Dance Theater. Saturday, August 16th and Sunday, August 17th, 1pm – 5pm Saturday August 16th Sunday August 17th Monday, August 18th – Friday, August 22th, 12pm - 2pm Monday August 18 Tuesday August 19 *Please click here for more info Wednesday August 20 Thursday August 21 Friday August 22 Saturday, August 23th and Sunday, August 24th, 1pm – 5pm Saturday August 23 Sunday August 24 BackgroundEstablished by Battery Dance Company in 1982, the Downtown Dance Festival (DDF) is New York City’s longest-running free public dance festival. Audiences are traditionally drawn from the large downtown working population and residents, families, tourists, senior citizens and dance fans from the greater NYC metropolitan area. Last year, the Festival drew a combined audience of over 7,000 people. Battery Dance Company has invited the Indo-American Arts Council to curate and co-sponsor two days of the Downtown Dance Festival. On August 18th and 19th at Chase Plaza, the First Annual Erasing Borders Festival of Indian Dance will be launched on the Downtown Dance Festival stage. The performances will feature classical Indian dances such as Bharatanatyam, Kathak, Kuchipudi, and Odissi, as well as contemporary choreographies, modern and post-modern works by South Asian dancers and choreographers. This continues Battery Dance Company’s commitment to introducing downtown audiences to exceptional Indian dance. The Downtown Dance Festival provides a unique opportunity for both professional and emerging dancers and choreographers to present original works of high artistic merit in a free public forum. The DDF revels in the panoply of dance that our city offers, with strong emphasis on the inclusion of diverse dance styles and an international roster of performers. American choreographers such as Paul Taylor, Mary Anthony, Elizabeth Streb and Darrell Moultrie have all presented their works alongside pre-eminent companies from Asia, Europe and the Caribbean. *Please note: Due to ongoing construction at South Ferry and Fulton Street, train service changes frequently on the weekends. Always visit http://www.mta.info/nyct/service/advisory.htm before traveling to any of the Festival locations. Contact Sarah Dell’Orto, Festival Coordinator, at 212.219.3910 or sarah@batterydance.org for more info. The Downtown Dance Festival is Sponsored by: AIG, Goldman, Sachs & Co., The Alliance for Downtown New York, The Battery Conservancy, The City of New York Department of Parks & Recreation, JPMorgan Chase, the Mertz Gilmore Foundation, Con Edison, and Hachette Filipacchi Media. This program is supported, in part, by public funds from The New York State Council on the Arts, NYC Council Member Alan J. Gerson and NYC DYCD, The Office of the Manhattan Borough President Scott M. Stringer, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. |
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More Info on the Downtown Dance FestivalClick here to see the history of performers at the Downtown Dance Festival over the years. |
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