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| WHITE WAVE Dance
presents The 2025 DUMBO DANCE FESTIVAL: PRESENTING FOUR DAYS OF DANCE BY 45 COMPANIES FROM AROUND THE WORLD The Mark O’Donnell Theater 160 Schermerhorn St, Brooklyn, NY 11201 June 26 – 6:30pm Gala Opening Night June 27-29 – Festival Performances |
PLEASE JOIN US:
June 26, 2025 6:30PM – Gala Opening Night
Friday, June 27, 2025 at 7PM
Saturday, June 28, 2025 at 4PM
Saturday, June 28, 2025 at 6PM
Sunday, June 29, 2025 at 4PM
Sunday, June 29, 2025 at 6PM – Grand Finale
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Brooklyn, NY – WHITE WAVE Dance proudly announces the 24th Anniversary Season of the DUMBO Dance Festival (DDF), a dynamic four-day event showcasing 45 cutting-edge dance companies from New York and around the world. The festival kicks off on Thursday, June 26, with a Gala Opening Night, setting the stage for an exhilarating weekend of contemporary dance at The Mark O’Donnell Theater.
Dedicated to pushing the boundaries of dance as an art form, WHITE WAVE scours the globe for today’s most innovative choreographers—emerging and established—bringing them together in Brooklyn for an immersive celebration of movement. Over the course of four days, audiences will experience a rich and diverse lineup of performances, highlighting the vibrancy and creative excellence of the New York dance scene and beyond.
“This is a festival about opportunities,” says Young Soon Kim, Artistic Director of White Wave Dance. “The DUMBO Dance Festival provides a platform for over 400 performing artists to showcase their work while offering New York audiences access to an extraordinary range of excellent and visionary choreography at an affordable price.”
GALA Opening Night: June 26 at 6:30PM
The 2025 DUMBO DANCE FESTIVAL will kick off with WHITE WAVE’s Opening Night GALA Celebration on Thursday, June 26th at 6:30PM.
At our Gala, we will be honoring two remarkable individuals who have made significant contributions to WHITE WAVE DANCE and the greater dance community:
Wendy Perron, esteemed dance critic, writer, and advocate for the arts, whose insightful voice and decades of dedication have shaped and uplifted the field of contemporary dance.
Howard Schranz, former Chairman of WHITE WAVE’s Board of Directors, whose steadfast leadership, generosity, and unwavering support have been instrumental in sustaining and growing our organization’s mission. We are thrilled to celebrate their lasting impact on our company and the dance world at large!
Opening remarks will be followed by five stunning contemporary dance troupes: spoken movement (United Kingdom), Obremski/Works (NY), Motion Tribe (Korea), Bruce McCormick (CA), Katia Raj (NY), WHITE WAVE Young Soon Kim Dance Company.
After the performances, the audience can enjoy an open bar, food, and music to feed the soul, as well as a fabulous raffle including gourmet wine baskets, “Dinner for Two” at local DUMBO eateries, and much more!
Festival tickets: $30 in advance / $35 at door / $25 students & seniors.
GALA Tickets are $100 and $250 (VIP seating) per person; all proceeds raised will directly offset WHITE WAVE’s production costs for our 2025/26 Season.
GALA & Festival Tickets can be purchased at
https://whitewavedance.networkforgood.com/events/85248-2025-dumbo-dance-festival
Performance Schedule and more info at https://www.whitewavedance.org
Questions? Please contact WHITE WAVE at wwyskdc@gmail.com or call at 718-855-8822!
2025 DDF features 45 contemporary dance troupes combining over 400 artists who will present solo, chamber, and full-scale works. Dancers from across the United States, and internationally from France, United Kingdom, Germany, Mexico, Republic of Congo, and Korea will join the New York’s active dance community to offer the full range of new directions in dance in the 21st century.
