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Fire Island Dance Festival Sets a New Fundraising Record

Al Blackstone’s Not For Me For its 21st annual gathering in July, the Fire Island Dance Festival raised a record-breaking $544,555 for Dancers Responding to AIDS. Complexions Contemporary Ballet co-founder Desmond Richardson hosted the festival this year, which included world premieres by Al Blackstone (winner of the 2011 Capezio A.C.E. Award), Joshua Beamish, Pontus Lidberg, […]

Gaga and Forsythe at Harvard

It’s not often that practicing choreographers get a chance to workshop with of-the-moment pros. Harvard University dance students are currently creating their own works under the guidance of contemporary ballet choreographer Pontus Lidberg and Gallim Dance’s theatrical Andrea Miller. While in Cambridge, the two will also create work for dancers in the department, to be […]