Jonathan Hollander (Choreographer, Artistic Director, Battery Dance Company) founded Battery Dance Company in lower Manhattan in 1976, the Downtown Dance Festival in 1981, and co-founded the Indo-American Arts Council in 2000. He has choreographed nearly 100 works that have been presented across the U.S. and in Europe, Middle East, Africa, Asia and Australia on tours often sponsored by the U.S. State Department. His awards include the Silver Mask of the Silesian Dance Theatre (Poland), a National Endowment for the Arts Choreography Fellowship, USable Award (Germany) and Arts & Business Council’s Encore Award. Originally a student of the piano, Hollander considers his collaborations with musicians and composers to be an essential element of his work in dance. On a tour of India in 1994, he first heard Tagore’s songs. Upon returning to the U.S., he met the Chatterjees who had recently settled in New York. Together, they created an evening-length work, Songs of Tagore, that was premiered at the Florence Gould Hall in New York in 1995. Subsequent performances took place in the U.S., Poland and on a 17-city South Asia Tour in 1997 during the celebration of India’s 50th year of Independence. Squint was created after Hollander met composer Lukas Foss in the early 1990’s. The work has been restaged especially for the Monadnock Music Festival.