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Robert Battle was born on August 28, 1972.
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Artistic Director of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater from 2011 until the present.
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Graduated from Juilliard School of Arts in 1994.
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He left Parsons in 2001 to start his own troupe, the Battle Dance Company.
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Robert Battle’s association with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater began in 1999 when he was commissioned to create a dance for the Ailey II troupe.
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In 2005 he was honored as a Master of African American Choreography by the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and in 2007 he received the prestigious Statue Award of the Princess Grace Foundation-USA.
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He danced with The Parsons Dance Company from 1994 to 2001, and also set his choreography on that company starting in 1998.
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Mr. Battle then founded his own Battleworks Dance Company, which made its debut in 2002 in Düsseldorf, Germany, as the U.S. representative to the World Dance Alliance’s Global Assembly.