WHITE WAVE Dance Invites Submissions for the 2025 DUMBO Dance Festival

WHITE WAVE is thrilled to invite performers and choreographers to submit applications to the 24th Annual DUMBO Dance Festival (DDF), taking place June 26-29, 2025 at the renowned James and Martha Duffy Performance Space at the Mark Morris Dance Center. Early Bird Applications are due by December 2, 2024 at 11:30pm. Regular Applications are due by December 23, 2024 at 11:30pm. For more information, please visit www.whitewavedance.org.

For over two decades, WHITE WAVE Dance has proudly showcased contemporary dance artists from across the globe. The 2025 DUMBO Dance Festival is a four-day spectacular presenting over 60 companies from New York and around the world.

WHITE WAVE scours the globe to bring today’s most innovative dancemakers–both emerging and established–to NYC for one unforgettable weekend, with a special focus on the new, emerging, and experimental. Dance lovers will enjoy a vibrant showcase of contemporary dance, experiencing the energy and vitality of New York and global dance scenes up close.

Each choreographer/company may submit up to two applications for the 2025 DUMBO Dance Festival. Please note that each application requires a separate form and application fee, which is non-refundable. All applications will be reviewed by a panel of impartial adjudicators. If your work is selected, you will be notified by email by mid-January 2025.

Formed in 1988, WHITE WAVE Young Soon Kim Dance Company (WHITE WAVE) strives to inspire audiences through multi-dimensional dance productions reflecting themes and philosophies both modern and timeless. Their mission is to be a potent stimulus for change and expansion of the dance/arts world through the production of dance concerts, classes, residencies, and education. Artistic Director Young Soon Kim’s vision is expansive, challenging the threshold of dance, music, theater and visual art, surging forward to create new possibilities. Ms. Kim creates works of vision and movement language in reverence and awe of novelty that challenge and broaden the boundaries of dance.

For all inquiries regarding the 2025 DDF, please contact Young Soon Kim, Artistic Director, at 718-855-8822 or email ww2025ddf@gmail.com.

2025 DUMBO Dance Festival, Image credit WHITE WAVE DANCE