On June 27, WHITE WAVE Dance celebrates the 23rd anniversary season of the DUMBO Dance Pageant (DDF) with a Gala Opening that heralds the up to date dance competition. Dedicated to growing dance as an essential artwork type, WHITE WAVE scours the globe looking for probably the most modern of immediately’s dance makers, each rising and established, and brings them to Brooklyn for one prolonged weekend. For 4 nights and three days, dance lovers will expertise a veritable cornucopia of one of the best of latest dance. DDF is dedicated to advancing one of the best of dance by offering on-stage and behind-the-scenes alternatives for 50 dance troupes from throughout America and across the globe, permitting audiences to expertise, first-hand, the incomparable vitality of the New York dance scene.
“This can be a competition about alternatives,” says Younger Quickly Kim, Inventive Director of WHITE WAVE Dance. “The DUMBO Dance Pageant gives a possibility for over 400 performing artists to showcase their work. Additional, it provides New York audiences the prospect to take part in one of the crucial various shows of modern choreography and excellence at an reasonably priced value.”
The 2024 DDF will kick off with WHITE WAVE’s Opening Evening GALA Celebration on June 27. Opening remarks shall be adopted by 5 up to date dance troupes: Buglisi Dance Theatre, Yoshiko Chuma & The College Of Arduous Knocks, ZviDance, Firm | E, and WHITE WAVE Younger Quickly Kim Dance Firm.
After the performances, the viewers can get pleasure from an open bar, meals and music to feed the soul, in addition to a wonderful raffle together with gourmand wine baskets, “Dinner for Two” at native DUMBO eateries, and way more.
2024 DDF options 50 up to date dance troupes combining over 400 artists who will current solo, chamber and full-scale works. Dancers from throughout the USA, and internationally from Switzerland, Colombia, Mexico, Taiwan, Japan and Korea will be a part of the New York’s lively dance neighborhood to supply the complete vary of recent instructions in dance within the 21st century.
Throughout this 12 months’s competition, WHITE WAVE Dance shall be deciding on two excellent corporations to have the chance to carry out on the 2025 New Dance Pageant in South Korea, and the 2025 Detroit Metropolis Dance Pageant. Each of those extremely regarded festivals will present corporations with one other alternative for additional publicity, promotion and performances. All corporations collaborating on this 12 months’s competition shall be rigorously thought-about and shall be notified after the competition.
The Grand Finale of 2024 DDF will happen on June 30, with performances by eight corporations, together with Ali Pfleger and Artists, Cori Marquis + the Nines [IX], Lopez & Dancers, Hoon Dance Firm, Freespace Dance, Ara Dance Challenge, and WHITE WAVE Younger Quickly Kim Dance Firm.
Pageant tickets will be bought at whitewavedance.networkforgood.com/occasions/69546-2024-dumbo-dance-festival, and for extra info, go to www.whitewavedance.org.
