A Week of Free Dance Performances in Wagner Park

 
The 37th Annual Battery Dance Festival will take place Aug. 11-18, presented by Battery Dance in association with BPCA. The festival will kick off with an outdoor screening of the documentary Moving Stories on Sat., Aug. 11 at 8 p.m. Each night from Sun., Aug. 12 to Fri., Aug. 17 at 7 p.m., dance companies will perform at Robert F. Wagner Jr. Park on the esplanade in Battery Park City; and on Sat., Aug. 18 at 6 p.m. at Pace University's Schimmel Center. The Festival will present dancers from Botswana, Canada, Costa Rica, Egypt, Gabon, India, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Macedonia and Spain,as well as New York City.
For full line-up of Companies and Performers, see trailer below:

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SAT • AUG 11 @ 8pm
Free Outdoor Screening of Moving Stories  Robert F. Wagner Jr. Park BPC

SUN • AUG 12 - FRI • AUG 17 @ 7pm
Free Outdoor Performances in Wagner Park - Battery Party City

SAT • AUG 18 @ 6pm
Free Indoor Closing Event
The Schimmel Center

Closing event program

Battery Dance (New York City)
Skopje Dance Theater (Macedonia) 
Mophato Dance Theatre (Botswana) 

Tickets go on sale August 6th.  Visit Website for more information.

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Battery Dance Studios - 380 Broadway 5th floor, Tribeca
Open Level (Dance Experience Recommended)

 

August 121:30pm-3pm - Battery Dance | USA
August 1310:30am-12pm - Iker Karrera Dance Company | Spain
August 1410:30am-12pm - Paranoyak Crew | Gabon
August 14: 12:30pm-2pm - Sandip Mallick | India
August 1510:30am-12pm - Citadel + Compagnie | Canada
August 1610:30am-12pm - Mophato Dance Theatre | Botswana
August 1710:30am-12pm - Skopje Dance Theater | Macedonia