"Hollander shares with Paul Taylor and Martha Graham an uncanny ability to create a tongue-in-cheek parody of distinctly American characters. Like Pavlova, Hollander chose to bring his dances to Sri Lanka, Poland, Hungary, Finland and India. Hollander has chosen his own path and retained the values of his generation community, honesty, innovation and an openness to experience."
Vanessa Paige-Swanson
The Dance Insider
October 20, 2000
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Battery Dance Company has brought 70 dances to the world's stages since its inception in 1976, choreographed by artistic director Jonathan Hollander. Battery's dances have been presented in mainstage theaters, concert halls, and festivals in a dozen countries on three continents as well as in theaters, museums, universities, schools, studios and alternative spaces across the U.S.
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Battery's repertoire ranges from ensemble works to solos, most often set to contemporary scores in a multitude of genres. Music is the driving and consistent force behind Hollander's choreography, and his relationships with composers from the U.S., Europe and South Asia have inspired the creation of dozens of collaborative works.
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Battery Dance Company is a laboratory for the research and development of new choreography. Visit the Works in Progress section of our website in order to share in the process of inspiration and inquiry that characterizes Battery's artistic evolution.
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Chart the Company's artistic history as you browse the Battery's archive of dance works. Here, over the next few months, you will find early works, such as 'Die Kunst der Fuge' and the 'Thirteen Winds', set to the Bach and Mozart masterworks of the same names, as well as 'Last Dance', 'At the Fair', 'Life Study', 'Squint' and 'The Travelers', to scores by American composers Andrew Violette, Andrew Thomas, Anthony Korf, Lukas Foss and Alex Tobias.
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