Battery Dance Corporation

Battery Dance Corporation, doing business as Battery Dance Co, is a New York-based non-profit organization that delivers cultural diplomacy and arts education programming to the Department of State as a federal grant recipient, operating exclusively as a prime recipient with no federal contracts or subcontract exposure. The vendor's work centers on international dance education initiatives designed to advance U.S. foreign policy objectives through cultural exchange, youth engagement, and social cohesion programming in target regions.

Battery Dance operates as a tax-exempt non-profit and has served ten distinct federal agencies across 55 total awards, all held as prime recipient grants rather than contracts or sub-awards. The funding concentration is heavily concentrated within the Department of State, which accounts for 75% of recent awards across multiple regional bureaus. The Department of State Bureau of Public Affairs leads with 18 awards, followed by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (10 awards), the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs (6 awards), the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs (4 awards), and the Bureau of African Affairs (3 awards). All identified awards are project grants or cooperative agreements issued under the State Department's Public Diplomacy Programs framework (CFDA 19.040) and related cultural and educational assistance authorities.

Recent representative work includes a January 2026 National Endowment for the Arts project grant to support the Battery Dance Festival; a $201,998.72 Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs award (August 2023) to implement the "Dancing for Trust" initiative engaging 300 youth and up to 24 teachers in Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany to strengthen post-pandemic trust and unity across religious, ethnic, and socio-economic divides; a September 2023 Bureau of African Affairs grant supporting "Dancing to Connect" workshops in São Tomé with 100 youth participants and 10 teacher trainees; and a September 2023 Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs cooperative agreement funding "Dancing to Connect" workshops in Wuhan. Earlier work included a $117,805.62 Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs award (September 2021) delivering arts education programming across five Indonesian cities and a June 2022 Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs grant funding the U.S. Palestinian Dance Envoy Program.

Activity has been intermittent over the past five years — two awards in 2021, three in 2022, four in 2023, one in 2024, and one in 2026 — with only one award carrying an ultimate completion date within the next twenty-four months. Combined dollar obligations across all 55 awards total $2.6 million, reflecting the characteristic grant-funded scale of State Department cultural programming. Battery Dance's federal footprint is exclusively grant-based; the organization does not hold federal contracts, IDVs, BPAs, or GWACs and does not operate as a subcontractor to prime contractors.