Program 2
Saturday, June 27 @ 6pm
Performances by:
• Luka Gabriel Appelbaum, NJ
• BK Dance Project, NY
• Mollet Contemporary Ballet, NY
• Samaw Dance Company, NY
• Kim Namjin Physical Theater, KOREA
• Feathers Dance Company, NY
• Drye/Marinaro Dance Company, NY
• Marez Dance Company, FL
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Luka Gabriel Appelbaum
BATH
SVALYAVA is an emerging collective led by choreographer Luka Gabriel Appelbaum. Its work blends technical precision with structured improvisation, creating movement that is both deeply felt and intentionally crafted. The creative process is collaborative yet guided, with its performing artists contributing to the development of material, meeting at a shared nexus where personal experience and choreographic vision converge.
SVALYAVA is presenting an extended version of BATH, which originally premiered for YCF at the Joyce Theater. The work explores cycles of insanity, healing, and recovery in relation to addiction, while merging the artistic process with the spirituality of sobriety. BATH is a physically rigorous, raw act of collective reckoning, where honesty is unavoidable, vulnerability is exposed, and transformation is forged.
© Shea Gordon
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BK Dance Project
Fractured silence
BK Dance Project is a New York City–based contemporary dance company dedicated to creating evocative, human-centered performance works. The company’s choreography blends powerful, athletic movement with nuanced, intimate expression, crafting a physical language that captures emotion in motion. Through its growing body of original works, BK Dance Project explores the complexities of lived experience and invites audiences into a world where dynamic physicality and delicate artistry meet. “Fractured silence” explores the inner landscape of Dissociative Identity Disorder, tracing how a fragmented self learns to move, breathe, and survive. The work weaves together themes of humanity, trauma, protection, and resilience, revealing the quiet strength that emerges when fractured identities find ways to coexist and defend one another.
© Johan Marimoutou
theatres of hysteria
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Mollet Contemporary Ballet
Without Words
Mollet Contemporary Ballet is a New York Based contemporary dance company that creates works around social, racial, political, religious and sexual identity driven narratives. Mollet Contemporary Ballet innovatively highlights the full spectrum of the human experience and challenges perspectives through thought provoking concepts, multidisciplinary approaches to story telling, and visceral movement that speaks to the emotional mind. The piece being presented, Without Words, is a work in progress excerpt that explores the various ways humans engage in relationships and communication. This section highlights romantic connection focusing on feelings of insecurity, trust, comfort, doubt, and patience. This will be the premier of this excerpt with a hope to continue to expand and complete the full 15-20min work. We would like to thank White Wave for this opportunity.
© Darlina_Chiem
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Samaw Dance Company
Unseen Unheard
Samaw Dance Company is a Brooklyn-based performance company led by choreographer and director David Cartahena Lee. Rooted in street and club dance forms alongside contemporary and jazz practices, the company creates work that uplifts AAPI+ and queer stories through movement, cultural accountability, and community care. Samaw Dance produces Resonance, an immersive performance and community gathering that has grown year to year, and Diffraction Dance Festival, a platform for AAPI+ choreographers.
For this program, Samaw Dance presents Unseen Unheard, an ensemble work that looks at what it feels like to move through the world overlooked, misread, or expected to stay quiet. Driven by pulse and layered group dynamics, the piece unravels from intimate moments into shared tension, holding disconnection, silencing, and the push to claim space and belonging.
© Kevin Horlavadi
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Kim Namjin Physical Theater
Light
Kim Namjin Physical Theater, founded in Busan in 2015, seeks to move beyond the traditionally abstract image of Korean contemporary dance by engaging with more realistic and accessible themes.
Born in Busan, choreographer Namjin Kim moved to France in 1995 and became the first Korean to join the French National Contemporary Dance Center (C.C.N.R.B, 1998–2002) and later the renowned Belgian company Les Ballets C de la B/Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui (2002–2007), widely regarded as one of Europe’s leading contemporary dance companies.
© Sang Hoon Ok
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Water Flow
Founded in 2023 by Artistic Director Tsubasa Nishioka, Feathers Dance Company is a New York-based collective bridging Japanese spiritual presence with NYC’s diverse energy. A graduate of The Ailey School’s Scholarship Program, Nishioka emphasizes "humanity" in his direction, a philosophy rooted in his training since age 15 under acclaimed choreographer Fumihito Shimizu. The company recently achieved a near- capacity New York debut at Peridance Center in February 2026.
At the 2026 DUMBO DANCE FESTIVAL, the company presents "Water Flow,"
choreographed by Fumihito Shimizu (Associate Professor at Shobi University and Director of Well-Wind). Known for his international work centered on the theme of water, Shimizu’s choreography utilizes a large plastic sheet as a visual metaphor for the "Great Flow" of society. The piece explores individual agency within a vast current, demonstrating that our collective movements have the power to set the world in motion.
Feathers Dance Company
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Voices
Drye Marinaro Dance Company, entering its 15th season in New York City, is a stylistically diverse ensemble creating work rooted in contemporary, modern, theater, and non-Western dance forms. Co-directed by Jamie Drye and Francesca Marinaro, the company brings together seven NYC-based artists and guest collaborators, crafting dynamic physical storytelling grounded in human experience and the expressive power of movement.
Voices explores how silence can feel unbearably loud—what we hear and carry within the isolation of our own minds. Created during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the work emerges from a time of heightened stillness and internal noise. It reflects on mental health as both a deeply personal and shared experience.
Drye/Marinaro Dance Company
© John Eng
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Marez Dance Company
Beloved
Brodie Rachelle Masse is a Canadian choreographer whose work has been presented internationally in Costa Rica, New Zealand, Australia, the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Her artistic approach emphasizes gratitude, humanity, and the mind-body connection, reflected in both her choreography and teaching. For nine years, she has toured as faculty with INTRIGUE Dance Convention and has also taught at Broadway Dance Center. In 2021, she premiered her first full-length production, Made of Pieces. Alongside Miami-born dancer and choreographer Darlyn Perez, Brodie co-created the Boundless Experience program, encouraging young artists to develop authentic movement and individual voices. Perez trained at New World School of the Arts, DanceTown, and Alonzo King LINES Training Program before joining Rambert2 in London in 2018. Together, Marez Dance Company has created acclaimed works for festivals, training programs, and international dance companies, including the upcoming June 2026 EDANCO premiere.
The Solo "Beloved" invites the audience to connect deeply with the nuances of vulnerability, resilience, and self discovery. Each note, gesture or word in the piece serves as a conduit for raw emotion celebrating the beauty of simplicity and the power of the individual voice..
© Hannah Mayfield
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