Special Performance Opportunities:
This year at the 2025 DUMBO Dance Festival, White Wave Dance is pleased to announce we will be selecting TWO outstanding companies to have the opportunity to perform at the 2026 New Dance Festival in South Korea, and the 2026 Detroit City Dance Festival. Both of these highly regarded festivals will provide companies with another fantastic opportunity for further exposure, promotion and performance. All companies participating in this year’s festival will be carefully considered and will be notified after the festival.
In this anniversary year, the roster of companies includes:
Bruce McCormick, Olivares Dance Company, Waeli Wang, Vitality [the company], Twigs + Co, Ericka Squire//The Dance Company, Giovanni Castellon, Compagnie La Torrefaction, Company KANE, Carlos Diaz, Chris Johnson Dance, Motion Tribe, KAIROS Dance Theater, Spero Dance, TheCo, Smutek Dance, June’s Creative Expressions, New Name Collective, moe-tion dance theater, Jayde Spiegel, Alison Cook Beatty Dance, Suzzanne Ponomarenko Dance, The Brooklyn Dance Ensemble, Julia Ciesielska, Obremski/Works, Amos Pinhasi, Sokolow Theatre/Dance Ensemble, E-Danza, BK Dance Project, Jaryd Farcon & Co., Sophia Perone, Rae Perry, Mark Bankin, Omnivore Dance, Lauren Mortimer, Nolan Dance Collective, Association Culturelle La Lumiere, Chapman Dance Houston, spoken movement UK, KWAM Collective, dance | Estrada, Fluxus Haus Inc.
In our commitment to presenting dance for all, the 24th Annual DUMBO Dance Festival is proud to announce the following events in our exciting 2025 program:
Grand Finale: Sunday, June 29th 6PM
For the Festival Grand Finale, eight companies will present works, including:
Alison Cook Beatty Dance, Ericka Squire//The Dance Company, Julia Ciesielska, New Name Collective, KAIROS Dance Theater, Twigs + Co, Suzzanne Ponomarenko Dance, WHITE WAVE Dance.
2025 DUMBO DANCE FESTIVAL Performance Schedule:
GALA Opening Night:
June 26 @ 6:30PM
- spoken movement, United Kingdom
- Obremski/Works, NY
- Motion Tribe, Korea
- Bruce McCormick, CA
- Katia Raj, NY
- WHITE WAVE Dance, NY
Friday, June 27 @ 7PM
- Rae Perry, NY
- Fluxus Haus Inc., VA
- Bruce McCormick, CA
- Giovanni Castellon, FL
- Spero Dance, MA
- Lauren Mortimer, PA
- Waeli Wang, CA
- Association Culturelle La Lumiere, Republic of Congo
Saturday, June 28 @ 4PM
- KWAM Collective, UK
- Omnivore Dance, OH
- Olivares Dance Company, CA
- Amos Pinhasi, NY
- Chris Johnson Dance, IL
- Sokolow Theatre/Dance Ensemble, NY
- Nolan Dance Collective, PA
- TheCo, Mexico
Saturday, June 28 @ 6PM
- Jayde Spiegel, NV
- Smutek Dance, MI
- The Brooklyn Dance Ensemble, NY
- June’s Creative Expressions, MI
- BK Dance Project, NY
- Chapman Dance Houston, TX
- moe-tion dance theater, NJ
- WHITE WAVE Dance, NY
Sunday, June 29 @ 4PM
- Estrada Dance, UT
- E-Danza, NY
- Jaryd Farcon & Co., NY
- Sophia Perone, NY
- Julia Ciesielska, NY
- Motion Tribe, Korea
- Mark Bankin, NY
- Vitality [the company], CO
GRAND FINALE
Sunday, June 29 @ 6PM
- Alison Cook Beatty Dance, NY
- Ericka Squire//The Dance Company, Fl
- New Name Collective, NJ
- KAIROS Dance Theater, MA
- Twigs + Co, CO
- Suzzanne Ponomarenko Dance, NY
- WHITE WAVE Dance, NY
For Artists BIO and more info, please visit www.whitewavedance.org.
