WHITE WAVE Dance is proud to celebrate our 20th Anniversary season of the DUMBO Dance Festival, but for the first time, VIRTUALLY!

2021 VIRTUAL DUMBO DANCE FESTIVAL (VDDF)
JUNE 10 - JUNE 13

June 10– 7pm VIRTUAL GALA(LIVE catered reception for VIP purchasers)
June 11 – June 13 – Festival Performances
June 13– Family Friendly Program + GRAND FINALE

WHITE WAVE scours the globe in search of today's most innovative dancemakers, both emerging and established, and brings them VIRTUALLY together for one extended weekend, all the while paying extra attention to the new, emerging, and experimental. Dance lovers will experience a veritable cornucopia of the best of contemporary dance. 2021 VDDF attracts the very best by providing artists access to our global audiences to experience, first-hand, the incomparable vitality of the NY & around-the-world Dance scene.

2021 VDDF features 60 contemporary dance troupes combining over 350 artists who will present solo, chamber, and full-scale works. Dancers from across the United States, and internationally, from Mexico, Hungary, China, and Korea will join New York’s active dance community to offer the full range of new directions in Dance in the 21st century.

Click HERE to purchase Tickets!

Performance schedule and more info at www.whitewavedance.org
Questions? Please contact us at ww2021ddf@gmail.com or call at 718-855-8822.

Cover image by DAEGU CITY DANCE COMPANY

THE 2021 VDDF will kick off with 2021 Opening Night GALA Celebration on Thursday, JUNE 10th at 7PM.

The evening will be hosted by distinguished guests keynote speakers will include: philanthropist and our Patron Gerald Appelstein; Dance Curator at SummerStage NYC Danni Gee; Jennifer Muller/The Works Artistic Director Jennifer Muller; former WHITE WAVE Board Member & Angel Ludo Scheffer; former WHITE WAVE Board Chair Thera Marshall, our longtime supporter and selection panel member Pascal Rekoert; Senior Director of Artist Development & Curation; Editorial Director at Gibney Eva Yaa Asantewaa (tbd); Founder and Editor-in-Chief at Dance Enthusiast Christine Jowers (tbd); along with Company Board members and our Artistic Director Young Soon Kim.

Their opening remarks will be interspersing through-out the show by six sensational contemporary dance troupes: Jennifer Muller|The Works; Obremski/Works; three of the most eclectic companies from South Korea: DAEGU CITY DANCE COMPANY, collective A|Jinyeob Cha & Theatre Mucheon|Ara Kim; and your host WHITE WAVE Young Soon Kim Dance Company.

Click HERE to purchase GALA Tickets!

After ticket purchase, we will send you an email containing the live stream YouTube link and Program night before, on June 9th.

VIP Ticket purchasers for our Virtual Gala are also invited to our catered open-bar COVID-safe masked LIVE Celebration and viewing at the home of WHITE WAVE Dance in Brooklyn.

As First Lady Mrs. Johnson reminded us, Art is the window through which creators share their sense of beauty with others.

Especially, in this difficult time with Pandemic, we need Art more than ever.
ART gives us our inspiration and uplifts our spirit!

WHITE WAVE’s programs are supported, in part, by public funds from The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, Fund for the City of New York, The New York Community Trust’s NYC COVID-19 Response and Impact Fund, Dance/NYC's Coronavirus Dance Relief Fund, Howard Gilman Foundation, JOHN RYAN COMPANY, and Individual Supporters like you..