By Jonathan Hollander February 26, 2020 Part 2 of 3 What began as a cultural immersion during the summer of my 16th year, living with a family in Bombay as an exchange student, ballooned into a life-long quest with each plateau reached revealing yet another…
By Jonathan Hollander February 17th, 2020 Part 1 of 3 An artist may feel a sense of completion when the last dab of paint dries and the canvas is framed and hanging on the wall of a gallery. Composers likely feel the same way when…
Adil Qais Adil Faraj Al-Jaf AKA ADEL EURO March 18, 1993 – July 3, 2016 Battery Dance mourns the loss of its beloved Iraqi protégé Adel Euro, a dancer, choreographer, rapper, filmmaker, coach and all-around extraordinary human being. In the aftermath of the Baghdad bombing that took the…
By Jonathan Hollander, June 3, 2016 Building on a relationship dating back to 2005, Battery Dance has seen unprecedented evolution on multiple prongs with dance artists of Malaysia. The symbiotic relationship between Ramli Ibrahim and Sutra Dance Theatre and Battery Dance is well known and…
By Jonathan Hollander April 6, 2016 April, 1991 – I am in Ahmedabad, India, on a Fulbright grant, choreographing an evening-length work on Mallika Sarabhai and dancers from her acclaimed company, Darpana, in costumes designed by Sandhya Raman. After a jubilant performance on the grounds…
