STAGE TUBE: Fire Island Dance Festival Showcases Highlights

July 16 - July 18, the Fire Island Dance Fetsival took place to benefit Dancers Repsonding to AIDS, a program of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.  Below, BroadwayWorld brings you a clip of performance highligts from the weekend. FIDF 16 performers included: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Camille A. Brown, Fabrice Calmels & Erica Lynette Edwards (Principal, Joffrey Ballet Chicago), Catherine Hurlin, Gallim Dance, Marcelo Gomes (Principal, American Ballet Theatre), Mark Stuart Dance Theatre, Merce Cunningham Dance Company, MOMIX, Stephen Petronio Company, Yuan Yuan Tan & DamIan Smith (Principals, San Francisco Ballet), Piece d'Occasion - Shea Sullivan, Travis Wall with Teddy Forance and Nick Lazzarini.

The festival is presented by Dancers Responding to AIDS with generous support from The Fund in the Sun.

Since its founding in 1995, the annual Fire Island Dance Festival has become the Island's premier entertainment event. Each year, scores of famed and fast-rising dance artists perform on a waterfront stage specially built for the festival, with the Great South Bay as a backdrop. Festival events include performances with pre or post performance cocktail receptions as well as a private party for leadership supporters.

FIDF has presented some of the biggest names in American dance, including Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, American Ballet Theatre, Bill T. Jones/ Arnie Zane Dance Company, Birmingham Royal Ballet, Complexions Contemporary Ballet, Doug Varone and Dancers, Lar Lubovitch Dance Company, Mark Morris Dance Group, MOMIX, Parsons Dance, Paul Taylor Dance Company, Pilobolus, Peter Quanz, Rob K. Brown's Evidence, Sean Curran Dance Company and many more.

Since its debut in 1995 Fire Island Dance Festival has raised cumulatively more than $1.9 million in the fight against AIDS.