Battery Dance Festival Announces 2025 Workshop Offerings

Name: Battery Dance Festival Announces 2025 Workshop Offerings
Start: 2025-08-12T10:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-08-16T11:30:00-04:00
Location: Battery Dance

Schedule

Tue, 12 Aug, 2025 at 10:00 am to Sat, 16 Aug, 2025 at 11:30 am

UTC-04:00

Location

Battery Dance | New York, NY

Battery Dance announces today workshop offerings coinciding with the 44th Annual Battery Dance Festival. All workshops take place from 10–11:30am at Battery Dance Studios 380 Broadway # 5 New York NY 10013. A reservation cost of $1 is non-refundable and reservations are required in advance at https://batterydance.org/2025-bdf-workshops/
Workshop Schedule
Monday August 11 - Faizah Grootens | Netherlands
Tuesday August 12 - Bulareyaung Dance Company | Taiwan
Wednesday August 13 - Minsu Kim from Theater Plauen - Zwickau Ballet Ensemble/ Lucas Crew | Germany/South Korea
Thursday August 14 - UNARTE | Spain
Friday August 15 - Wan Dance | Indonesia
Saturday August 16 - Battery Dance | USA

Class schedule and instructors are subject to change. Battery Dance Studios are located on a 5th-floor walk-up. If use of the elevator is required please contact [email protected] at least 24 hours in advance of the workshop.
Battery Dance Festival’s five-night performance line-up features a plethora of premieres and several performances featuring live music. Crowds of over 12000 in-person and over 35000 virtual viewers typically flock to the Festival each summer with audiences glorying in the opportunity to experience dance against the spectacular water sky and cityscape backdrop. To learn more and register to receive reminders and bonus content visit batterydance.org/battery-dance-festival/.
Performance Schedule:
Dance @ The New Wagner Park Saturday August 9 at 7pm
Battery Dance performs in this celebratory night of dance alongside Marie Poncé The Limón Dance Company choreographer Battery Dance/Rutkay Özpinar and tap dancer John Manzari & Band in celebrating Wagner Park's reopening.

Battery Dance Festival:  Tuesday August 12 – Saturday August 16 at 7pm
Tuesday August 12: John Manzari & Band excerpts of Recenter (USA); Faizah Grootens While You’re Here (Netherlands) Battery Dance Sense of Belonging a world premiere by Faizah Grootens (USA) Bulareyaung Dance Company Colors (Taiwan)

Wednesday August 13: UNARTE Verso Roto (Spain -World Premiere); Theater Plauen - Zwickau Ballet Ensemble Eden (South Korea/Germany); Bulareyaung Dance Company Colors (Taiwan); Faizah Grootens While You’re Here (Netherlands) Platforma 13 Balkan Ballerinas (Romania - U.S. Premiere)

Thursday August 14: Kar-mel Small La Manta de Reina (USA); Theater Plauen - Zwickau Ballet Ensemble Eden (South Korea/Germany); Platforma 13 Balkan Ballerinas (Romania - U.S. Premiere); UNARTE Verso Roto (Spain -World Premiere); Buglisi Dance Theatre Sospiri (USA) Battery Dance Empty Hand by Damani Pompey (USA - World Premiere)

Friday August 15: India Day – A mixed program featuring Nandanik Dance Troupe from Pittsburgh with choreographer and soloist Subhajit Khush Das from Kolkata in a new production on the Goddess Kali.

Saturday August 16: Battery Dance Sense of Belonging by Faizah Grootens (USA- World Premiere); Mofassal Alif In Search of You (Bangladesh); Ô’tänamos Aeternus Viator (USA - World Premiere); Wan Dance Mak Long(Indonesia - New York Debut); Dorchel Haqq swallow (USA - World Premiere) Dalouna Events (USA)

Schedule subject to change.

BATTERY DANCE FESTIVAL New York City’s longest-running free public dance festival was established by Battery Dance as the Downtown Dance Festival in 1982. Originally envisioned and conducted as an “art in the workplace” series the festival brought hundreds of free noontime dance performances to lower Manhattan public spaces including South Street Seaport One Chase Plaza City Hall and for many years the World Trade Center Plaza.  When Superstorm Sandy flooded lower Manhattan in 2012 Battery Park City Authority offered Robert F. Wagner Jr. Park as an alternative site and the Festival refashioned itself into a nighttime event beginning in 2013. With the need to conduct an extensive resiliency plan Wagner Park was decommissioned in 2023 and the Festival relocated again this time to the lawn at Rockefeller Park where it continues this year. https://batterydance.org/battery-dance-festival/

ABOUT BATTERY DANCE
Founded by Jonathan Hollander in 1976 in lower Manhattan Battery Dance now serves as one of America’s leading cultural ambassadors connecting the world through dance. With its exceptional team of dancers who also serve as teaching artists and choreographers the Company pursues artistic excellence and social relevance creating vibrant new works performing on the world’s stages presenting dance in public spaces serving the field of dance with low-cost studios in its home in Tribeca and teaching people of all ages with special attention to the disadvantaged and areas of conflict. Battery Dance is committed to enhancing the cultural vibrancy of its home community in New York City extending programming throughout the U.S. and building bridges worldwide through international cultural exchange with programs in 75 countries to date https://batterydance.org/
SUPPORT FOR THE 2025 BATTERY DANCE FESTIVAL
The 2025 Battery Dance Festival is presented in partnership with Battery Park City Authority. Public Funds have been contributed by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the New York City Council; New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature; and New York City Council member Christopher Marte’s Office. Generous support has been provided by The Shubert Foundation The Harkness Foundation for Dance The Seth Sprague Educational and Charitable Foundation Indian Council for Cultural Relations Consulate General of India in New York State Bank of India Dutch Culture/USA Netherland-America Foundation Fonds Podium Kunsten (Performing Arts Fund NL) Korzo Theater the Taipei Cultural Center of TECO in New York the Ministry of Culture in Taiwan the Consulate General of Spain in New York the Romanian Cultural Center the Consulate General of Germany Weill Cornell Medicine and many individual donors.
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