Dancers Responding to AIDS, founded in 1991 by former Paul Taylor Dance Company members Denise Roberts Hurlin and Hernando Cortez, is a program of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, one of the nation's leading industry-based, nonprofit AIDS fundraising and grant-making organizations. By drawing upon...

Since the first performance in 1995, the annual Fire Island Dance Festival has become the Island's most anticipated cultural event of the season. Fire Island Dance Festival features an eclectic mix of world-renowned and emerging dancers, dance companies and choreographers. The weekend-long festival ...

Project Moves Dance Company shocked the audience at Fire Island Dance Festival 18 as five young dancers began their number wearing signs with homophobic slurs. Committed to sharing a powerful message of human respect and acceptance, the Massachusetts-based dance company ultimate shed the insults an...

If you could be straight, would you? Buzzfeed posed this thought provoking question to several members of our LGBT community, with one person responding: “It probably would have been a lot easier.” Another adds: “We as gay people have to go to gay-themed events, gay bars, gay clubs, whereas a straig

Fire Island Dance Festival features an eclectic mix of famed and fast-rising dancers performing on a stunning waterfront stage with the Great South Bay as a backdrop.

Created to benefit Dancers Responding to AIDS with generous support from Legacy Sponsors Peter McKown and Kenneth Heng and Legacy Sponsors David Benaym and Danny Tidwell Benaym.
Music: Bobby Darin Coreagraphy: Al Blackstone.

Founded in 1991, Dancers Responding to AIDS, was the dance community’s first ongoing effort to support those living with HIV/AIDS. As a program of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, we help fund social service organizations in all 50 states and the essential programs of The Actors Fund.

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“At long last, a public, permanent, and very visible landmark that acknowledges not only that something tragic happened but also that something beautiful happened in terms of the LGBTQ community’s responding advocacy and care giving. That’s what lead Sawyer to join the memorial’s board of directors

et upon a picture-perfect sky on the Fire Island Pines’ glistening Great South Bay, the 25th anniversary edition of Fire Island Dance Festival brought together a diverse, captivating program of world premieres, dance legends and stirring storytelling. The festival on July 19-21 raised a record-shatt