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To dance and create dances, beautiful and inspirational work, is my dream and I have been working for this with utmost single-mindedness a long period of time, over 30 years! I am reaching the point where I want to share through educational programs and also support the dance community as a presenting organization.

WHITE WAVE Young Soon Kim Dance Company is a potent stimulus for change and expansion of the dance/arts world through the creation of new dance works, production of dance concerts, and education and outreach through dance classes. The Company creates dance pieces that share with audiences of all cultures a modern perspective of timeless issues through the expressive medium of dance. The Performance & Rehearsal Space (John Ryan Theater) showcases emerging and established choreographers and dance companies. The Company provides a wide range of dance education, serving both professional and recreational dancers, with classes for adults and children.

WHITE WAVE’s vision is expansive, challenging the threshold of the medium, surging forward to create new possibilities and an invaluable artistic resource center in one of Brooklyn's fastest growing artist neighborhoods.

WHITE WAVE accomplishes its mission by providing opportunities for dancers and choreographers to create, rehearse, perform their art and network with each other, and by engaging the local dance community in an ongoing arts dialogue, carrying dance and art forward through sharing and collaboration.

The DUMBO DANCE FESTIVAL presents the work of six to seven choreographers every hour to a packed audience and the numbers speak for themselves. Over the past six years of presenting the annual DUMBO DANCE FESTIVAL three years of the Cool New York DANCE Festival, last year’s remarkable International DUMBO DANCE FESTIVAL and this year’s first ever WAVE RISING SERIES, we have a diverse selection of approximately 350 performing artists presenting a plethora of new and inventive works. The tantalizing variety of choreographic voices presented by WHITE WAVE’s state-of-the-art 4,000 square foot studio-stage has amounted to a total of 596 choreographers/dance companies, more than 2,500 dancers, and hosted over 25,000 audience members. During these performances, at any given time, approximately half again as many people as the theatre could accommodate were lined up outside the John Ryan Theater, in a line reaching two blocks down the street.

WHITE WAVE is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, New York State Council on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, Brooklyn Borough President’s Office, and City Council, David Yassky as well as Mertz Gilmore Foundation, Emma A Sheafer Charitable Trust, Samsung Electronics America, INC, The Korea Society, Korean Cultural Service, and the support of individual donors

The installation of WHITE WAVE's new, fully equipped state-of-the-art lighting system is funded by a generous grant from the Mertz Gilmore Foundation. The annual DUMBO DANCE FESTIVAL, and the Cool New York DANCE Festival stand apart from the countless other arts and performance events in New York City by their grand scale, their diversity and their drawing power to audiences, a result of the participation of a broad spectrum of established and emerging artists with a cutting-edge creativity and vast interdisciplinary ethic. We hope that you can envision the enormous benefit these festivals and programs at WHITE WAVE can have, not just for New York's vital dance community but for the public at large. By creating a platform for emerging choreographers to show their work and providing a much-needed space where they can rehearse and perform, WHITE WAVE can fulfill its mission of being a potent stimulus for change and expansion in the arts world.


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$ 50 - Friend

w Copies of quarterly newsletter
w Listing in company’s performance program
w 1 free introductory class (modern dance, yoga, latin dance, martial arts, Pilates, or children’s dance)

$ 100 – Contributor

wAll of the above, plus:
w Priority notice of company performances and festivals at WHITE WAVE’s John Ryan Theater
w 10% discount for all performances at WHITE WAVE

$ 250 – Sponsor

All of the above, plus:
w Invitation to private studio showing
w 2 free introductory classes

$ 500 - Patron

All of the above, plus:
w Two VIP seats for annual DUMBO DANCE FESTIVAL & Cool New York DANCE Festival
w Formal invitation to a WHITE WAVE company dress rehearsal

$ 1000 - Benefactor

All of the above, plus:
w Formal invitation to WHITE WAVE’s Gala dress rehearsal & cast party
w Two complimentary tickets to WHITE WAVE’s premiers
w Artistic Director Young Soon Kim will personally cook dinner for two at WHITE WAVE.

$ 2500 - Angel

All of the above, plus:
w Possible election to the Board of Directors of WHITE WAVE
w Four VIP seats for annual DUMBO DANCE FESTIVAL & Cool New York DANCE Festival
w Four complimentary tickets to WHITE WAVE’s premiers
w Three free introductory classes
w 15% off all educational programs until December 2007

$ 5000 - Partner

All of the above, plus:
w Lifetime membership
w Ten VIP seats for annual DUMBO DANCE FESTIVAL & Cool New York DANCE Festival
w Ten complimentary tickets to WHITE WAVE’s premiers
w Ten free classes
w 25% off all educational programs until December 2007

We are grateful for the support received from especially YOU, as it empowers WHITE WAVE to reach out to the dance community in New York City and beyond and service all those who love to create, perform and view dance.

The severity of financial crises is not new to the performing arts, and dance particularly has had to fight for every inch. Supporting the arts, especially in this time, demands a stern commitment to the positive development of our community as a whole. By lending us a hand, your commitment to this cause will be greatly appreciated by the hundreds of artists and thousands of audience members who we are serving now and in the future.


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