| Fire Island Dance Festival 2024 | |
| Posted by: Official_Press_Release 07:24 pm EDT 03/19/24 | |
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| Fire Island Dance Festival Returns with Extraordinary Dance July 19-21 in Fire Island Pines Experience World-Class Dance on Waterfront Stage with Leadership Supporter Perks or All-Inclusive Day Trip Package Produced by and Benefiting Dancers Responding to AIDS, a Program of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS Breathtaking dance set upon a backdrop of endless sky and sea returns when Fire Island Dance Festival, the charitable event of the Fire Island summer, makes its anticipated homecoming July 19-21, 2024. The three-performance celebration of established and emerging dance companies will again bring together the Fire Island Pines community to an awe-inspiring waterfront stage overlooking the Great South Bay. Fire Island Dance Festival (#fidance) is produced by and benefits Dancers Responding to AIDS, a program of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. Tickets go on sale today at dradance.org/fidance. Fire Island Dance Festival begins with an opening performance at 5 pm on Saturday, July 20, followed by a Leadership Supporter sunset performance at 7 pm, and a closing performance at 5 pm on Sunday, July 21. This year's host, performers and choreographers will be announced later this spring. Leadership Supporters elevate their festival experience with a kickoff performance and intimate evening cocktails on Friday, July 19. Coveted kickoff performance tickets are extremely limited. Leadership Supporters also enjoy their choice of the highly anticipated sunset performance on Saturday or priority seating at either 5 pm performance, as well as recognition on printed materials in the harbor and throughout the Pines. Leadership tickets start at $395. Individual tickets for the 5 pm performances are $195. Take the hustle and hassle out of your Fire Island escape with our day trip package, featuring round-trip transportation from New York City, a champagne luncheon and tickets to the 5 pm performance on Sunday, July 21. A Sunday VIP option, which includes the champagne luncheon and tickets to the Sunday show without transportation, also is available. The day trip package is $350; the Sunday VIP option is $275. Beginning May 25, tickets also will be available in person on weekends in the Fire Island Pines Harbor. To see this year's invitation, go to dradance.org/fidanceinvitation. Past festivals have welcomed acclaimed dance companies including A.I.M. by Kyle Abraham, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, American Ballet Theatre, Ballet Hispánico, Camille A. Brown & Dancers, Dorrance Dance, Parsons Dance and MOMIX and featured choreography by Robert Battle, Joshua Beamish, Jacqulyn Buglisi, Al Blackstone, Gemma Bond, Ayodele Casel, Ray Mercer, Caleb Teicher, Paul Taylor and Tony Award winners Rob Ashford, Jerry Mitchell, Justin Peck and Christopher Wheeldon. Since its debut in 1995, Fire Island Dance Festival has raised more than $8.4 million to help provide lifesaving medication, nutritious meals, counseling and emergency financial assistance to those in need in all 50 states, Washington D.C., and Puerto Rico. Fire Island Dance Festival is generously supported by corporate sponsors The New York Times and United, the official airline of Broadway Cares, with additional support from the P. Austin Family Foundation and The Charles and Lucille King Family Foundation in memory of Diana King. Dancers Responding to AIDS relies on the extraordinary compassion and efforts of the performing arts community to fund a safety net of social services for those in need. As a program of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, DRA supports the essential programs of the Entertainment Community Fund (formerly The Actors Fund), including the HIV/AIDS Initiative and The Dancers' Resource, as well as more than 450 AIDS and family service organizations nationwide. For more information, please visit Dancers Responding to AIDS at dradance.org, at facebook.com/DRAdance, at instagram.com/DRAdance and at youtube.com/DRAdance. |
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