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Photo Coverage: DANCE FROM THE HEART BC/EFA Benefit

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

Belen Estrada

Rob Ashford

Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre's Maribel Modorno and Christopher Rendall-Jackson

Maribel Modorno and Christopher Rendall-Jackson

Battleworks' Marlena Wolf

American Ballet Theatre's Daniil Simkin

Dresden SemperOper Ballett

Yumiko Takeshima and Raphael Coumes-Marquet

Billy Elliot's David Alvarez

Les Ballets Grandiva

Carlos Lopez

Peter Sachon

Carlos Lopez

Rob Ashford and DRA Founding Director Denise Roberts Hurlin

Paul Taylor Dance Company

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