Fire Island Dance Fesitval 16, produced by and benefiting Dancers Responding to AIDS, a program of Broadway Cares / Equity Fights AIDS, raised over $260,000.
FIDF 16 performers included: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Camille A. Brown, Fabrice Calmels & Erica Lynette Edwards (Principal, Joffr...

In this edition of Male Ballet Dancers V we feature Portugal's Antonio-Casalinho. With a history dating back more than four hundred years, ballet has progressed from Renaissance court pageantry to royal entertainment to full-fledged performing art. It is often misunderstood as a form of dance mea

In this tenth installment of contemporary and ballet male dancers we showcase Argentinian dancer Luciano Perotto in several warming training sessions. We also present the number of male dance students at the University of Arizona have increased significantly in recent years. We also introduce

Fire Island Dance Festival celebrated its 20th anniversary edition July 18-20, 2014, with artistry, gravity-defying movement, romance and remembrance, raising a record-shattering $533,860 for Dancers Responding to AIDS, a program of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.The festival, performed outdoors

In this twenty-eight episode of MALE BALLET DANCERS we introduce Ociel Gone from Cuba, Federico Javier Fleitas from Paraguay and Israel Rodriguez who danced for the Orlando Ballet and is also originally from Cuba. With a history dating back more than four hundred years, ballet has progressed from

Contemporary dance is a genre of dance performance that developed during the mid-twentieth century and has since grown to become one of the dominant genres for formally trained dancers throughout the world, with particularly strong popularity in the U.S. and Europe. In this episode we introduce the...

In this fifth edition of Male Ballet Dancers, we feature four soloist from the Kiev Ballet in Ukraine. With a history dating back more than four hundred years, ballet has progressed from Renaissance court pageantry to royal entertainment to full-fledged performing art. It is often misunderstood a

There are years that history remembers as flash points of political change — 1776, 1848, 1968 — and when the dust settles, it seems inevitable that 2017 will join that list. It was a period of upheaval from the very start: we were only three weeks into the year, and Donald Trump’s presidency was onl

In this insrtalment of our Male Ballet Dancers series we showcase two master ballet dancer; Denys Cherevychko, Principal Dancer of the Vienna State Opera peerformning Mazurka choreographed by Serge Lifar as well as french Paul Marque who was named in 2020 an étoile (literally, "star"), the highest

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...