Battery Dance Company’s Downtown Dance Festival seeks a marketing intern.
Major responsibilities include:
   - Obtaining paid advertisements from local businesses in lower Manhattan for the Festival’s Playbill
   - Placing Festival Ads on online sources and blogs, and online public event calendars
   - Researching possibilities for placing Festival Ads both online and in print
   - Assist in poster/postcard distribution throughout lower Manhattan
 
Requirements:
   - Preferably a marketing major or minor at a local college
   - Familiar with lower Manhattan and transportation system
   - Enthusiastic, outgoing, and  well-spoken
   - Comfortable with making cold phone calls
   - Willing to approach local business managers in person
 
Internship scheduled to start the first week of April, with the option of stay through August.
Email Resume and Cover Letter to gabriella@batterydance.org

The Downtown Dance Festival is one of lower Manhattan’s most highly anticipated summer events. Initiated in 1982 by Battery Dance Company, the Festival has thrilled audiences in the hundreds of thousands and showcased great dance companies from around the world as well as the best New York City has to offer, all free-of-charge to the public. 

The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker and many foreign media outlets have accorded the DDF consistently excellent reviews and lavish features. As Battery Dance Company’s signature downtown community program, DDF has featured over 200 dance companies ranging in style from classical ballet to post-modern, Indian classical to Afro-Cuban. The Downtown Dance Festival is NYC’s longest-running dance festival.

The festival will be held this year from August 16th to 20th, 2015. 

For More information on the Downtown Dance Festival please look on our website:
http://batterydance.org/ddf_history.htm