Volunteers will work with staff from Battery Dance Company to present the 29th Annual Downtown Dance Festival, a free roving event held each summer in Lower Manhattan parks, plazas and piers. The festival invites audiences to enjoy seven days of ethnic, classical, and contemporary dance performances from around the world. This year, the festival will take place at The Lawn at Battery Park and One New York Plaza, a venue new to the festival.

Dedicated and enthusiastic volunteers are needed in the weeks prior to the Festival for publicity and marketing campaigns (posting flyers and giving away postcards at restaurants, coffee shops, businesses and organizations around NYC).

Then, during the days of the Festival, volunteer ushers will greet audience members, hand out playbills and help with other various tasks, such as helping to set up and take down the stage, setting up chairs at One New York Plaza, or working with groups of children who are visiting for our special educational outreach segment of the festival. And you will have plenty of time to watch the performances, as well! Volunteers should be able to commit to at least one day for a two-hour block during the week of August 14-20.

Please contact Mirjam van der Ham, Festival Intern, for further information on the time slots available at intern@batterydance.org.