2025 DUMBO Dance Festival
Presented by White Wave Dance
June 26–29, 2025
- Thursday, June 26, 2025 at 6:30 PM (GALA Opening Night)
- Friday - Monday, June 27–29 (Festival Performances)
Venue: The Mark O’Donnell Theater
(160 Schermerhorn St, Brooklyn, NY 11201)
Tickets: $30 in advance / $35 at door / $25 students & seniors
- GALA Opening Night Ticket: $100 General / $250 VIP
The 2025 DUMBO Dance Festival, now in its 24th year, proudly presents 45 contemporary dance troupes, featuring over 400 artists from across the United States and internationally—from Korea, Germany, Canada, Switzerland, and beyond. Audiences will enjoy solo, chamber, and full-company works reflecting a rich variety of choreographic voices and artistic visions from around the globe.
Enjoy the Promo video of WHITE WAVE Dance:
https://youtu.be/iZRuBeHuPu0?si=zU3WTkayw7SVvEvV
On Thursday, June 26, WHITE WAVE Dance will open the 24th season of the DUMBO Dance Festival with a GALA Celebration that launches one of New York City’s most anticipated festivals of contemporary dance.
WHITE WAVE remains committed to advancing dance as a vital contemporary art form, continuing to bring together groundbreaking choreographers—both emerging and established—for one immersive weekend in Brooklyn. Over the course of four days and nights, audiences are invited to experience a vibrant spectrum of cutting-edge dance, presented by a global community of performers.
“This is a festival about opportunities,” says Young Soon Kim, Artistic Director of WHITE WAVE Dance. “The DUMBO Dance Festival provides a platform for over 400 performing artists to showcase their work. At the same time, it allows New York audiences to experience an unparalleled variety of bold, visionary choreography—at an accessible price.”
For more information, please visit: www.whitewavedance.org
Please contact WHITE WAVE at wwyskdc@gmail.com or call 718-855-8822 for any inquiry.
◆ Artistic Director / Producer: Young Soon Kim
Young Soon Kim, Artistic Director of WHITE WAVE Dance, is a recipient of the 2023 Bessies Angel Honoree Award, and is a nationally and internationally acclaimed choreographer, whose work has been hailed for its exhilarating, visually stunning, and emotionally rich phrases and textures.
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 72 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, we performed at Ningbo Cultural Plaza as part of a China-US Cultural Exchange program. Overwhelmed sold-out audiences greeted us at every performance!
“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).
In August and September, WHITE WAVE Dance will embark on an international tour to São Paulo, Brazil, and Seoul, Korea.