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WHITE WAVE Dance to Existing the 21st Annual Digital Dumbo Dance Competition

WHITE WAVE Dance to Present the 21st Annual Virtual Dumbo Dance Festival

WHITE WAVE Dance will current the 21st Annual Digital Dumbo Dance Pageant, June 23-26, 2022. This 4-day breathtaking attributes sixty corporations with above 350 artists from New York and about the globe, showcasing color, chamber, and comprehensive-scale functions. Tickets are $15 (apart from Gala) and can be procured on the internet at www.whitewavedance.org.

The competition commences with a digital opening night time celebration gala on June 23, 2022 at 7PM. The night will be hosted by distinguished visitors keynote speakers, including philanthropist and WHITE WAVE Patron Gerald Appelstein, SummerStage NYC Dance Curator Danni Gee, Jennifer Muller/The Will work Creative Director Jennifer Muller, former WHITE WAVE Board Member & Angel Ludo Scheffer, previous WHITE WAVE Board Chair Thera Marshall, longtime WHITE WAVE supporter and collection panel member Pascal Rekoert, along with Firm Board users and WHITE WAVE Artistic Director Youthful Before long Kim.

Speakers’ remarks will intersperse the night of 6 sensational modern dance troupes: Hyonok Kim Dance Arts, Buglisi Dance Theatre, Barkin/Selissen Project, and three of the most eclectic firms from South Korea: chagmu centre|KIM / MEA JA, UBIN Dance|Na-Hyun Lee & Theatre Mucheon|Ara Kim, and WHITE WAVE Younger Before long Kim Dance Firm.

The pageant proceeds on June 24 with performances at 7PM & 9PM June 25 with performances at 2PM, 4PM, 6PM & 8PM and on June 26 at 4PM & 6PM – with a grand finale at 8PM. There is also a spouse and children-pleasant program on June 26, celebrating the future era of dancers and their dad and mom. WHITE WAVE’s Kids Can Dance education software will offer a free of charge Hip Hop and Modern Dance class on Zoom, 12PM-1PM, led by Corporation member. The course is adopted by a fun and academic family-welcoming dance program of seven organizations, 1:30PM-3PM. Remember to go to www.whitewavedance.org for the full functionality program.

WHITE WAVE scours the globe in lookup of today’s most ground breaking dancemakers, both equally rising and set up, and practically delivers them collectively for one particular prolonged weekend, all the although having to pay more attention to the new, emerging, and experimental. Dance lovers will experience a veritable cornucopia of the best of present-day dance. 2022 VDDF appeals to the extremely ideal by delivering artists access to our world wide audiences to working experience, first-hand, the incomparable vitality of the NY & all around-the-environment Dance scene.

“This is a competition about alternatives,” reported Younger Soon Kim, Artistic Director and founder of White Wave Dance. “The DUMBO Dance Pageant – now Virtual – provides an opportunity for around 350 executing artists to showcase their perform. Further more, it presents New York and worldwide audiences the probability to experience a single of the most various displays of main-edge choreography and excellence at an reasonably priced value.”



Ballaro Dance New York (NY), Alison Cook Beatty Dance (NY), Meg Kirchhoff (Buffalo, NY),

Taylor Graham (NY), Flamencodanza Aylin Bayaz (Madrid, Spain), Kelly Guerrero (CT),

Metanoia Dance (NY), Ramona Sekulovic (Berlin, Germany), Alisa Guiffrida ( Syracuse, NY),

Choreography of Kathleen Hickey (IN), Anabella Lenzu/DanceDrama (NY), Lisa D. Extensive (CA),

Lauren Blair Smith Dance Corporation (CA), Theatre Mucheon (Seoul, Korea), Dmitri Peskov (UT)

EloyDanza (IA), A.L.A.H. (Texas), Hyonok Kim Dance Arts (NY), UBIN Dance (Seoul, Korea),

chagmu centre/ KIM MEA JA (Seoul, Korea), Limón2 (NY), Cristina Ruberto( Salerano Canavese, Italy), Amanda Selwyn Dance Theatre (NY), Amos Pinhasi (NY), JKing Dance Enterprise(JKDC) (NY), East by North Dance (NY), Buglisi Dance Theatre (NY), Elise Knudson (NY), Barkin/Selissen Undertaking (NY), Jody Oberfelder Initiatives (NY), Devin Richey (NY), CrossMove Lab (Plainview, NY), Laurie DeVito and Dancers (NY), Flexicurve (NY), Jenna Hanlon (Fairport, NY), David Appel (NY), Yaa Samar! Dance Theatre (NY), and WHITE WAVE Youthful Before long Kim Dance Organization.

