2026 DUMBO DANCE FESTIVAL
April 10, 2026 @ 12:15AM — June 28, 2026 @ 8:00PM Eastern Time (US & Canada) Add to Calendar
Taylor Dance East Theater: 551 Grand Street New York, NY 10002 Get Directions
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WHITE WAVE Dance presents The 2026 DUMBO DANCE FESTIVAL: A THREE-DAY SPECTACULAR PRESENTING 45 COMPANIES FROM NEW YORK & AROUND THE WORLD
On Thursday, June 26th, WHITE WAVE Dance celebrates our 25th 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 Manhattan for one extended weekend. For three nights and 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 35 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 26 at 6:30PM
This year WHITE WAVE Young Soon Kim Dance Company celebrates 38th Anniversary!
The 2026 DUMBO DANCE FESTIVAL will kick off with WHITE WAVE’s Opening Night GALA Celebration on Thursday, June 26th at 6:30PM.
Opening remarks will be followed by five stunning contemporary dance troupes:
Carolyn Dorfman Dance, yoshiko chuma and the school of hard knocks, Buglisi Dance Theatre, Jennifer Muller/The Works and WHITE WAVE DANCE and more.
After the performances the audience will enjoy a reception with a buffet dinner of fine Korean cuisine and a fabulous raffle (including gourmet wine baskets, “Dinner for Two” at local DUMBO eateries, and much more)!
And music to feed your soul, experience what it means to belong at the WHITE WAVE Gala 2026 Party!
More info at www.whitewavedance.org
2026 DDF features 35 contemporary dance troupes combining over 200 artists who will present solo, chamber, and full-scale works. Dancers from across the United States, and internationally from China, Hungary, Korea and the United Kingdom will join the New York’s active dance community to offer the full range of new directions in dance in the 21st century.
Questions? Please contact WHITE WAVE at ww2026ddf@gmail.com or call at 718-855-8822!