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 studio@batterydance.org 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 12,000 in-person and over 35,000 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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