Performance

DAF Awards Ceremony

There are no losers at the Dumbo Arts Festival, but a few lucky talents won’t be leaving empty-handed. Join us in the Festival Lounge for the presentation of our three juried prizes and the inaugural AT&T Audience Award.

Great Small Works Procession: Tobacco Warehouse

Come to Tobacco Warehouse, roll up your sleeves, and make some simple puppets, cut-outs and flags. Then join Great Small Works and the Greatest Smallest Band in a procession through the streets of Dumbo.

Waterbombs!

Draw your swords! Waterbombs! is a hysterical water-balloon gladiator show with comic antics, flying water balloons, and loud opera music. Using no words, Acrobuffos deliver a gut-busting, interactive show that has thrilled crowds in 15 countries. An audience and press favorite around the globe and for all ages.

Asphalt Orchestra at St. Ann’s Warehouse

NYC’s Asphalt Orchestra redefines and re-contextualizes music from the concert halls, rock stages, and jazz clubs of the world — and brings it to new audiences in a way never heard or seen before. From galvanizing outdoor performances to trailblazing uses of the concert hall and indoor spaces, this 12-piece band of New York’s hottest brass, wind and percussion players brings together a wide swath of music into one breathtaking show.

White Wave Dance Company

White Wave presents our 2011 Dumbo Dance Festival, a three-day dance marathon of innovative contemporary dance, featuring both emerging and established dance-makers. This year’s Festival presents 113 companies with 400 performing artists from throughout the United States, Canada, Japan, and Korea. There will be many performances at the festival, and a Grand Finale at Fulton Ferry Landing. Consult our website for final schedule of events.

Panel Discussion: Immersive Surfaces

Join the artists, technicians, curators and producers of ‘Immersive Surfaces’ in a panel discussion covering the transactions and evolution of video art as it incorporates continual technological advances and new types of platforms.

Brooklyn Noir, A Benefit for Free Arts NYC

Burlesque, brass band, booze and dancing! Last year’s Dumbo Arts Festival featured the first Brass Underground, and after a great turnout with loads of smiling, dancing, and wide-eyed faces, we’ve decided to keep it going! Only this time, we’re doing it for the kids! Join us for a night of burlesque, music and raffles to help raise funds for Free Arts NYC, a wonderful organization that provides arts and mentorship programs to under-served children in NYC. The night starts with our signature cocktail open bar hour from 10 – 11PM and will feature the Stumblebum Brass Band playing live, as well as performances from some of New York’s premier burlesque beauties. Don’t miss the excitement or the chance to support Free Arts NYC!$30 admission.

The Hyperion Project

‘The Hyperion Project’ develops a synthesis between interactive technologies and performance, attempting to challenge an audience’s comfort and move beyond the ‘fourth wall,’ by forcing the audience into the performance. The work has been developed using live technologies, that respond in real time to the actions of the performers and audience, creating a space where everyone has both active and passive experiences.

Iron Pour

The Sculptors Guild will be hosting a molten iron demonstration where they will cast forty souvenir medallions before the eyes of festival goers on the streets of Brooklyn. Most of the medallions will be gifted to those onlookers who show the greatest enthusiasm shortly after they are broken free from their sand mold encasement.

The central players for this rarely seen spectacle of molten metal metallurgy will be Kenneth Payne, Michael Dominick, Gina Miccinilli, Adam Nowicki & Craig Usher. Joining these leather clad iron mongers will be a custom designed cupola furnace shipped from Buffalo, NY for this festival. Be sure to bring your cameras and beware, the iron bug is contagious! A fun, memorable and safe time is guaranteed for all.