2023 DUMBO DANCE FESTIVAL

WHITE WAVE Dance presents

The 2023 DUMBO DANCE FESTIVAL: A FOUR-DAY SPECTACULAR PRESENTING 55 COMPANIES FROM NEW YORK & AROUND THE WORLD

On Thursday, June 22nd, WHITE WAVE Dance celebrates our 22^nd 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 55 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 22 at 7PM

This year WHITE WAVE Young Soon Kim Dance Company celebrates 35th Anniversary!

The 2023 DUMBO DANCE FESTIVAL will kick off with WHITE WAVE’s Opening Night GALA Celebration on Thursday, June 22nd at 7:00 pm. The evening will be hosted by Jessica and Carmine Marinaro, Co-Chairs, Gala Host Committee.

WHITE WAVE Dance will be honoring Jennifer Muller, she was a seminal creative influence for over 50 years, performing for José Limón and Louis Falco, launching her own company, Jennifer Muller/The Works, and building JMTW to such renowned success that it was dubbed the “American ambassador of dance” by The NY Times after countless international tours, and Danni Gee, Former Principal Dancer with Philadanco and Alvin Ailey, and current Director of Programming for The Joyce Theater who has championed and supported WHITE WAVE’s artistic vision for many years.

Welcoming speeches will be by WHITE WAVE Dance's Benefactors John Ryan and Ludo Scheffer!

Their opening remarks will be followed by six stunning contemporary dance troupes: Battery Dance, Yoshiko Chuma & The School Of Hard Knocks, Buglisi Dance Theatre, Jennifer Muller / The Works, and our own WHITE WAVE Young Soon Kim Dance Company.

Gala Music by Alison Clancy!

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 2023 Party!

2023 DDF features 55 contemporary dance troupes combining over 300 artists who will present solo, chamber, and full-scale works. Dancers from across the United States, and internationally from Italy, Germany, Japan and South Korea will join the New York’s active dance community to offer the full range of new directions in dance in the 21^st century.

Questions? Please contact WHITE WAVE at ww2023ddf@gmail.com or call at 718-855-8822!