GRAND FINALE
Sunday, June 28 @ 6pm
Performances by:
• Alexandra Light, NY
• Alison Cook Beatty Dance, NY
• Company | E, DC
• Carolyn Dorfman Dance, NJ
• Kris Hudecz, MI
• Orphic, NY
• Olivia Wang, NY
• WHITE WAVE Dance, NY
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Alexandra Light
As Above
Alexandra Light (née Farber) is a choreographer whose work merges classical form with experimental structure to explore ecology, feminist history, and psychological space. A former Principal Dancer with Texas Ballet Theater, her choreography has been presented by The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Battery Dance Festival, and Steps on Broadway Conservatory. She has held residencies at the Frank Lloyd Wright Martin House, Jacob’s Pillow, ORTO Creative Hub in Portugal, Centre Pompadour in France, and The Volland Foundation in Kansas, among others.
As Above is a contemporary ballet pas de deux that tells an abstract narrative surrounding the expression “as above, so below.” The movements reflect themes of parallel timelines and the questions we ask about what lies beyond. Drawing from cross-cultural mythologies, Light collaborates with composer Matt Kidd and costume designer Lauren Carmen to offer a glimpse into the viewer’s own sense of other worlds.
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Jesse Obremski (he/him), a native New Yorker, Japanese-American, graduated from LaGuardia High School and The Juilliard School with additional development at The School at Jacob’s Pillow with multiple years at The Ailey School, Earl Mosley’s Institute of the Arts, and Springboard Danse Montréal.
Obremski has his award-winning choreography presented nationally and internationally. Obremski is the Founder and Artistic Director of Obremski/Works, which notably had its debut at Lincoln Center through The Dance Films Associations presented by HBO. Obremski also has had his work performed by Gibney Company, BYU Contemporary Dance Theater, Earl Mosley's Diversity of Dance, MOVE|NYC|, Sacred Heart University, and various others, and in the United States, Malaysia, Canada, Japan, Mexico, and Prague. Obremski served on the Executive Committee of the Junior Committee for Dance/NYC (2021-2022) and, after four years of being on the Board, now serves as Associate Executive Director of Earl Mosley's Diversity of Dance.
Obremski/Works
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Alison Cook Beatty Dance
NOVA (An Excerpt)
Alison Cook Beatty Dance (ACBD), founded in 2012, is a New York City–based contemporary company rooted in the traditions of American modern dance. Under the direction of Alison Cook-Beatty, a former member of Taylor 2, the company has created over 50 original works in its 14-year history, performing extensively throughout New York City and touring regionally across the Northeast.
ACBD has been presented at venues and festivals including Theater for the New City, Dance Parade New York, the Newport Contemporary Dance Festival, and DUMBO Dance Festival. The company’s work has been supported by the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) and the New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA).
Committed to both artistic excellence and community engagement, ACBD provides residencies and outreach for diverse communities. At DUMBO Dance Festival, the company presents NOVA, exploring the life cycle of stars—brilliance, collapse, and renewal—through dynamic ensemble movement and human connection.
© Whitney Browne
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Company | E
Intrepid
Company | E is a Washington, DC–based performing arts organization that brings together dance, music, and film through vibrant international collaborations. At its core is a contemporary repertory dance company that works with artists from around the world to create bold, engaging performances for audiences at home and abroad.
Led by Paul Gordon Emerson and Kathryn Sydell Pilkington, the Company’s seven dancers are known for their versatility and dynamic stage presence, performing across styles and disciplines.
The work, Intrepid, created while at the 2025 World Expo in Japan, features music by Brianna Tam and choreography by Company | E dancers. Inspired by a sense of push and pull, it weaves together powerful partnering and intricate movement driven by Tam’s music.
Through partnerships with the U.S. Department of State, Company | E connects with communities worldwide, creating meaningful cultural exchange while celebrating both local traditions and contemporary artistic voices.
