2023 DUMBO DANCE FESTIVAL
Presented by White Wave Dance
June 22 - 25, 2023
Thursday, June 22, 2023 at 7PM (GALA Opening Night)
June 23 - 25 (Festival Performances)
Mark Morris Dance Center
James and Martha Duffy Performance Space
(3 Lafayette Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11217)
Tickets: $30 (In Advance) / $25 (Students & Seniors)
(GALA Opening Night Ticket $100 General / $250 VIP)
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 21st century.
Promo video of WHITE WAVE Dance: https://vimeo.com/348735329
The 2023 DUMBO DANCE FESTIVAL will kick off with WHITE WAVE’s Opening Night GALA Celebration on Thursday, June 22nd at 7:00 pm. After the performances, the audience will enjoy a reception with an open bar, party food, and music to feed your soul and a fabulous raffle (including gourmet wine baskets, “Dinner for Two” at local DUMBO eateries, and much more)!
WHITE WAVE Dance celebrates the 22nd 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.
This year WHITE WAVE Young Soon Kim Dance Company celebrates 35th Anniversary!
For more information please visit: www.whitewavedance.org
Please contact WHITE WAVE at wwyskdc@gmail.com or call at 718-855-8822 for any inquiry.
◆ Artistic Director / Producer: Young Soon Kim
Young Soon Kim, Artistic Director of WHITE WAVE, is a nationally and internationally acclaimed choreographer. Her ongoing 40-year career began as a brilliant performer, traversing the globe performing with Jennifer Muller and the Works and her repertory of original works in Taiwan, China, and Hong Kong, as well as a 60-day tour in Korea. In addition, she frequently appeared at major venues & festivals such as Theatre de la Ville in Paris, Maison de la Culture in Le Havre, France; Teatro Nazionale in Milan, Teatro Tendu Striscie in Rome, Italy; Schauspielhaus in Cologne, Germany; as well as the Festival d’Avignon in Avignon, France, among others. In 2003, Ms. Kim was featured in the documentary film Arirang: The Korean American Journey, which was premiered at the Smithsonian Institution and broadcasted nationwide by PBS. She returned to Korea in 2013 to perform as part of the “Celebration of Korea’s 50 Years of Modern Dance” at the Arko Theater in Seoul where she danced a solo from her piece ‘SSOOT’ titled ‘Dark Woods.’
Since founding WHITE WAVE Young Soon Kim Dance Company in 1988, Kim and her company have performed her repertory of 65 original works on an international scale collaborating with music greats such as Dave Brubeck, Stan Strickland, Marco Capelli, and Chinese pianist Tian. In addition to her company’s NY Seasons, Kim has choreographed for City Contemporary Dance Company in Hong Kong, Seoul Contemporary Dance Company in Korea and the St. Gallen Dance Loft in Switzerland, among others.
The company was selected for the 2013/2014 BAM Professional Development Program (PDP), a collaborative program provided by BAM & the DeVos Institute of Arts Management (Kennedy Center), which increased WHITE WAVE's institutional capacity and built the necessary foundation for long-term success. The program culminated in the world premiere of "Eternal NOW" presented at BAM Fisher in June, 2014. The troupe wowed a packed house, stunning audiences and critics alike. The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center documented Eternal NOW on its Opening Night. The video has been catalogued and added to NYPL Dance Division’s permanent collection. Not much later, Ms. Kim was nominated for a second time for the 18th Annual KBS Global Korean Award.
In addition to her role as a performer and Artistic Director, Ms. Kim initiated a series of dance festivals after creating WHITE WAVE John Ryan Theater in DUMBO, Brooklyn, in 2001. She has since become one of the most recognized producers/curators in New York City. Kim also served as a juror for New York City Department of City Affairs in 2006 and as an apprentice for the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council in 2014.
Ms. Kim has since become one of the most recognized producers/curators in New York City, serving as a juror for New York City Department of City Affairs in 2006 and as an apprentice for the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council in 2014. “There are people who simply have a lot of energy, and the Korean-born choreographer Young Soon Kim is clearly one of them.” – Roslyn Sulcas, New York Times 2008.
In 2017, to great acclaim, the Company presented the World Première of the evening-length “iyouuswe” at the LaMama Moves! Festival in New York. This work had its Canadian Première at the Vancouver International Dance Festival 2018, where it was enthusiastically reviewed.
In summer 2019, the Company performed at the Opening Celebration of the ‘19 FINA World Championship Masters' Games in Korea. The Asian Cultural Center, one of the most prestigious arts complexes in Asia and Asia Culture Institute presented ‘Eternal NOW’ with a full cast and staging. In China, White Wave performed at Ningbo Cultural Plaza as part of a China-US Cultural Exchange program.
“iyouuswe II, A Dance Film” is selected to Finalist at 2022 Cannes International Film Festival, Paris International Short Festival, London International Short Film Festival, Vancouver Independent Film Festival and an OFFICIAL SELECTION at the 2021 London International Short Film Festival, Espoo Digi-Dance International Film Festival (Finland) and Experimental, Dance, Music Film Festival (Canada).