35th Annual Battery Dance Festival to be Held in August

Battery Dance, in association with Battery Park City Authority, announces the 35th Annual Battery Dance Festival (formerly the Downtown Dance Festival), with free performances on August 14-19, 2016, from 6:30pm to 8:30pm against the breathtaking backdrop of the New York Harbor at Robert F. Wagner Jr. Park in Battery Park City, culminating in a closing event and reception on August 20, 2016, from 6pm to 8:30pm at The SchimMel Center at Pace University. For more information visit http://batterydance.org/battery-dance-festival/

Established by Battery Dance in 1982 as the Downtown Dance Festival, today Battery Dance Festival (BDF) is New York City's longest-running free public dance festival. Audiences are drawn from the downtown working population and residents, families, tourists, senior citizens and dance fans from the greater NYC metropolitan area. Each year, the Festival draws a combined audience of over 10,000.

Battery Dance Festival provides a unique opportunity for local and international dance companies to present original works of high artistic merit in a free public forum. BDF 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, Robert Battle, Andrea Miller, Michelle Dorrance and Darrell Moultrie have all presented their works alongside pre-eminent companies from Asia, Africa, Europe and Latin America.

This year's featured artists include:

LOCAL COMPANIES

Amy Marshall Dance Company

Ballet Inc.

Battery Dance

Buglisi Dance Theatre

De Funes Dance

DoubleTake Dance

FJK Dance

Florida Dance Theatre | Lakeland, Florida

Graham ChoreoLab

Joshua Beamish/Move: The Company

Kilowatt Dance Theater

Lori Belilove & The Isadora Duncan Dance Company

Maxine Steinman & Dancers

Obika Dance Projects

Robin Aren/TRAC

Shawnbibledanceco.

Steps Repertory Ensemble

Thomas/Ortiz Dance | New Canaan, CT

Trainor Dance

Unnah H.R.

XAOC Contemporary Ballet

Y + Y Dance

INTERNATIONAL COMPANIES

Compañía Periferia - Cartagena, Colombia (U.S. Debut)

Pori Dance Company - Pori, Finland (U.S. Debut)

Razvan Stoian - Bucharest, Romania (World Premiere)

SEAD's Bodhi Project - Salzburg, Austria (U.S. Debut)

Zeynep Tanbay Dance Project - Istanbul, Turkey (U.S. Debut)

ERASING BORDERS FESTIVAL OF INDIAN DANCE,

Presented in association with the Indo-American Arts Council

Avijit Das - Bangalore, India

Carolina Prada - New Delhi, India

Chowk (Raka Maitra) - Singapore

Pt. Krishan Mohan Mishra - New Delhi, India

Surabhi Bharadwaj - San Francisco

Sooraj Subramaniam - Gent, Belgium

Sumeet Nagdev Dance Arts - Mumbai, India