Battery Dance Company performs “I’ll Take You There” featuring the music of Polarity/1 as part of the 26th Annual Downtown Dance Festival

Battery Dance Company, among New York City’s foremost cultural ambassadors, performed music from NY-based composer and recording artist Polarity/1 as part of the 26th Annual Downtown Dance Festival. For the 26th year in a row, the Downtown Dance Festival provided a unique opportunity for professional dancers and choreographers as well as emerging dancers and choreographers to present original works of high artistic merit.

Battery Dance Company featured four tracks from Polarity/1’s albums ‘Speechless’ and ‘Prettier Than You’ during the “I’ll Take You There” performance held on Saturday, August 25th at Battery Park. This follows four additional compositions by Polar choreographed earlier this year by the Company. He has also served as Music Supervisor, scored and wrote songs for the film In Debt We Trust, directed by Danny Schechter and has just completed work another film for Schechter.

The music of Polarity/1 is exactly what the name suggests: conjoined opposites – a mash-up of new: cutting edge electronica/hip hop/nu-jazz and old: roots music of America (blues, funk, country, early jazz), Brazil (samba, pagode, etc.) and West African groove science.”

Polarity/1 is perhaps best known for his political songs which are a regular feature of Amy Goodman’s globally syndicated Democracy Now, NPR and many other politics-oriented broadcasts, used in college courses on media and licensed for use in documentaries.

Polarity/1 – www.polarity1.com