WHITE WAVE is thrilled to invite performers and choreographers to submit applications to the 24th Annual DUMBO Dance Festival (DDF), taking place June 26-29, 2025 at the renowned James and Martha Duffy Performance Space at the Mark Morris Dance Center. Early Bird Applications are due by December 2, 2024 at 11:30pm. Regular Applications are due by December 23, 2024 at 11:30pm. For more information, please visit www.whitewavedance.org.

For over two decades, WHITE WAVE Dance has proudly showcased contemporary dance artists from across the globe. The 2025 DUMBO Dance Festival is a four-day spectacular presenting over 60 companies from New York and around the world.

WHITE WAVE scours the globe to bring today’s most innovative dancemakers–both emerging and established–to NYC for one unforgettable weekend, with a special focus on the new, emerging, and experimental. Dance lovers will enjoy a vibrant showcase of contemporary dance, experiencing the energy and vitality of New York and global dance scenes up close.

2025 DUMBO Dance Festival

Dates: June 26th-29th

Venue: Mark Morris Dance Center | James and Martha Duffy Performance Space (venue TBD)

Each choreographer/company may submit up to two applications for the 2025 DUMBO Dance Festival. Please note that each application requires a separate form and application fee, which is non-refundable. All applications will be reviewed by a panel of impartial adjudicators. If your work is selected, you will be notified by email by mid-January 2025.

— Early Bird Application due by December 2nd, 11:30pm.

— Regular Application due by December 23rd, 11:30pm.

Application Form:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdfrwZgPP4V1LldRNaqYH8qAEEgAzfXc-5f2HEtNAAQLjVqtw/viewform

2025 DUMBO Dance Festival Promo:

DUMBO Dance Festival on ABC Eyewitness News:

For all inquiries regarding the 2025 DDF, please contact Young Soon Kim, Artistic Director, at 718-855-8822 or email ww2025ddf@gmail.com.

ABOUT Young Soon Kim, Artistic Director

Young Soon Kim, Artistic Director of WHITE WAVE Dance, is a recipient of the 2023 Bessies Angel Honoree Award and a nationally and internationally acclaimed choreographer known for her exhilarating, visually stunning, and emotionally rich choreography.

Beyond her work as a performer and Artistic Director, Ms. Kim has founded a series of dance festivals following the inauguration of the WHITE WAVE John Ryan Theater in DUMBO, Brooklyn, in 2001. She has become one of NYC’s most recognized producers and curators, also serving as a juror for the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. Ms. Kim and her company have performed at prestigious venues such as BAM Fisher, the Joyce Theater, the Kennedy Center, Dance Theater Workshop, Jacob’s Pillow, and the American Dance Festival, as well as the 1988 Summer Olympics World Dance Festival in Korea. In June 2021, the Korean Arts Council, which manages the archive for prominent artists, selected Young Soon Kim as the first active artist outside of Korea to be inducted into the archive across all genres.

“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, The New York Times

ABOUT WHITE WAVE

Formed in 1988, WHITE WAVE Young Soon Kim Dance Company (WHITE WAVE) strives to inspire audiences through multi-dimensional dance productions reflecting themes and philosophies both modern and timeless. Our mission is to be a potent stimulus for change and expansion of the dance/arts world through the production of dance concerts, classes, residencies, and education. Artistic Director Young Soon Kim’s vision is expansive, challenging the threshold of dance, music, theater and visual art, surging forward to create new possibilities. Ms. Kim creates works of vision and movement language in reverence and awe of novelty that challenge and broaden the boundaries of dance. We provide both emerging and established choreographers/companies with a NYC venue where they can congregate, create, rehearse and present new dance works through our festivals. www.whitewavedance.org.

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