The Hudson Valley Dance Festival, which was held October 13, raised a record-breaking $170,629 during two sold-out performances inside a converted 19th-century warehouse. 

The 11th annual edition of the dance festival welcomed audiences to Catskill Point in Catskill, New York, with a program spanning styles from contemporary and ballet to Broadway and ballroom culture.

Produced by and benefiting Dancers Responding to AIDS, a program of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, proceeds will help ensure those in the Hudson Valley as well as those across the country living with HIV/AIDS and other debilitating illnesses have access to lifesaving medications, counseling, healthy meals, and housing.

This year’s Hudson Valley Dance Festival included world premieres created by Broadway’s Billy Griffin, dance collective Masterz At Work Dance Family, Hudson Valley-based MorDance, and many more.

Griffin’s On Broadway explored the contrast between the glamour of a career in theatre and the disillusionment that can seep in when the curtain falls. Khori Petinaud, last seen in Broadway’s Lempicka, was featured in the premiere.

In celebration of the festival’s 11th year, Broadway Cares will provide additional discretionary grants of $2,500 to each of the 16 Hudson Valley organizations that are part of Broadway Cares’ National Grants Program: Albany Damien Center in Albany; Alliance for Positive Health in Albany; Animalkind in Hudson; Catskill Food Pantry in Catskill; Broadway Education Alliance in Rhinebeck; Columbia County Recovery Kitchen in Hudson; Columbia-Greene Humane Society/SPCA in Hudson; The Community Hospice in Albany; Dutchess Outreach in Poughkeepsie; Greenport Rescue Squad in Hudson; Hudson Valley LGBTQ Community Center in Kingston; Matthew 25 Food Pantry in Catskill; Rock Steady Farm in Millerton; Roe Jan Food Pantry in Hillsdale; TOUCH (Together Our Unity Can Heal) in Congers; and Troy Area United Ministries in Troy.

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