For Immediate Release

BATTERY DANCE COMPANY - Battery Baltic Tour 2002

The Lower Manhattan-based Battery Dance Company, directed by choreographer Jonathan Hollander, announces its Baltic Tour 2002, with performances slated in 5 countries across Scandinavia and Eastern Europe. The Company of 6 dancers hailing from 5 countries comprises Tadej Brdnik, Virginie Mécène, Maurizio Nardi, Kevin Predmore, Mariella Rietschel, and Adrianna Thompson.

Highlights include performances in:

SWEDEN: Stockholm's 750th Anniversary Celebration Festival
NORWAY: Konserthus, Stavanger
ESTONIA: Tallinn Main Square; Rakvere City Festival
RUSSIA: OPEN LOOK Festival, St.Petersburg
POLAND: MALTA Festival, Poznan, Maly Theatre, Warszawa and The American Week Festival, Sandomierz, Poland


Each appearance represents a national debut for Battery Dance Company with the exception of the performances in Poland where the Company has visited three times previously in 1996, 1998 and 2000.

Battery's programs will be presented in two formats, with main-stage productions for the large concert halls and outdoor civic festivals, and the appropriately named SOLO PROJECT to be presented in alternative spaces such as art galleries, city halls and museums. The mainstage productions include Used Car Salesman (2000), the anyones ballet (1985), Mother Goose (2000) and Layapriya (1998), all choreographed by Jonathan Hollander.

In addition to main-stage performances and THE SOLO PROJECT, Battery will organize meetings with its overseas counterparts - artists and institutions - to prepare the ground for new artistic collaboration opportunities between the U.S. and the greater Baltic region.

Sponsors:

U.S. Embassies in Stockholm, Warszawa and Tallinn
U.S. Consulate General in St. Petersburg
The Trust for Mutual Understanding
Citibank - Sweden
Ogilvy P.R. Worldwide
SAS Scandinavian Airlines
Marriott Warsaw
Radisson SAS Hotel, Tallinn
KPMG - Poland
Pfizer - Poland
Multi-Event Communications - Poland

Roster of Activities:

Main Stage Performances
June 4 Stockholm's 750 Anniversary Festival, Stockholm, Sweden
June 9 Stavenger Konserthus, Stavanger, Norway
June 14 Von Krahl Theatre, Rakvere, Estonia
June 16 Main Square, Tallinn, Estonia
June 20 Maly Teatr, Warsaw, Poland
June 28, 29 MALTA Festival, Poznan, Poland
July 2 Tarnobrzeg, Poland
July 4 American Week Festival, Sandomierz, Poland
July 8 OPEN LOOK Festival, St. Petersburg, Russia
The Solo Project
June 5 Stockholm/Sweden
June 7 Stavanger/Norway
June 17 Tallinn/Estonia
June 22 Warsaw/Poland
June 25, 26 Poznan/Poland
July 3 Sandomierz/Poland
July 6 St. Petersburg/Russia
Workshops
June 8 Stavanger University
June 21 Dance Institute, Warsaw
June 23, 26 Dance and Music Conservatory, Poznan
July 1, 2 Dance School, Sandomierz
July 6, 7 Kannon Dance School, St. Petersburg
Meetings with Local Arts Communities
June 5 Meetings organized by the Swedish Dance Committee
June 7 Meeting with Carte Blanche, Norway
June 10, 11 & 12 Mini-symposium in Copenhagen, Denmark
June 17 Meetings in Tallinn, Estonia (co-organized with Priit Raud)
June 22 Mini-symposium in Warsaw, Poland
June 26 Meetings at Dance and Music Conservatory, Poznan, Poland
July 6, 7 Series of meetings organized in conjunction with Kannon Dance School
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