A bright summer sun shimmered across the Great South Bay as renowned dance companies, acclaimed choreographers and three standing-room-only audiences came together at this year’s Fire Island Dance Festival on July 14-16, 2017. The 23rd edition of the fundraising and cultural event of the Fire Island

"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.

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

Each year, kerosense-soaked torches are held aloft as men donning traditional Viking attire—shields, helmets, capes—parade through watching crowds. The celebration culminates in the ceremonious burning of an enormous replica Viking ship. But alas, only the “Guizer Jarl and his Jarl Squad” (that is,

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...

The music theme for Tara in "Gone with the Wind," including some of teh stills of the famous academy award winning movie based on te novel by Margaret Mitchell published in May 1936. The movie was released in 1939 by MGM studios.

After ferrying over to the beach community of Fire Island last summer, we attended the inaugural Fire Island Opera Festival.

Once-in-a-lifetime pairings of ballet and contemporary luminaries, three remarkable world premieres, an excerpt of a seminal piece that changed the history of modern dance and unpredictable weather conditions marked this year’s sold-out Fire Island Dance Festival on July 20-22, 2018. The 24th editio

Diwali is certainly one of the biggest, brightest and most important festivals of India. While Diwali is popularly known as the "festival of lights". The celebration of Diwali as the "victory of good over evil" refers to the light of higher knowledge dispelling all ignorance. While the story behind ...

Earth - A Beautiful Planet: is a a view of the world from the eyes of a nature lover. A photo essay that highlights the beauty of light and color, water and fire, sand, beaches and flowers providings a definitive look at the diversity of our planet earth.