Twenty-six dancers direct from New York City arrived on the shores of the Fire Island Pines on June 2, 2018, and raised a record-breaking $59,207 for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. Broadway Bares Fire Island serves as a seductive, intimate preview for this summer’s 28th edition of Broadway Bares

The first case of a crocodile who made herself pregnant has been identified at a zoo in Costa Rica.
She produced a foetus that was 99.9% genetically identical to herself. The phenomenon of so-called "virgin birth" has been found in species of birds, fish and other reptiles, but never before in croc...

"Rise" choreographed by Charlie Williams for the 2015 Fire Island Dance Festival. Danced By:Karine Plantadit Chase Madigan Adam Perry Logan Schyvynck Jakob Karr, Raymond Matsamura and Adam Perry.

When Tennessee Williams first met Frank Merlo, a handsome, athletic, working-class Italian-American from NJ at a Provincetown bar in 1947, he was already the celebrated playwright of The Glass Menagerie. What began as a one-night tryst turned into a 14-year romantic partnership, which they also enjo...

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...

Seth Sikes - Filmed at Fire Island Pines 2022 Based on “Theme from San Francisco”by Bronislaw Kaper and Walter Jurmann As performed by Judy Garland.
Additional Lyrics by Seth Sikes and Lisa Lambert .
Footage by Luis Villabon, Jack Aaronson. Drone footage by Isaac Namdar.

At the 2017 Fire Island Dance Festival, Havana, Cuba’s Acosta Danza, led by dance legend Carlos Acosta, presented For Us, a mesmerizing ballet that explored the passion, frustration and sadness of a couple in love. Dancers Mario Sergio Elías and Raul Reinoso expressed this tragic love story through

A Look Back at Pines Party 2018
A look at last summer's biggest all-night beach party in the Fire Island Pines benefiting The Pines Foundation and Stonewall Community Foundation. The Pines Foundation is pleased to invite you to
Pines Party 2019 - Island of Lost Boys

Performed on the shores of the Great South Bay July 15-17, Fire Island Dance Festival raised $655,090 to help ensure those across the country living with HIV/AIDS, COVID-19 and other debilitating illnesses have access to lifesaving medications, counseling, healthy meals, housing and more. Produced b

Stromboli volcano erupts, caused the formation of a tsunami 1.5 meters high. A strong eruption of Stromboli volcano Sunday afternoon, December 4, 2022 triggered a 1.5-meter-high tsunami off the island. Alarms sounded on the island but, according to the first investigations by the Civil Protection...