Battery Dance 

Founded in 1976 by Artistic Director Jonathan Hollander, Battery Dance is a creative catalyst with a dual commitment to exceptional artistry and social impact. We aspire to change lives through dance by creating new works, performing on the world’s stages, presenting dance in public spaces, and teaching people of all ages with special attention to the disadvantaged. The Company produces the free, annual Battery Dance Festival (August 12-19, 2023) in Lower Manhattan’s Rockefeller Park. Through its award-winning Dancing to Connect workshops, Battery uses dance as a tool for building social cohesion and resolving conflict; Dancing to Connect has transformed lives in NYC public schools and in 70 countries around the world. The Company’s Tribeca studios offer affordable rehearsal space to 300 artists each year.

Yoshiko Chuma

Yoshiko Chuma (conceptual artist, choreographer/artistic director of The School of Hard Knocks) has been a firebrand in the post-modern dance scene of New York City since the 1980s, has been consistently producing thought-provoking work that is neither dance nor theater nor film nor any other pre-determined category. She is an artist on her own journey, a path that has taken her to over 40 “out of the way” countries and collected over 2000 artists, thinkers and collaborators of every genre since establishing The School of Hard Knocks in 1980. 

Buglisi Dance Theatre

The award-winning Buglisi Dance Theatre is acclaimed for multi-cultural, socially-relevant dances on the human condition that reveal the heroic spirit, strengths and vulnerabilities of humanity. Founded in 1993 by Artistic Director Jacqulyn Buglisi, and Capucilli, Dakin and Foreman, former Principal Dancers of the Martha Graham Dance Co., BDT has been commissioned and has performed NYC seasons at The Joyce Theater, Chelsea Factory, New York Live Arts, Ailey Citigroup Theater; tours across the U.S. from Jacob’s Pillow to the Vail International Dance Festival; and abroad in Australia, Czech Republic, Mexico, Israel, and Italy. In partnership with Lincoln Center, BDT presents the Table of Silence Project 9/11, a multi-cultural performance ritual and call to action for peace, and streamed live around the globe.

Jennifer Muller/The Works

Jennifer Muller/The Works (JMTW) was founded in 1974 to support the vision and creativity of Jennifer Muller and to create new work that reached the widest audience possible by performing and touring the repertory in NYC, the US, and abroad. A byword for diversity, JMTW performs work that celebrates the human spirit with the belief that dance can promote cross-cultural understanding and act as a catalyst for positive change. 

WHITE WAVE Dance 

Founded by Korean-born Young Soon Kim in 1988, the WHITE WAVE Young Soon Kim Dance Company is dedicated to inspiring audiences through multi-dimensional dance productions reflecting themes and philosophies both modern and timeless. We constantly strive to be a potent stimulus for progress and evolution within the dance/arts world. By producing dance concerts, festivals, and educational activities, WHITE WAVE Dance provides both nascent and seasoned choreographers / companies with an encouraging environment where they can create, collaborate, and present new works in the undisputed capital of world dance, New York City.