Saturday, August 11, and Sunday, August 12, Battery Park lawn, 1:00 – 4:00
Monday, August 13, through Friday, August 17, One New York Plaza, Water St. at Whitehall St., 12 noon – 2:00 pm
Saturday, August 18, Dance New Amsterdam, 280 Broadway (enter on Chambers St.), 6:00
Admission: free
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The thirty-first annual Downtown Dance Festival grooves into Battery Park this weekend, kicking off eight days of free music and movement from around the world, including global fusion dance theater, soul-driven contemporary dance, a teenage group from New York City, an Indian company from Petrozavosk, Russia, and other troupes and disciplines. Sponsored by the Battery Dance Company, the festival gets under way on Saturday afternoon at 1:00 on the Battery Park Lawn with Figures of Flight, the Jamal Jackson Dance Company, Morales Dance, Phoenix Project Dance, Roschman Dance Company, and Singapore’s Sri Warisan Som Said Performing Arts. Sunday includes the host company as well as Buglisi Dance Theatre, Dancewave Company, Exit 12 Dance Company, Kun-Yan Lin/Dancers, Peridance Contemporary Dance Company, and Jamal Jackson and Phoenix. The festival continues Monday through Friday with performances at One New York Plaza, including Vanaver Caravan’s tribute to Woody Guthrie on Thursday and the Erasing Borders of Indian Dance Festival on Friday with Bageshree Vaze, Jaikishore & Mosilikanti, Mayuri Dance Group, Sonali Skandan & Jiva Dance, and the Trinetra Chhau Dance Company. Things conclude on Saturday night at Dance New Amsterdam with Exit 12 and Battery Dance; DNA and Battery Dance Studios will also hold master classes and workshops through August 17.