2024 DUMBO DANCE FESTIVAL

WHITE WAVE Dance presents

The 2024 DUMBO DANCE FESTIVAL: A FOUR-DAY SPECTACULAR PRESENTING 55 COMPANIES FROM NEW YORK & AROUND THE WORLD

On Thursday, June 27th, WHITE WAVE Dance celebrates our 23rd 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 27 at 6:30PM

This year WHITE WAVE Young Soon Kim Dance Company celebrates 36th Anniversary!

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 will be honoring two outstanding contributors for WHITE WAVE Dance and Dance Community!

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

Their opening remarks will be followed by five stunning contemporary dance troupes: Yoshiko Chuma & The School Of Hard Knocks, Soledad Barrio & Noche Flamenca (tbd), Pau Aran Gimeno, former member of Tanztheater Wuppertal - Pina Bausch, and our own WHITE WAVE Young Soon Kim Dance Company.

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 2024 Party!

More info at www.whitewavedance.org

2024 DDF features 50contemporary dance troupes combining over 400 artists who will present solo, chamber, and full-scale works. Dancers from across the United States, and internationally from Switzerland, Colombia, Mexico, Taiwan, Japan and 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 ww2024ddf@gmail.com or call at 718-855-8822!