This summer, the free annual Battery Dance Festival moves from its usual perch at Robert F. Wagner Park (which is currently being reconstructed) to a spot on the North Esplanade of Rockefeller Park. But the week-long event still offers a chance to see dozens of companies from around the world, performing outdoors near the sparkling water at sunset—or, if you can't make it in person, to stream the performances live online.
The lineup for the 42nd edition features multiple U.S. or world premieres, and the participating artists include visitors from India, Indonesia, Romania, Canada, Norway and Curaçao. Among the programs are slates devoted to young choreographers and India Independence Day. All seven shows are general admission, and there's a rain date on Saturday, August 19.
Below is a full schedule of the artists and companies that will be performing. Visit the festival's website for additional details.
Battery Dance Festival (2022) | Photograph: Courtesy Steven Pisano
Saturday, August 12 (Young Voices in Dance):
The Bowery Mission
Marley Poku-Kankam, All Four
Aliyah Banerjee & Shashank Iswara, Taraana
Dareon Blowe, How Do Five Parts Construct a Whole?
Mateo Vidals, There Is Always Something Happening
Luke Biddinger, La Vie En Rose
Cameron Kay, Interface
Samanvita Kasthuri, Krtaghna
Micah Sell, Outline
Queensborough Community College, Discovering
Willem Sadler, Soullessly Flying
Tulia Marshall, A fraction of a true self
Joanne Hwang, Static State of Perfection
Sunday, August 13:
Batara Gowa, Lebonna
Battery Dance, A Certain Mood
Reuel Rogers, Power
Keturah Stephen, A Yearning Desire
Nu-World Contemporary Danse Theatre, The Called and The Chosen
Trainor Dance Inc., Courante
IMGE Dance, (no)man
Monday, August 14:
Sole Defined, Sole Defined Live
Erv Works Dance, Veiled From the Womb
Jiemin Yang, Here We Root (Excerpt)
Teodora Velescu and Lari Giorgescu, Special People
Batara Gowa, Lebonna
Fanike! African Dance Troupe, Uplifted!
Tuesday, August 15 (India Independence Day):
Rudrakshya Foundation, Kali Krishna
Durgesh Gangani, The Legacy
Amarnath Ghosh, Maragatha Manimaya
Battery Dance Festival (2022) | Photograph: Courtesy Steven Pisano
Wednesday, August 16:
Julian Donahue Dance, Displacement
Citadel + Compagnie, Soudain l'hiver dernier
Tabanka Dance Ensemble, Progress
Teodora Velescu and Lari Giorgescu, Special People
Jerron Herman, Lax
Carolyn Dorfman Dance, NOW
Dancers Unlimited, Edible Tales (Excerpts): Soul Food and Kanaloa
Thursday, August 17 (In Memoriam: Jennifer Muller and Tribute to Turn of the 20th Century American Modern Dance Pioneers)
Jennifer Muller/The Works, Miserere Nobis
Dances by Isadora, Isadora Duncan: Under a New Sky
Time Lapse Dance, American Elm and Piece for a Northern Sky
Denishawn, Denishawn (Excerpts)
Lori Belilove/The Isadora Duncan Dance Company, Tribute to Ukraine
Friday, August 18:
Adriana Ogle & Toru Sakuragi, Softly as in a Morning Glow
Amanda Treiber, Wind-Up
Bruce Wood Dance, In My Your Head
Citadel + Compagnie, Soudain l'hiver dernier
Boca Tuya, Like Those Playground Kids at Midnight
Tabanka Dance Ensemble, Progress
Reuel Rogers, Power
Battery Dance, The Wind in the Olive Grove
Battery Dance Festival (2022) | Photograph: Courtesy Phil Mahabeer