© Victoria Arice
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Carolyn Dorfman Dance
Part 1 of The Hero Within: The Story of Max Heller, Mary Mills and Miracles- The Prologue- A Dance by Chance in the Park (2025)
Carolyn Dorfman is known as a creator of evocative dances that reflect her concerns about the human condition. Hailed as the consummate storyteller, Dorfman, a child of Holocaust survivors, has created a celebrated body of work that honors her Eastern European Jewish roots, heritage, and her family’s Holocaust and American immigrant experiences. Embodied by her stellar, diverse dancers and artistic collaborators, her interdisciplinary and intercultural approach on the stage and in the community explores the rich tapestry of human experience, tradition, and stories. Celebrating over four decades, Carolyn Dorfman Dance tours nationally and internationally sharing both the specific and universal stories of pain and loss, as well as redemption, compassion and hope. For DUMBO, CDD presents the prologue of her 2026 premiere,
THE HERO WITHIN-The Story of Max Heller, Mary Mills and Miracles. Two lives intertwined by bravery, compassion, and defiance in the face of injustice. Discover how One person. One voice. One act. ... can change everything.
© Jeremy Fleming
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Kris Hudecz
Am I Like You?
Kris Hudecz (she/her/they) is a queer contemporary dance artist. A BFA and BSW (Eastern Michigan University, 2020), Kris studied crisis-intervention for women, girls, and the LGBTQ+ community while simultaneously training in dance studios alongside those very communities. Kris’s punchy, visceral works combine empowerment and protest at the intersection of her two greatest passions. Kris has danced professionally as an independent and company dancer of Metro-Detroit dance companies, her work recognized by several organizations including Koresh Dance Company, Detroit Dance City Festival, Kristi Faulkner Dance, Suttle Dance Company, and the American College Dance Association. Kris is a master teacher and mentor to pre-professional youth, encouraging young artists to rise against bigotry with critical, pointed art.
Am I Like You?, informed by the 1998 murder of Matthew Shepard, holds a mirror to audiences asking, “How do we live, knowing we are as human as those who seek to harm us?”
© Courtney Hessenbruch
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Orphic
MERAKI
Orphic is a newly emerging inspiration unfolding under the talented gaze of NYC based choreographer Tiernan Yei. Tiernan’s unswerving practice is to center dancers in every artistic endeavor while cultivating the definition of Orphic itself - the qualities of mystery, intrigue and being beyond ordinary understanding - from within each dancer to ripple outward through each expression of dance. As a company, Orphic explores waves of dynamic energy where rhythm, tension and flow intertwine. The work moves between control and release - an ever-shifting dance of power and surrender. Orphic is offered as structure; awaiting the opportunity to serve as a vessel for the meaning every dancer seeks to pour out in their art. It is not only the form and technique of each dancer’s body that are instrumental, but also the dancer’s soul and essence of existence.
© Victoria Arice
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Olivia Wang
“A Life We’ve Never Lived, Yet Dreamt Of"
Olivia Wang is originally from Houston, Texas, and is a graduating senior at The Juilliard School. As a choreographer, she has had her works selected to be performed at Juilliard’s Choreographic Honors in 2023, 2024, and 2025 and was selected to create for Juilliard's 2024 Choreographers and Composers. She was selected to present her piece “Cyclical Tendencies” for the Steps Beyond Foundation Choreography Lab and was a resident choreographer for Columbus Modern Dance Company in 2025. Most recently, she was chosen as a Juilliard Senior Production Choreographer where she will premiere a new work in May of 2026 and has been nominated by Juilliard for a 2026 Princess Grace Award.
Her piece, “A Life We’ve Never Lived, Yet Dreamt Of" explores the boundless fantasies and possibilities of our imagination. It is grounded in the question: what does one’s personal dream world look like when it is no longer distant or abstract, but instead becomes the tangible reality one inhabits?
© Jaqlin Medlock
WHITE WAVE Young Soon Kim Dance Company
Here NOW So Long (excerps)
Founded by Korean-born Young Soon Kim in 1988, the WHITE WAVE Young Soon Kim Dance Company is dedicated to inspiring audiences through multi-dimensional dance productions reflecting themes and philosophies both modern and timeless. We constantly strive to be a potent stimulus for progress and evolution within the dance/arts world. By producing dance concerts, festivals, and educational activities, WHITE WAVE Dance provides both nascent and seasoned choreographers/companies with an encouraging environment where they can create, collaborate, and present new works in the undisputed capital of world dance, New York City.
© Hisae Aihara
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