NEW YORK — Organizers of the Fire Island Dance Festival announced Tuesday that the annual event will take place July 14-16.
Considered the longest-running charitable event of New York’s LGBTQ community, the festival will feature established and emerging choreographers and dance companies that will perform on the waterfront stage in Fire Island Pines.
Since its 1995 debut, the event has raised more than $7.7 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, organizers said.
Throughout the years, the event has welcomed dance companies such as A.I.M by Kyle Abraham, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, American Ballet Theatre, Ballet Hispanico and Camille A. Brown & Dancers.
Featured choreographers have included Robert Battle, Paul Taylor and Tony Award winners Rob Ashford, Jerry Mitchell, Justin Peck and Christopher Wheeldon.
The 2023 Fire Island Dance Festival is produced by and on behalf of Dancers Responding to AIDS, a nonprofit program within Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.
The host, performers and choreographers for this year’s event will be announced in the near future.
Tickets, ranging in price from $175 (with a tax-deductible donation of $135) to $375, are now on sale.
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