This weekend is the fabulous - Fire Island Dance Festival Friday, July 19 -Sunday the 21st featuring more than 40 dancers from world-class dance companies. Wildly entertaining humorist and actor Mo Rocca returns this summer for a second turn as host of Fire Island Dance Festival, the most-anticipated charity event to land on the shores of the Great South Bay. It is produced by and benefits Dancers Responding to AIDS, a program of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. The 19th edition includes a stunningly varied program spanning Broadway to ballet, performed outdoors at a landmark bay-front home. Tickets are still available.
· Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, displaying an explosive confrontation of wits and prowess in Robert Battle's "Strange Humors"
· BODYTRAFFIC, performing "o2Joy," an expression of sheer joy set to great American jazz music that is peppered with syncopated hip-hop and drenched in light-hearted humor
· The Broadway Dance Lab, founded by Broadway choreographer Josh Prince, celebrating the repeal of the U.S. military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy in a music theatre piece set to "The Anvil Chorus"
· Evidence, A Dance Company, honoring the life and memory of dancer Beth Young in a heartfelt, joyous excerpt from "Torch"
· Robert Fairchild and Tiler Peck, principal dancers at New York City Ballet, presenting "A Place For Us," a playfully romantic duet by internationally acclaimed choreographer Christopher Wheeldon
· Kyle Abraham/Abraham.In.Motion, hailed by Out Magazine as the "best and brightest creative talent to emerge in New York City in the age of Obama," premiering a fast-paced group piece set to "Beautiful Mechanical" by yMusic
· Lar Lubovitch Dance Company, presenting the most famous male duet in the international dance world, "Concerto Six-Twenty Two"
· Pontus Lidberg, one of the great choreographic talents of Sweden, premiering a contemporary ballet piece featuring New York City Ballet principal dancer Adrian Danchig-Waring
· Jeremy McQueen, displaying his meticulous, kinetic choreography in a world premiere set to Macklemore & Ryan Lewis' No. 1 single "Can't Hold Us"
· Paul Taylor Dance Company, depicting the 1960's appetite for love and drugs in a solo from "A Field of Grass" performed by Robert Kleinendorst
· Keigwin + Company, an electrifying contemporary dance company that embodies a theatrical sensibility of wit, style and heart will present a special performance this Friday, July 19, as part of an exclusive festival kick-off event that is reserved for Leadership Supporters.
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