Dance with ON THE TOWN's Chip Abbott to Benefit Actors' Equity's 2017 Falat Basket Project

The Actors' Equity Foundation will host a series of donation dance classes to benefit its annual Falat Basket Project.

On April 6, 2017, you are invited to come and dance with Chip Abbott at Actors' Equity Association's Audition Center.

Abbott garnered a Tony nominee for best choreography for his work as assistant choreographer and dance captain to Joshua Bergasse on the Broadway revival of On the Town.

All of the donations will go to benefit the Foundation's historic and important Falat Basket Project. Since 1985, the volunteer-run Stephen J. Falat Basket Project's holiday gift baskets (clothing, candy, toys, toiletries and more) and delivers them to local New York hospitals and organizations to brighten the holidays of men, women and children living with HIV/AIDS. During the first two weeks of December, the baskets are assembled and delivered by a group of dedicated volunteers.

Said the Foundation's Managing Director, Joan Glazer, "The Falat Basket Project is one of the most important contributions of this Foundation. We want to increase awareness of this amazing, volun- teer-led holiday tradition so that we can continue to help and provide for people living with HIV/AIDS. I can't think of a better way to donate to this incredible program then to take a dance class with some of Broadway's best dancers and then relax with an evening of yoga. And, all for a small - or large - tax-deductible donation."

To purchase tickets, visit dancewithAEF.brownpapertickets.com.

Additional classes are planned for May and June, including a yoga class and another dance class, this time with Adam Cates, associate choreographer for Broadway's Anastasia, the Tony Award-winning A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder and Anything Goes, among others.

Established in 1962, the Actors' Equity Foundation, a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization, exists to support the professional theatre community, from emerging artists to seasoned vets, while promoting and investing in theatre and the performing arts.

Chip Abbott is a New York City based choreographer and dancer who's performance career spans the worlds of concert dance, commercial dance, and Broadway. He recently choreographed Disney's The Little Mermaid at Red Mountain The- atre Company and restaged On the Town at the San Francisco Symphony (Bergasse choreography, restaged).

Abbott served as assistant choreographer and dance captain to Joshua Bergasse on the Broadway Revival of On the Town, a Tony nominee for best choreography. Other theatre credits include: the national tours of Andy Blankenbuehler's Joseph...Dreamcoat, and R+H's Cinderella. He has been seen on the TODAY Show, The Tony Awards (CBS) and has performed at the Kennedy Center, Madison Square Garden, and Radio City Music Hall in the Radio City Christmas Spectacular. He is a master teacher, having taught at Oklahoma City University, University of Central Oklahoma, Boston Conserva- tory, and is also a guest teacher at Broadway Dance Center in New York City. Chip is a proud graduate of Oklahoma City University!