Fire Island Dance Festival 16 Promo Video

Since its founding in 1995, the annual Fire Island Dance Festival has become the Islands premier entertainment event. It has twice been hailed by Sunday Styles of The New York Times as One of the 12 best parties of the year and celebrated by Out Magazine as Summers hottest charity event.

The weekend-long festival is produced by and benefits Dancers Responding to AIDS (DRA), a program of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS (BC/EFA). Each year, scores of famed and fast-rising dance artists perform on a waterfront stage specially built for the festival, with the Great South Bay as a backdrop. Festival events include performances with pre or post performance cocktail receptions as well as a private party for leadership supporters.

FIDF has presented some of the biggest names in American dance, including Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, American Ballet Theatre, Bill T. Jones/ Arnie Zane Dance Company, Birmingham Royal Ballet, Complexions Contemporary Ballet, Doug Varone and Dancers, Lar Lubovitch Dance Company, Mark Morris Dance Group, MOMIX, Parsons Dance, Paul Taylor Dance Company, Pilobolus, Peter Quanz, Rob K. Browns Evidence, Sean Curran Dance Company and many more.

Since its debut in 1995 Fire Island Dance Festival has raised cumulatively more than $1.9 million in the fight against AIDS.