Saturday, August 13, and Sunday, August 14, Battery Park lawn, 1:00 – 4:00
Monday, August 15, through Friday, August 19, One New York Plaza, Water St. at Whitehall St., 12 noon – 2:00 pm
Saturday, August 20, Dance New Amsterdam, 280 Broadway (enter on Chambers St.), 8:00
Admission: free (advance reservations needed for August 20)
www.batterydanceco.com
One of the longest-running free outdoor dance series in the country, the Downtown Dance Festival is turning thirty this year with another diverse lineup of performers taking over Battery Park and One New York Plaza. Running August 13-20, the festival, which is hosted by the Battery Dance Company, includes presentations by BALAM Dance Theater, Ballets with a Twist, Dancewave, Jamal Jackson Dance Company, Lydia Johnson Dance, and Murray Spalding Mandalas as well as Malaysia’s Sutra Dance Theatre and Poland’s Silesian Dance Theatre. The festival will head indoors August 20 for its grand finale, with Sutra Dance Theatre, led by artistic director Ramil Ibrahim, and Silesian Dance Theatre, under artistic director Jacek Luminski, teaming up at Dance New Amsterdam; although all of the outdoor shows are first come, first served, the indoor grand finale requires advance free tickets available here.