DOWNTOWN DANCE FESTIVAL
August 11-15, Battery Park, free, 12 noon or 1:00
The Dance WE Made: August 9, 10, 12, multiple locations
La Intrusa Danza, August 12-13, multiple locations
www.batterydance.org
Despite undergoing major renovations, Battery Park will once again host the annual Downtown Dance Festival, now in its the thirty-second year. The festivities begin on Sunday, August 11, at 1:00, with performances by the Battery Dance Company, Greece’s Chapter Two, Dancing Earth, Limón Dance Company, SLK Ballet, and France’s Vendetta Methea & Co. Monday at noon features Chapter Two and Dancing Earth, Tuesday at noon Limón Dance Company and Vendetta Mathea & Co., and Wednesday at noon Battery Dance Company, SLK Ballet, England’s the Dance WE Made, and Spain’s La Intrusa Danza. The Dance WE Made, in which dancer and choreographer Tim Casson creates a perpetual work in progress based on moves demonstrated to him by random people on the street, will also be at the South Street Seaport on August 9 from 11:00 am to 2:00 pm, Bowling Green on August 10 from 11:00 to 1:00, and City Hall from 3:00 to 5:00. La Intrusa Danza, which consists of Virginia García and Damián Muñoz, will also be at City Hall Plaza on August 12 at 5:00 and 55 Water St. on August 13 at 5:00. The programming concludes in Battery Park on August 15 at noon with the Erasing Borders Festival of Indian Dance, with Rama Vaidyanathan, Rani Khanam, Vijaya Lakshmi, Rahul Acharya, and the Gurukul Dance Company.