
GALA Opening Night
Thursday, June 22 7PM @ Mark Morris Dance Center
This year WHITE WAVE Young Soon Kim Dance Company celebrate 35th Anniversary!

Jennifer Muller/The Works (JMTW) was founded in 1974 to support the vision and creativity of Jennifer Muller and to create new work that reached the widest audience possible by performing and touring the repertory in NYC, the US, and abroad. A byword for diversity, JMTW performs work that celebrates the human spirit with the belief that dance can promote cross-cultural understanding and act as a catalyst for positive change.

The award-winning Buglisi Dance Theatre is acclaimed for multi-cultural, socially-relevant dances on the human condition that reveal the heroic spirit, strengths and vulnerabilities of humanity. Founded in 1993 by Artistic Director Jacqulyn Buglisi, and Capucilli, Dakin and Foreman, former Principal Dancers of the Martha Graham Dance Co., BDT tours across the US tours across the U.S. and abroad in Australia, Czech Republic, Mexico, Israel, and Italy.

An accomplished dancer, choreographer and musician, Alison collaborates with many major cultural institutions. Haunting solo music performances weave tapestries of looped electric guitar into expansive, brooding drone-psyche Americana.

Jennifer Muller/The Works (JMTW) was founded in 1974 to support the vision and creativity of Jennifer Muller and to create new work that reached the widest audience possible by performing and touring the repertory in NYC, the US, and abroad. A byword for diversity, JMTW performs work that celebrates the human spirit with the belief that dance can promote cross-cultural understanding and act as a catalyst for positive change.
The 2023 DUMBO DANCE FESTIVAL will kick off with WHITE WAVE’s Opening Night GALA Celebration on Thursday, June 22nd at 7:00 pm. The evening will be hosted by Jessica & Carmine Marinaro, Co-Chairs, Gala Host Committee.
Welcoming speeches will be by WHITE WAVE Dance's Benefactors John Ryan and Ludo Scheffer!
WHITE WAVE Dance will be honoring Jennifer Muller, she was a seminal creative influence for over 50 years, performing for José Limón and Louis Falco, launching her own company, Jennifer Muller/The Works, and building JMTW to such renowned success that it was dubbed the “American ambassador of dance” by The NY Times after countless international tours, and Danni Gee, former Principal Dancer with Philadanco and Alvin Ailey, and current Director of Programming for The Joyce Theater who has championed and supported WHITE WAVE’s artistic vision for many years.
Their opening remarks will be followed by five stunning contemporary dance troupes:
Battery Dance
Yoshiko Chuma & The School Of Hard Knocks
Buglisi Dance Theatre
Jennifer Muller / The Works
WHITE WAVE Young Soon Kim Dance Company
After the performances the audience will enjoy a reception with an open bar, party food, and music to feed your soul and a fabulous raffle gifts (including gourmet wine baskets, “Dinner for Two” at local DUMBO eateries, and much more)!
Click HERE to find GALA Program Information
Click HERE for the program booklet
Thanks to our Sponsors
WHITE WAVE’s programs are supported, in part, by public funds from The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, Fund for the City of New York, The New York Community Trust’s NYC COVID-19 Response and Impact Fund, Dance/NYC's Coronavirus Dance Relief Fund, Howard Gilman Foundation, Harkness Foundation for Dance, JOHN RYAN COMPANY, and Individual Supporters.

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