Further performances have been revealed for this year's Hudson Valley Dance Festival, coming to Historic Catskill Point in Catskill, New York October 11. The annual dance festival produced by and benefiting Broadway Cares' Dancers Responding to AIDS program will offer performances of ballet, contemporary, and more.
Newly announced for the festival are ABT Studio Company's presentation of Yannick Lebrun’s Human (starring Kayla Mak), Leggy Bones Physical Theater acrobatic duet Nocturne (performed by company founders Casey Howes and Jake Warren), Verdon Fosse Legacy's revival of Fosse's iconic Damn Yankees duet "Who's Got the Pain," and two new excerpts of work from Parsons Dance (a piece choreographed by David Parsons to Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9), and a new work by ballroom artist Courtney Balenciaga Washington.
They join the previously announced acts, including Jon Lehrer Dance Company's Solstice; Broadway performer and choreographer Reed Luplau's personal contemporary work A Single Man, dancer and choreographer Dario Natarelli's brand new tap piece, and New Chamber Ballet's Mandragore, an entwined pointe duet for two ballerinas.
The festival aims to transform the passion and creativity of dancers and audiences into tangible help for those in need. Through Dancers Responding to AIDS, each ticket purchase and sponsorship helps provide performing artists and people across the country living with HIV/AIDS and other debilitating illnesses with access to lifesaving medications, counseling, healthy meals, and emergency assistance.
The Hudson Valley Dance Festival began in 2013, and has since helped fund vital social services in all 50 states, Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C., including support for 18 organizations in the Hudson Valley.
For tickets and more information, visit DRADance.org.