Brooklyn Choreographer Talks 9th Annual Cool NY Festival
By Carrie Stern
In 2001 choreographer Young Soon Kim pulled off a coup. “I’d never created a festival,” she says now. But in 2000, opening her arms to her intimate John Ryan Theater, she “landed in DUMBO in this incredible space.”
The first DUMBO Dance Festival, part of the larger DUMBO Arts Festival, opened barely a month after 9/11. “Being a curator and producer was totally new to me, but even the first year, DUMBO Dance Festival was an instant success,” says Kim.