2016 DUMBO DANCE FESTIVAL
Event Information
Description
16th ANNUAL DUMBO DANCE FESTIVAL
GALA Opening Night: SEPTEMBER 29 at 7PM Click HERE to purchase your GALA tickets: http://2016ddfgala.eventbrite.com
FESTIVAL Performances: Sept. 30 - October 2, 2016
All festival performances are FREE / Pay-What-You-Will
On Thursday, September 29, 2016, WHITE WAVE Dance celebrates the 16th Anniversary season of the DUMBO Dance Festival with a Gala Opening that heralds the most anticipated four-day festival of contemporary dance in the greater New York City region. Committed to the development in dance as an important art form, WHITE WAVE scours the globe in search of the most innovative of today's dancemakers, 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. The DUMBO Dance festival features 70 contemporary dance troupes combining over 325 artists who will present solo, chamber, and full scale works. Dancers from across the United States, Canada, Hungary, Poland, Japan, South Korea, and Italy will join the New York’s active dance community to offer the full range of new directions in dance in the 21st century.
Special highlights include a FREE Family Program on Sunday October 1 (12-3pm) offering a Hip-Hop dance class for the whole family and a family-friendly dance performance.
LOCATION
GELSEY KIRKLAND ARTSCENTER: 29 Jay Street, DUMBO, Brooklyn, 11201
Just one train stop from downtown Manhattan, accessible from the F train at York Street; and A, C trains at High Street.
RSVP: www.whitewavedance.com
Book on line to secure your reservation.
General admission seating begins promptly on the hour on a first-come, first-seated basis.
Organizer WHITE WAVE Young Soon Kim Dance Company
Organizer of 2016 DUMBO DANCE FESTIVAL
WHITE WAVE Young Soon Kim Dance Company is a 10-member contemporary dance company formed in 1988. Its mission is to broaden the boundaries of dance. It endeavors to enhance the language of dance through collaboration with music, poetry and visual art of many forms.
WWYSKDC inspires audiences of all cultures with the multi-dimensional aspects of complete dance staging and productions which reflect themes and philosophies both modern and timeless. WWYSKDC wishes both to share its love of dance and to create works of such power, penetration and feeling that audiences renew their concern for other living beings, their connection with nature, and their appreciation for the rhythmic designs that unite us all.
Since 2001, WHITE WAVE’s Artistic Director Young Soon Kim has gained eminence as one of New York’s leading dance curators as producer of three annual festivals (DUMBO DANCE FESTIVAL, WAVE RISING SERIES and COOL NEW YORK DANCE Festival) at the WHITE WAVE John Ryan Theater in DUMBO, Brooklyn. For all of these productions, WHITE WAVE finds, nurtures and broadens the horizons for emerging and established dancemakers from around the world, a platform for companies who may not have the resources to stage full productions of their works, to such a vast audience. New work and/or repertory of WHITE WAVE is also featured.
Young Soon Kim and the company have appeared on many principal stages both in the US and the Far East — Joyce Theater, Kennedy Center, Dance Theater Workshop, Jacob’s Pillow, American Dance Festival, Theater at St. Clemens, Florence Gould Hall, Judson Memorial Church, Dancenow Downtown Festival, National Theater of Seoul (Korea), National Theater of Taipei (Taiwan), Hong Kong Academy of the Performing Arts, Ichibangi Theater (Japan), as well as at regional venues across the United States.
WHITE WAVE’s wide press coverage over the years has included interviews on Eyewitness News WABC-TV Channel 7's Five O'clock News, CNN’s International Inside Asia program, and features for WWOR-TV Channel 9’s 10 O’clock News and Fox 5 TV’s Good Day New York.
