See Free Dance Downtown - The Battery Dance Festival showcases genres from around the globe
The Battery Dance Festival showcases genres from around the globe---Although the Financial District traditionally inspires images of affluence not the performing arts, Battery Dance founder Jonathan Hollander had a different vision. For the choreographer, the neighborhood was "a no-brainer," he says. "When we opened in 1976, we were located on Stone Street south of Wall Street, a part of New York where there were no …