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Rutkay Ozpinar at Battery Dance Festival
Rehearsal of “Frontiers”
Battery Dance Festival
Trailer of Something about Something.
Sun, Aug 11 - Sat, Aug 17 2024
Rockefeller Park, 75 River Terrace, New York City
The Battery Dance Festival is New York City’s longest-running public dance festival, taking place each summer in downtown Manhattan. This year’s festival will festival features a special FUTURE 400 program with Dutch choreographer Rutkay Özpinar on August 16, 2024,
Dutch choreographer Rutkay Özpinar launches a world première of “Frontiers”, a new work commissioned by Battery Dance and featuring the company’s dancers, and sharing the stage that same evening with indigenous and immigrant dance companies including Marie Poncé.
Read our Q&A with Rutkay Özpinar about the inspiration for “Frontiers” here.
In Something about Something by Rutkay Özpinar, three dancers will share a story leaving everything up to the audience’s perception and imagination. What does a creation say and what is the message behind it? Dance and a creation speak for themselves as art, and the magic lies in the wonder that cannot be expressed in words.
See the full Battery Dance Festival program here.