{"id":31755,"date":"2025-07-02T05:17:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T05:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/31755\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T05:17:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T05:17:16","slug":"battery-dance-festival-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/31755\/","title":{"rendered":"Battery Dance Festival 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

After a special program to celebrate the reopening of Robert F. Wagner Jr. Park<\/a>, the free annual Battery Dance Festival moves to the North Esplanade of Rockefeller Park for a week of performances by a mix of local and international companies, performing outdoors near the sparkling water at sunset.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The lineup for the 44th edition\u00a0features multiple\u00a0U.S. or world premieres, and the participating artists include visitors from the Netherlands, India,\u00a0Bangladesh,\u00a0Spain, South Korea and Germany, Taiwan, Romania and Indonesia. The slate includes an August 15 program that celebrates\u00a0five\u00a0dance traditions of\u00a0southwestern Indian state of\u00a0Kerala: Kalaripayattu, Kutiyattam, Kathakali, Mohiniyattam and Theyyam.\u00a0All\u00a0six shows are general admission, and there’s a rain date on Sunday, August 17.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Below\u00a0is a full schedule of the artists and companies that will be performing. Visit\u00a0the festival’s website<\/a>\u00a0for additional details.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Pallavi Krishnan | Photograph: Courtesy of the artist<\/p>\n

Tuesday, August 12:
<\/strong>John Manzari & Band, excerpts from\u00a0Recenter
Pace University Dancing to Connect\u00a0
Battery Dance,\u00a0Sense of Belonging
Faizah Grootens,\u00a0While You\u2019re Here
Bulareyaung Dance Company,\u00a0Colors\u00a0<\/p>\n

Wednesday, August 13:
<\/strong>UNARTE,\u00a0Verso Roto\u00a0
Theater Plauen – Zwickau Ballet Ensemble,\u00a0Eden
Bulareyaung Dance Company,\u00a0Colors\u00a0
Faizah Grootens,\u00a0While You\u2019re Here\u00a0
Platforma 13,\u00a0Balkan Ballerinas\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Platforma 13: Balkan Ballerinas | Photograph: Courtesy Marko Pejovic<\/p>\n

Thursday, August 14:
<\/strong>Kar’ mel Small,\u00a0La Manta de Reina\u00a0
Theater Plauen – Zwickau Ballet Ensemble,\u00a0Eden\u00a0
Platforma 13,\u00a0Balkan\u00a0Ballerinas\u00a0
UNARTE,\u00a0Verso Roto\u00a0
Buglisi Dance Theatre,\u00a0Sospiri\u00a0
Battery Dance,\u00a0Empty Hand\u00a0<\/p>\n

Friday, August 15 (India Day\u2014Dances of Kerala):
<\/strong>Pallavi Krishnan\u00a0with Jayasree Nair and Annie Sajayan (Mohiniyattam)
Surjith Panikkar (Theyyam)
Pradeesh K. Thiruthiya (Theyyam)
Raam Kumar (Kalaripayattu)
Sooraj Irinjakaluda (Kutiyattam)
Kerala Kalamandalam with\u00a0Thulasi Kumar and Adyattingal Harinarayanan (Kathakali)<\/p>\n

Saturday, August 16:
<\/strong>Mofassal Al Alif,\u00a0In Search of You
\u00d4\u2019t\u00e4namos,\u00a0Aeternus Viator\u00a0
Battery Dance,\u00a0Sense of Belonging\u00a0
Wan Dance,\u00a0Mak Long\u00a0
Dorchel Haqq,\u00a0Swallow\u00a0
Al-Dal’ouna Dabka Team,\u00a0Dal’ouna Events\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Faizah Grootens: While You’re Here | Photograph: Courtesy Sjoerd Derine<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a special program to celebrate the reopening of Robert F. Wagner Jr. Park, the free annual Battery…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":31756,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,10929,26810,26811,26808,10785,18628,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,26809,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-31755","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-dance","10":"tag-dance-contemporary-and-experimental","11":"tag-event-type-performances","12":"tag-featured-dance-featured","13":"tag-good-for-good-for-locals","14":"tag-good-for-vibe-outdoors","15":"tag-new-york","16":"tag-new-york-city","17":"tag-newyork","18":"tag-newyorkcity","19":"tag-ny","20":"tag-nyc","21":"tag-price-free","22":"tag-united-states","23":"tag-united-states-of-america","24":"tag-unitedstates","25":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","26":"tag-us","27":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114781948993773143","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}