The Fire Island Dance Festival returns to Fire Island Pines for a trio of outdoor party/performances on Saturday, July 19 and Sunday, July 20, 2008. Now in its 14th year, FIDF is produced by and benefits Dancers Responding to AIDS (DRA), a program of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.
Performing outdoors against a backdrop of the Great South Bay, FIDF 14 will feature an eclectic program of classical and contemporary ballet, modern dance, tap and hip hop performed by eleven emerging and world renowned dance companies. World premiere dances will be presented by Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Atlanta Ballet, Ballet Hispanico, Jermaine Browne, Parsons Dance, Jason Samuels Smith and Jerry Mitchell for Rasta Thomas' Bad Boys of Dance as well as repertory pieces from Jacoby & Pronk, Lar Lubovitch Dance Company, Jennifer Muller / The Works, and Ellis Wood Dance. Saturday's emcee is Whoopi Goldberg, host of this year's Tony Awards®, moderator of ABC TV's "The View," and – as producer, actress, singer, writer and comedienne – one of the few individuals to have won all four of the major show business awards: the Oscar, the Tony, the Emmy, and the Grammy. Sunday's emcee is comedy club favorite Caroline Rhea original host of TV's "The Biggest Loser". An accomplished actress, Rhea has had featured roles in both film ('The Perfect Man," "Man on the Moon") and television ("Sabrina, The Teenage Witch," Lifetime's "Fat Like Me").Whoopi Goldberg Photo by Mark Rupp
Caroline Rhea Photo by Retna Digital Ltd.
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