Battery Dance is accepting purposes for the forty fifth Annual Battery Dance Pageant, with free performances on August 11-16, 2026. Functions have to be submitted on-line right here. The competition software will likely be reside via February 5, 2026.
As one in all America’s foremost cultural ambassadors, Battery Dance connects the world via dance, pursuing creative excellence and social relevance by creating vibrant new works, acting on international phases, presenting dance in public areas, supporting the dance subject, and instructing folks of all ages with specific concentrate on deprived communities and areas of battle. The corporate enriches New York Metropolis’s cultural life, extends programming throughout the U.S., and fosters worldwide alternate, having labored in 70 international locations thus far.
New York Metropolis’s longest-running free public dance competition, the Battery Dance Pageant was launched by the corporate in 1982 (initially because the Downtown Dance Pageant) to interact its native decrease Manhattan neighborhood. Held in opposition to the beautiful backdrop of the Hudson River at sundown in Robert F. Wagner Jr. Park, it attracts roughly 1,500 in-person attendees every evening. The competition can be livestreamed, reaching 1000’s of viewers worldwide.
The Battery Dance Pageant gives skilled dancers and choreographers in any style a exceptional platform to current authentic works of excessive creative benefit in an accessible, open-air setting. Previous performers have included the Isadora Duncan Dance Firm, New York Theatre Ballet, Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana, Citadel + Compagnie, Dancing Earth Indigenous Dance Firm, SOLE Outlined, and Jamal Jackson Dance Firm, alongside main ensembles from Africa, South Asia, East Asia, Europe, South America, and the Caribbean.
For extra info and to use, go to https://batterydance.org/apply/.
