​Anniversary Wave Rising Series featuring 18 of today’s rising and eminent dancemakers from Canada, Poland, China and the across the USA. The Series provides a rare opportunity for choreographers, through an adjudication process by prominent figures from the dance community, to present their work to New York City’s vital dance audience.

This year, Young Soon Kim and WHITE WAVE Dance will be conducting two master classes during the festival at PeriDance on June 21 & 23 at 4-6 pm.

In 2006, WAVE RISING SERIES started by presenting local companies, now features innovative dancemakers from around the world. The superb national and international companies are given 20 minutes each on a shared bill, performing twice over the course of the two weekend festival.

Channel 13 NYC ARTS paid homage to our WAVE RISING SERIES, highlighting it as a gathering of “innovative dancemakers from around the world,” and praised the SERIES for presenting “an eclectic range of dance companies who have been selected for their artistic growth or visionary independent productions.”

OPENING NIGHTS: Celebrating 10th Anniversary WRS Opening Night will be on June 17th and the evening starts at 8:30pm with La P en V Innovative Dance Platform (Hong Kong, China), RH+ (Renata Skobo, Hyun Kim) (Kraków, Poland), ZviDance, Flexicurve and WHITE WAVE Young Soon Kim Dance Company from New York.

The performance will be followed by a Q&A session and a reception that will give guests the chance to mingle and dance with the artists!

La P en V Innovative Dance Platform (Pulse):

​ ​Aims at the promotion of Chinese contemporary dance with high quality original works integrating the Chinese and western culture. Original works, Naked Soul and Illusions in the Rain, have won the highest honor Jury prize (1st place in both 2013 & 2015) and the Audience Prize (1stplace in 2013 & 2nd place in 2015) International Jazz Dance Open organized by the Czech city, Pardubice. This will be the debut performance in NYC.
RH+ (Renata Skobo, Hyun Kim) (INnerMIND):

​RH + dance duo – Renata Skobo (Serbian-Polish) and Hyun Kim (Korean). Synergy of two personalities, fusion of two cultures, combination of two individuals driven by dance. Duo which was connected by movement and by knowledge of discovering similarities in their own differences.
ZviDance (Chair Duet (Excerpt from “Interiors”)):

​ ​In the last 25 years of existence, ZviDance has received critical praise and funding for its artistic projects. Recently, one of the company’s signature works, DABKE, was recognized by the New York Times as one of Alastair Macaulay’s TOP TEN DANCE FAVORITES OF 2013.
“Dabke strikes me as the most enchanting piece I’ve seen in a long while… “ New York Times.

Flexicurve (Clouds & Greener Grasses):
​Flexicurve is a New York-based multifaceted dance company directed by Pascal Rekoert. Through exuberant and witty choreography, the audience is engaged in dialogues of social issues and values.
WHITE WAVE Young Soon Kim Dance Company (iyouuswe (excerpts)):

​A pioneer of “Hallyu (한류): Korean Wave”, Young Soon Kim, an internationally acclaimed choreographer who has been hailed for her exhilarating, visually stunning, and emotionally rich work. Formed in 1988, WHITE WAVE Dance strives to inspire audiences through multi-dimensional dance productions reflecting themes and philosophies both modern and timeless.
“Kim’s choreography is highly charged, full of yearning leg extensions, trembling gestures both provocative and shy…”
– Elizabeth Zimmer, Dance Magazine

2016 Wave Rising Series performance schedule:

Program A: Sat, Jun 18, 7 pm & Sun, Jun 19, 4 pm
Rebecca Bryant Danceworks (MANUFACTURED)
RH+ (Renata Skobo, Hyun Kim) (unLiMITed)
Heather Roffe Dance (Twice Removed & Continuum)
Ariel Rivka Dance (Ori & Hallelujah Eva)

Program B: Sat, Jun 18, 9 pm & Sun, Jun 19, 2 pm
Sasha Spielvogel/Labyrinth Dance Theater (The Promise of Rest, Hidden, Taboo)
La P en V Innovative Dance Platform (Pulse)
Tomomi Imai (Hourglass)
Lori Belilove & The Isadora Duncan Dance Company (Dance of the Furies)

Program C: Sat, Jun 25, 7 pm & Sun, Jun 26, 4 pm
of bones || hollye bynum (Wash Me, Pretty Little Things)
Chien-Ying Wang & Paul C. Ocampo (Equanimity, Empathetic Colloquy)
The Chimera Project — The Hidden (Spot v.2)
WHITE WAVE Young Soon Kim Dance Company (“iyouuswe” (excerpts)

Program D: Sat, Jun 25, 9 m & Sun, Jun 26, 2 pm
Elizabeth Shea (Flawed, In the Seas)
Jeanette Stoner and Dancers (Dormant)
Azul Dance Theatre (Vision, Born Within)
Carolyn Dorfman Dance (Portrait excerpt, My Father’s Solo (from Mayne Mentshn-My People), Hourglass)