The 2017 DUMBO DANCE FESTIVAL: A FOUR-DAY MARATHON of DANCE INNOVATION for NEW YORK

2017 DUMBO DANCE FESTIVAL (October 5th - 8th)                                                           

October 5th,  7PM  GALA Opening Night

October 6th–October 8th  Festival Performances                                              

October 8th  Family Friendly Program                                                                                       

Gelsey Kirkland ArtsCenter (29 Jay Street, DUMBO, Brooklyn, NY 11201)

On Thursday, October 5, 2017, WHITE WAVE Dance celebrates the 17th Anniversary season of the DUMBO Dance Festival (DDF) with a Gala Opening that heralds the most anticipated four-day festival of contemporary dance in the greater New York City region. Committed to the development in dance as an important art form, WHITE WAVE scours the globe in search of the most innovative of today's dance makers, both emerging and established, and brings them to Brooklyn for one extended weekend.

For four nights and three days, dance lovers will experience a veritable cornucopia of the best of contemporary dance. The DUMBO Dance festival is committed to advancing the best of dance by providing on-stage and behind-the-scene opportunities for 70 dance troupes from across America and the globe, allowing them to experience, first-hand, the incomparable vitality of the New York dance experience.

“This is a festival about opportunities,” says Young Soon Kim, Artistic Director of WHITE WAVE Dance “The DUMBO Dance Festival provides an opportunity for over 350 performing artists to showcase their work. Further, it offers New York audiences the chance to participate in one of the most diverse displays of leading-edge choreography and excellence for an admission price of only $10.

The Gala evening will be hosted by a guest celebrity (TBA).and will feature works by seven stunning contemporary dance troupes: Alicia Mullikin, Iker Karrera (Spain), Onjin Dance Company (Italy), Verlezza Dance, Over Soul Tanz Theater (China) Maddie Hanson, WHITE WAVE Young Soon Kim Dance Company.

TICKETS: General Admission: $10 | GALA Opening Night, October 5th (starts at $100).

Gala Performance only tickets: $15

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2017 DDF features 70 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 Switzerland, China, Hungary, Spain, Japan, Korea, and Italy will join the New York’s active dance community to offer the full range of new directions in dance in the 21st century.