BATTERY DANCE COMPANY, MARTHA GRAHAM DANCE COMPANY AND CITY DANCE WASHINGTON JOIN FORCES TO HELP BURMESE VICTIMS OF CYCLONE NARGIS

On September 6th and 7th, Battery Dance Company will be in Washington D.C., participating in a benefit for Burmese Cyclone victims.  For more information: click here. 

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DOWNTOWN DANCE FESTIVAL 2008

August is here, and that means Battery Dance Company's 27th Annual Free Downtown Dance Festival is almost here!  Look for 40 different dance companies in our usual haunts -- Chase Plaza and Battery Park -- as well as across the harbor at Governors Island! For a schedule, full list of participating companies, and info on our exciting partnership with the Indo-American Arts Council, click here. 

DANCING TO CONNECT FROM GERMANY TO LOWER MANHATTAN AND BACK

Dancing to Connect is the name coined in Freiburg, Germany, to describe a creative project for teens that was developed there by Battery Dance Company with choreographer Aviva Geismar over the past two summers. In January, we brought the project home with funding from the LMDC, trying it out with 40 students at Millennium High School. The results were displayed on stage at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center on February 13 to stunning effect! Check out the Battery Blog, http://batterydancecompany.blogspot.com/, for a full report on our Dancing to Connect Projects in Stuttgart, Berlin and Freiburg between June 18 and July 16.

ASIAN STAGES PLAY HOST TO BATTERY DANCE FOR THE THIRD YEAR

Battery danced its way through Asia this past spring, beginning in South Korea (Busan and Seoul) on April 12 and finishing up in Beijing on May 10, with exciting programs in Laos, Taiwan and Mongolia in between. Shell Games, Notebooks, I'll Take You There and the newly remounted Moonbeam were performed by Tadej Brdnik, Robin Cantrell, Bafana Matea, Carmen Nicole, Sean Scantlebury and Mayuna Shimizu, who also plied their teaching craft in schools, universities and conservatories. The tour was made possible through the generous support of the EAP and ECA Bureaus of the State Department, as well as U.S. Embassies in each country; and in China, we were hosted in the First International Modern Dance Festival by the Beijing LDTX Dance Company, National Ballet of China and our hospitality sponsor the JW Marriott Hotel! You can read all about the tour here: http://batterydancecompany.blogspot.com/