CUTTING LOOSE AT THE BATTERY
The Battery Dance Company, a mainstay of Lower Manhattan’s arts culture since it first blossomed in the mid-1970s, hosts it annual Downtown Dance Festival, beginning Sunday afternoon on Battery Park’s Great Lawn. The festival’s 32nd iteration features the ensembles Chapter Two, from Athens; Vendetta Mathea & Company, based in southern France; and Dancing Earth, based in Santa Fe, N.M., and San Francisco. They will appear alongside the New York troupes SLK Ballet, Limón Dance Company and the Battery Dance Company itself. Admission is free, and the festival runs through Thursday.
(Sunday at 1 p.m., Battery Park Great Lawn, State Street at Pearl Street, Lower Manhattan; 212-219-3910, batterydance.org.)
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Downtown Dance Festival (Sunday through Thursday) Battery Dance Company hosts the 32nd annual edition of its free, outdoor festival in Lower Manhattan, with a main stage in Battery Park. This year’s international roster includes the Spanish company La Intrusa Danza, Compagnie Vendetta Mathea of France, the José Limón Dance Company and Dancing Earth, an ensemble exploring Native American heritages. Thursday’s program, Erasing Borders, offers an array of classical Indian dance styles: Kathak, Odissi, Bharatanatyam and Mohiniyattam, which the dancer Vijayalakshmi uses to tell her version of “Swan Lake.” Starting at noon at various locations in Lower Manhattan; a full schedule is at batterydance.org; (212) 219-3910. (Burke)
