Photo Coverage: DANCE FROM THE HEART BC/EFA Benefit
By: Peter James Zielinski Jan. 27, 2009
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The Cedar Lake Theater in West Chelsea came to life on Friday, January 23 with a thrilling evening of dance to benefit Dancers Responding To AIDS (DRA), a program of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS (BCEFA). Hosted by Tony Award winning choreographer Rob Ashford, the gala event was a soul-stirring showcase of the best and brightest from today's varied dance landscape with performances by American Ballet Theatre, Battleworks, Broadway's "Billy Elliott," Camille A. Brown, Dresden Ballet, Les Ballet Grandiva, Paul Taylor Dance Company, and Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre. The program also featured the world premiere of TITLE by choreographer Chase Brock performed by NYCB principal Tiler Peck.
Founded in 1991, by former Paul Taylor Dancers Denise Roberts Hurlin and Hernando Cortez, DRA encompasses a network of professional dance companies who raise money through audience appeals and performing DRA events, the Dance Student Outreach Project, and other wide-ranging dance organizations. Proceeds from the evening will be distributed in two ways. The BCEFA National Grants program grants money to almost 500 AIDS and Family Service Organizations across the country as well as in Canada, Puerto Rico and South Africa. Residual funds are also awarded to seven programs of The Actors' Fund of America.
The performance and party took place at the Cedar Lake Theater in the heart of the Chelsea Gallery District at 547 West 26th Street, between 10th and 11th Avenues. For more information, visit www.dradance.org.
Photos by Peter James Zielinski
Camille A. Brown Dance Company
Camille A. Brown Dance Company
Camille A. Brown Dance Company
Belen Estrada
Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre's Maribel Modorno and Christopher Rendall-Jackson
Maribel Modorno and Christopher Rendall-Jackson
Maribel Modorno and Christopher Rendall-Jackson
Maribel Modorno and Christopher Rendall-Jackson
Maribel Modorno and Christopher Rendall-Jackson
Maribel Modorno and Christopher Rendall-Jackson
Maribel Modorno and Christopher Rendall-Jackson
Battleworks' Marlena Wolf
Battleworks' Marlena Wolf
Battleworks' Marlena Wolf
Battleworks' Marlena Wolf
Battleworks' Marlena Wolf
American Ballet Theatre's Daniil Simkin
American Ballet Theatre's Daniil Simkin
American Ballet Theatre's Daniil Simkin
American Ballet Theatre's Daniil Simkin
Dresden SemperOper Ballett
Yumiko Takeshima and Raphael Coumes-Marquet
Yumiko Takeshima and Raphael Coumes-Marquet
Yumiko Takeshima and Raphael Coumes-Marquet
Yumiko Takeshima and Raphael Coumes-Marquet
Yumiko Takeshima and Raphael Coumes-Marquet
Les Ballets Grandiva
Les Ballets Grandiva
Les Ballets Grandiva
Les Ballets Grandiva
Les Ballets Grandiva
Les Ballets Grandiva
Rob Ashford and DRA Founding Director Denise Roberts Hurlin
Paul Taylor Dance Company
Paul Taylor Dance Company
Paul Taylor Dance Company
Paul Taylor Dance Company
Paul Taylor Dance Company
Paul Taylor Dance Company
Paul Taylor Dance Company
Paul Taylor Dance Company
Paul Taylor Dance Company
Paul Taylor Dance Company
Paul Taylor Dance Company
Paul Taylor Dance Company
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