WHITE WAVE Dance celebrates their 22nd Anniversary season of the DUMBO Dance Festival (DDF), 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-scene 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.
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 New York’s active dance community to offer the full range of new directions in dance in the 21st century:
GALA OPENING NIGHT: Thursday, June 22 @ 7 PM
-Battery Dance, NY
-Limon Dance Company, NY
-Yoshiko Chuma & The School Of Hard Knocks, NY
-Buglisi Dance Theatre, NY
-Jennifer Muller / The Works, NY
-WHITE WAVE Young Soon Kim Dance Company, NY
Friday, June 23 @ 7 PM
-Li Chiao-Ping Dance Company, WI
-Neta Kinetics, NY
-Suzzanne Ponomarenko Dance, NY
-Dmitri Peskov and Jung Ah Yoon, UT/Korea
-American Swiss Ballet Company, NY
-Amos Pinhasi, NY
-Elise Knudson plus, NY
-Fellow Travelers Performance Group, LA
-Tec Dance Company, NL
Saturday, June 24 @ 4 PM
-Animus Movement, CO
-TalubaDance, NJ
-Zehnder Dance, MA
-NU-World Contemporary Danse Theatre, NY
-Andamio, CA
-Columbia Repertory Dance Company, SC
-Ramona Sekulovic, Germany
-Ballet Hartford, CT
-University of Arizona School of Dance, AZ
Saturday, June 24 @ 6 PM
-The Kingdom Dance Company, NY
-Ali Koinoglou, NY
-Smutek Dance, MI
-Company | E, DC
-Zehnder Dance, MA
-KT COLLECTIVE Dance Company, NC
-Earth&Rainbow, Japan
-Columbia Repertory Dance Company, SC
-WHITE WAVE Young Soon Kim Dance Company, NY
Sunday, June 25 @ 4 PM
-MONICA FARNE' DANCE COMPANY, Italy
-University of Kentucky Dance, KY
-ella mccauley dance, VA
-Six Degrees Dance, NY
-More Fish, NY
-Leiphia, CA
-Freespace Dance, NJ
-Alexandra Tiso - Moments in Movement, PA
-Koin & Co, NY
GRAND FINALE: Sunday, June 25 @ 6 PM
-Julia Ramirez + dancers, NJ
-American Swiss Ballet Company, NY
-WHITE WAVE Young Soon Kim Dance Company, NY
-RyderDance, NY
-Alfonse Napolitano, NJ
-Alison Cook Beatty Dance, NY
-The DynamitExperience, NY
-Tec Dance Company, NL
