DDF-2013 Closing Party & Reception: You are Invited!

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Elena Ryabova

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Aug 6, 2013, 2:50:56 PM8/6/13

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Dear fellow ALIers,

My summer festival is about to start this weekend and I will be thrilled to see you there. Come and bring your friends & families - all the events are free, outdoors and open to the public.

Besides, I want to invite you to the festival's closing reception and performance. (This one is by invitation only). If you have nothing else to do on Friday August 16, come to Dance New Amsterdam to enjoy some dance and drinks.

Let me know if you are interested. The details are below.

Best,

Lena

The 32nd Annual

Downtown Dance Festival

Closing Performance and Reception

Join Us Friday, August 16th!

Vendetta Mathea & Co. (Photo by Loha)

You are cordially invited to attend

THE CLOSING EVENT

for

The 32nd Annual Downtown Dance Festival

Dance New Amsterdam Theater

6.30pm

We are thrilled to present
Tim Casson of The Dance WE Made (UK)
Vendetta Mathea & Co (France), and
Battery Dance Company.
The performance will be followed by a light reception.

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First launched in 1982, the Downtown Dance Festival kicks off with its first performance at Battery Park on Sunday, August 11th at 1pm. Weekday afternoon performances will follow at several locations downtown. The festival will conclude with a special indoor performance for our invited guests.

Performers

Tim Casson, The Dance WE Made

Photo by Alisa Boanta

Tim Casson is a London-based dancer best known for performing internationally with critically acclaimed Sadler's Wells Associate Jasmin Vardimon Company. The Dance WE Made is a record breaking interactive dance project. It will roam the public spaces of New York City, inviting members of the public to devise original choreography. The unique, final dance and video footage of the newly created work will be presented at DNA as The Dance NYC Made!

Vendetta Mathea & Co.

Photo by Lorah

Originally from Detroit, Vendetta Mathea has lived in France for the last 30 years. She has studied at Juilliard School, Alvin Ailey and the Dance Theater of Harlem. She has worked with such choreographers as Katherine Dunham, Louis Falco, Jennifer Muller and Paul Taylor. The company will perform Mathea's highly charged, visceral Homme Animal, a work for four dancers examining the foundations of human nature.

Battery Dance Company

Photo by Darial Sneed

Founded in the Financial District by Jonathan Hollander in 1976, Battery Dance Company is a community-spirited presenter of the free annual Downtown Dance Festival, introducing New Yorkers to over 200 dance companies in more than 30 years. Battery Dance Company has produced nearly 100 original dance works in collaboration with a diverse array of composers and designers, and its outstanding dancers. BDC is among America's foremost cultural ambassadors with performances and workshops in

60 countries on 5 continents.

The Downtown Dance Festival is presented by

Battery Dance Company

which thanks its festival supporters:

The Battery Conservancy
The National Museum of the American Indian

Capezio Ballet Makers Foundation

ConEdison

Dance New Amsterdam

Goldman Sachs

Moody's Corporation

City of New York Parks & Recreation

New York State Council on the Arts