This Sunday the weekly program, Dance Diplomacy with Jonathan, continues: This Sunday’s Dance Diplomacy Interview comes home to New York City with two women who have been catalysts for the dance world in very different ways. Life-long dancer Nancy Steele is a rare hybrid who combines…
This Sunday the weekly program, Dance Diplomacy with Jonathan, continues: The format of this coming Sunday’s Dance Diplomacy Interview has been divided into two parts, first providing the context of American cultural diplomacy in Africa from Patricia Ehrnman, a U.S. State Department official whose perspective…
This Sunday the weekly program, Dance Diplomacy with Jonathan, continues: The conversation on Sunday, May 10 brings viewers to the Far East, where two iconic figures in the world of dance opine on the past, present and future of their field with the perspectives of…
Inspired by Giving Tuesday Now, a national day of giving to support those responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, Battery Dance is giving back by contributing free virtual mindful movement sessions for any frontline health care worker during the month of May. The 15 minute sessions…
This Sunday the weekly program, Dance Diplomacy with Jonathan, continues: The conversation on Sunday, May 3, brings together one of Hungary’s leading avant-garde choreographers, whose artistic trajectory coincided with radical changes in the political and social life of his country, with a younger generation dance-maker…
\ This Sunday the weekly program, Dance Diplomacy with Jonathan, continues: On Sunday, April 26, 2020, at 9 a.m. and 12 noon EDT, on Battery Dance TV, Jonathan Hollander will interview three women who have played pivotal roles in supporting cross-cultural engagement between the…
On Sunday, April 19, Artist Talk returns once again to South Asia. Ambassador Sandeep Chakravorty, Indian Consul General in New York and two performers, dancer Pallavi Krishnan and elocutionist Samiul Islam Poluck, discuss the oeuvre of Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore. “Tagore was a Renaissance…
On Sunday, April 12, Battery Dance TV continues its weekly program, Dance Diplomacy with Jonathan. This week will feature an interview with Ellen B. Masi, Wini Nkinda and Carmen Nicole Smith followed by a screening of a dance piece that features hand-washing and other imagery…
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…
