Battery Dance presents The 43rd Annual Battery Dance Festival - In-Person and Via Livestream

Battery Dance celebrates the 43rd Anniversary of its free summer festival from August 11-17, 2024 with a rain date on Sunday August 18, in partnership with Battery Park City Authority. The 43rd Annual Battery Dance Festival will feature in-person and live-streamed performances staged each night at Rockefeller Park, Battery Park City, New York City at 7PM ET. Reaching both local and international audiences, the Festival promotes Battery Dance’s mission of connecting the world through dance. For more information, visit batterydance.org/battery-dance-festival/.

Battery Dance Festival 2024 Performance Schedule:

(in chronological and alphabetical order; program subject to change)

Sunday, August 11: Battery Dance; Alexandra F. Light; Focus Dance Company; McKoy Dance Project || MDP; A’nó:wara Dance Theatre; wee dance company; Sun Kim Dance Theatre

Monday, August 12/Young Voices in Dance:

Carsyn Gekas; Andrea Agostini; Marshall Kahente Diabo; Zev Haworth; Hannah Howell; Malachi Kingston; Kailei Sin; Chen-Jung Yeh; Anna Lopez; Priscilla Tom

Tuesday, August 13: AU.THENTICITY DANCE CO.; wee dance company; SPAN Dance Company; Julie Crothers; Sibiu Ballet Theater & Gigi Căciuleanu Romania Dance Company; Lucas Crew; Focus Dance Company; A’nó:wara Dance Theatre

Wednesday, August 14: Rutkay Özpinar; Pori Dance Company; Lucas Crew; Battery Dance; SPAN Dance Company; Carolyn Dorfman Dance

Thursday, August 15/India Day: Rajesh Sai Babu Mayurbhanj Chhau Group; Radhika Jha

Friday, August 16/FUTURE 400: Marie Poncé; Ballet Nepantla; Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company; FANIKE! African Dance Troupe; Capoeira Luanda NYC; Rutkay Özpinar; Battery Dance

Saturday, August 17: T'Ana Selah; Sibiu Ballet Theater & Gigi Căciuleanu Romania Dance Company; Evelyn Tejeda; Buglisi Dance Theatre; Pony Box Dance Theatre; Pori Dance Company; Wyatt Sutter & Charles Pierson

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. It draws in-person audiences of approximately 2,000 people each night from the large downtown population of workers, residents, families, tourists, senior citizens and dance fans from the greater NYC metropolitan area and beyond. The Festival went virtual in 2020, attracting 30,000 viewers across 206 countries. In 2021, it ran as a hybrid model with over 10,000 in-person and over 21,000 virtual audience members. Since 2023, the Festival has welcomed in-person and live-streamed audiences from its new home at Rockefeller Park.