This year, WHITE WAVE Dance will choose two superb organizations to have the possibility to execute at the 2023 New Dance Pageant in Korea, and at the 2022 Detroit City Dance Competition. Equally of these very regarded festivals will give firms with one more excellent opportunity for further publicity, advertising, and performances. All participating VDDF companies will be meticulously thought of and will be notified after the grand finale functionality.

About WHITE WAVE

Shaped in 1988, WHITE WAVE Young Shortly Kim Dance Company (WHITE WAVE) strives to inspire audiences through multi-dimensional dance productions reflecting themes and philosophies the two contemporary and timeless. Our mission is to be a potent stimulus for transform and expansion of the dance/arts globe as a result of the manufacturing of dance live shows, courses, residencies, and education. Inventive Director Young Before long Kim’s vision is expansive, difficult the threshold of dance, songs, theater and visual art, surging forward to produce new prospects. Ms. Kim generates operates of eyesight and motion language in reverence and awe of novelty that challenge and broaden the boundaries of dance. We present the two rising and recognized choreographers/organizations with a NYC venue where they can congregate, produce, rehearse and current new dance functions through our festivals.

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Mission and a brief record of WHITE WAVE

Started by Korean-born Younger Quickly Kim in 1988, the WHITE WAVE Young Before long Kim Dance Company is dedicated to inspiring audiences by means of multi-dimensional dance productions reflecting themes and philosophies the two contemporary and timeless. We regularly try to be a powerful stimulus for development and evolution inside of the dance/arts world. By creating dance concert events, festivals, and instructional activities, WHITE WAVE Dance supplies both nascent and seasoned choreographers/companies with an encouraging environment wherever they can produce, collaborate, and existing new functions in the undisputed money of planet dance, New York Town. WHITE WAVE produced DDF in 2001 in response to the dance community’s need to have for effectiveness options that would not only existing, but also produce, the do the job of climbing choreographers at nominal price for the artist. The festival is now identified as New York’s most prestigious collecting of pioneering choreography, encouraging experimentation, creativeness, and originality. To day, WHITE WAVE Dance has proudly offered around 3,000 choreographers/dance corporations and in excess of 22,500 performers to a whole of additional than 90,500 audience members.

Artistic DIRECTOR

Youthful Shortly Kim, Inventive Director of WHITE WAVE Dance, is a nationally and internationally acclaimed choreographer, whose work has been hailed for its exhilarating, visually amazing, and emotionally wealthy phrases and textures. In addition to her purpose as a performer and Inventive Director, Ms. Kim made a sequence of dance festivals shortly after inaugurating the WHITE WAVE John Ryan Theater in DUMBO, Brooklyn, in 2001. She has due to the fact grow to be one particular of the most identified producers/curators in New York City. Ms. Kim has also served as a juror for New York Town Department of Cultural Affairs in 2006 and for the Decreased Manhattan Cultural Council in 2014. After the Earth première at the 2017 La MaMa Moves! Dance Pageant, WHITE WAVE Dance’s Canadian première of “iyouuswe” (read as I-You-Us-We-two) at the 2018 Vancouver Global Dance Pageant was a resounding good results! WHITE WAVE offered “Eternal NOW” at our enormously productive 2019 tour to Korea and China. In Gwanju, Korea, we performed at a specific event at the Asian Cultural Center, a person of the most prestigious arts complexes in all of Asia. There we participated at the Opening Celebration of the 2019 FINA Environment Championship Masters’ Games, a sporting event that rivals the Olympics. Adhering to that, we flew to China to execute at the Ningbo Cultural Plaza, as part of a China-US Cultural Trade method. Dazzled marketed-out audiences greeted us at each overall performance! For the duration of the Summer time/Drop 2021, Young Quickly Kim, constantly made “iyouuswe II, A Dance Film” and a phase variation of the creation. In Oct 2021 WHITE WAVE Dance offered 3 totally free performances of their newest generation, iyouuswe II (I-You-Us-We-Two), on October 9 and 30, 2021 at DUMBO Archway, and two shows at the Home of WHITE WAVE Dance at 5pm as element of the Metropolis Artist Corps Grant Initiative. “iyouuswe II, A Dance Film” was selected as finalist for the 2022 Cannes Worldwide Film Competition, Paris Intercontinental Small Pageant, Vancouver Unbiased Movie Competition and an Official Collection at the 2021 London Worldwide Shorter Movie Pageant, Espoo Digi-Dance Worldwide Film Competition (Finland) and Experimental, Dance, Tunes Movie Festival (Canada).

WHITE WAVE’s packages are supported, in element, by public funds from The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, Fund for the Metropolis of New York, The New York Group Trust’s NYC COVID-19 Response and Effects Fund, Dance/NYC’s Coronavirus Dance Reduction Fund, Howard Gilman Basis, Harkness Basis for Dance, JOHN RYAN Firm, and Personal Arts Supporters like you.