WHITE WAVE Dance celebrates the 23 Anniversary season of the DUMBO Dance Festival (DDF) with a GALA Opening that heralds the most anticipated four-day festival of contemporary dance in the greater New York City region. Committed to developing dance as an important art form, WHITE WAVE scours the globe in search of the most innovative of today's dance makers, both emerging and established, and brings them to Brooklyn for one extended weekend. For four nights and three days, dance lovers will experience a veritable cornucopia of the best of contemporary dance. DDF is committed to advancing the best of dance by providing on-stage and behind-the-scenes opportunities for 50 dance troupes from across America and around the globe, allowing audiences to experience, first-hand, the incomparable vitality of the New York dance scene.

GALA Opening Night: June 27 at 6:30PM

The 2024 DUMBO DANCE FESTIVAL will kick off with WHITE WAVE’s Opening Night GALA Celebration on Thursday, June 27th at 6:30 pm.

WHITE WAVE Dance is proud to honor Joan Finkelstein and John Ryan!

Joan Finkelstein, with deep appreciation for her tireless support of the Art of Dance in all of its many dazzling forms, especially through her work at the amazing Harkness Foundation for Dance, we salute Joan's tireless dedication to the creative future and development of Dance.

John Ryan, by championing Ms. Kim’s artistic vision through his vital philanthropic support, enables WHITE WAVE Dance to continuously find, nurture and present thousands of emerging and eminent artists.

Opening remarks will be followed by five stunning contemporary dance troupes: Buglisi Dance Theatre, Yoshiko Chuma & The School Of Hard Knocks, ZviDance, Company | E, and WHITE WAVE Young Soon Kim Dance Company.

Performance Schedule:

Gala Opening Night

Thursday, June 27 @ 6:30 PM

- Buglisi Dance Theatre, NY
- Yoshiko Chuma & The School Of Hard Knocks, NY
- ZviDance, NY
- Company | E, DC
- WHITE WAVE Young Soon Kim Dance Company, NY
 
Friday, June 28 @ 7 PM

- Alexander Hille, MN
- David P. France Dance Company, Switzerland
- X&Y Quadrant Dance Company, NY
- Company | E, DC
- Michiko Kiyofuji, Japan
- O'Toole & Dance, NC
- Tsiambwom M. Akuchu, CA
- Mending Dance Theater, Taiwan
 
Saturday, June 29 @ 4 PM

- Columbia Repertory Dance Company, SC
- McKoy Dance Project || MDP, NY
- E-Danza, IA
- Tina Croll + Company, NY
- Gianna Burright, CA
- David P. France Dance Company, Switzerland
- Hoon Dance Company, Korea
- TheCo, Mexico

Saturday, June 29 @ 6 PM

- Alison Cook Beatty Dance, NY
- Elizabeth Shea Dance, IN
- Amos Pinhasi, NY
- Natya Anubhava, NY
- Mei Yamanaka Works, Japan
- Mark Bankin Dance Theater, NY
- OR Dance, NJ
- WHITE WAVE Young Soon Kim Dance Company, NY
 
Sunday, June 30 @ 4 PM

- Emilio Castellón Dance Company, CA
- BAIRA MVMNT PHLOSPHY, TX
- Synergy Dance Collective, NY
- ArtLab J, MI
- Ramona Sekulovic, Germany
- American Swiss Ballet Co, NY
- East by North Dance Theatre, NY
- Natalia Sanchez, NY

GRAND FINALE

Sunday, June 30 @ 6 PM

- Ali Pfleger and Artists, NY
- Cori Marquis + the Nines [IX], NY
- Lopez & Dancers, NY
- Hoon Dance Company, Korea
- Freespace Dance, NJ
- Ara Dance Project, NY
- WHITE WAVE Young Soon Kim Dance Company, NY

Date:
June 27-30, 2024

Location:
Mark Morris Dance Center,
James and Martha Duffy Performance Space,
3 Lafayette Avenue,
Brooklyn, NY 11217.

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