ABOUT WHITE WAVE
Formed in 1988, WHITE WAVE Young Soon Kim Dance Company (WHITE WAVE) strives to inspire audiences through multi-dimensional dance productions reflecting themes and philosophies both modern and timeless. Our mission is to be a potent stimulus for change and expansion of the dance/arts world through the production of dance concerts, classes, residencies, and education. Artistic Director Young Soon Kim’s vision is expansive, challenging the threshold of dance, music, theater and visual art, surging forward to create new possibilities. Ms. Kim creates works of vision and movement language in reverence and awe of novelty that challenge and broaden the boundaries of dance. We provide both emerging and established choreographers/companies with a NYC venue where they can congregate, create, rehearse and present new dance works through our festivals.
WHITE WAVE created DDF in 2001 in response to the dance community’s need for performance opportunities that would not only present, but also produce, the work of rising choreographers at minimal expense for the artist. The festival is now recognized as New York’s most prestigious gathering of pioneering choreography, encouraging experimentation, creativity, and originality.
To date, WHITE WAVE Dance has proudly presented over 3,800 choreographers/dance companies and over 26,500 performers to a total of more than 92K audience members.
More info at www.whitewavedance.org.
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Young Soon Kim, Artistic Director of WHITE WAVE Dance, is a recipient of the 2023 Bessies Angel Honoree Award, and is a nationally and internationally acclaimed choreographer, whose work has been hailed for its exhilarating, visually stunning, and emotionally rich phrases and textures.
In addition to her role as a performer and Artistic Director, Ms. Kim created a series of dance festivals soon after inaugurating the WHITE WAVE John Ryan Theater in DUMBO, Brooklyn, in 2001.
She has since become one of the most recognized producers/curators in New York City. Ms. Kim has also served as a juror for New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in 2006 and for the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council in 2014.
After the World première at the 2017 La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival, WHITE WAVE Dance’s Canadian première of “iyouuswe” (read as I-You-Us-We-two) at the 2018 Vancouver International Dance Festival was a resounding success! WHITE WAVE presented “Eternal NOW” at our enormously successful 2019 tour to Korea and China. In Gwangju, Korea, we performed at a special event at the Asian Cultural Center, one of the
most prestigious arts complexes in all of Asia. There we participated at the Opening Celebration of the 2019 FINA World Championship Masters’ Games, a sporting event that rivals the Olympics. Following that, we flew
to China to perform at the Ningbo Cultural Plaza, as part of a China-US Cultural Exchange program. Dazzled sold-out audiences greeted us at every performance!
During the Summer/Fall 2021, Young Soon Kim continually created “iyouuswe II, A Dance Film” and a stage version of the production. iyouuswe II (I-You-Us-We-Two), A Dance Film was selected as finalist for the 2022 Cannes International Film Festival, Paris International Short Festival, Vancouver Independent Film Festival and an OFFICIAL SELECTION at the 2021 London International Short Film Festival, Espoo Digi-Dance International Film Festival (Finland) and Experimental, Dance, Music Film Festival (Canada).
“There are people who simply have a lot of energy, and the Korean-born choreographer Young Soon Kim is clearly one of them.” – Roslyn Sulcas, The New York Times
Please visit www.whitewavedance.org for more information about the
OPENING NIGHT GALA and DUMBO Dance Festival.
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THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS
WHITE WAVE’s programs are supported, in part, by public funds from The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, New York State Council on the Arts, The New York Community Trust, Dance/NYC’s Coronavirus Dance Relief Fund, Howard Gilman Foundation, Harkness Foundation for Dance, New York City Artist Corps, Mosaic Network & Fund, Grace Charity Foundation Inc., Arnhold Foundation Inc., JOHN RYAN, and Individual Arts Supporters like you.
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