2026 dumbo dance festival: 

June 26th – 6:30pm GALA Opening Night

June 27th-28th– Festival Performances

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  Taylor Dance East Theater

551 Grand Street New York, NY 10002 

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WHITE WAVE Dance proudly announces the 25th Anniversary Season of the DUMBO Dance Festival (DDF), a dynamic three-day event showcasing 35 cutting-edge dance companies from New York and around the world. The festival kicks off on Friday, June 26, with a Gala Opening Night, setting the stage for an exhilarating weekend of contemporary dance.

 

Committed to developing 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 Manhattan for one extended weekend. For three nights and days, dance lovers will experience a veritable cornucopia of the best contemporary dance. DDF is committed to advancing the best of dance by providing on-stage and behind-the-scenes opportunities for 40 dance troupes from across America and around the globe, allowing audiences to experience, first-hand, the incomparable vitality of the New York dance scene.

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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 200 performing artists to showcase their work while offering New York audiences access to an extraordinary range of excellent and visionary choreography at an affordable price.”