Stars of Tomorrow...Giving Back Today

Returning for its 10th consecutive year, Stars of Tomorrow…Giving Back Today brings more than 400 students from 16 dance studios in the tri-state area to the Performing Arts Center at Purchase College to showcase their talent on Sunday, February 26.

This unique performance opportunity benefits Dancers Responding to AIDS, a program of Broadway Cares/ Equity Fights AIDS and highlights the passion these students have to help others through their talent.

This year’s participating studios are Allegra Dance Studio (Greenwich, CT), City Center Dance (White Plains, NY), Connecticut Dance Conservatory (Stratford, CT), Dance Etc., School for Performing Arts, Inc.(Newtown, CT), Dance Innovations (Chatham, NJ), Darien Arts Center-Dance (Darien, CT), Infinite Motion Performing Arts Academy (Mahwah, NJ), InnerSoul Dance Project (Bellmore, NY), JAM Dance and Fitness Center (Bellmore, NY), Monroe Dance Academy (Monroe, CT), New Jersey Dance Theatre Ensemble (Westfield, NJ), New York Performing Arts Center (White Plains, NY), NewDance (Rye Brook, NY), Peridance Youth Ensemble (New York, NY), Strut Your Stuff Performing Arts (College Point, NY), The Pulse Performing Arts Studio (Bedford Hills, NY) and Variations, a dancer’s studio (Huntington, NY).

Tickets are available at participating studios and at the door for $25. A pre-performance reception and gift basket fundraiser will begin at 5 pm followed by the performance at 6:30 pm.

Dancers Responding to AIDS, founded in 1991 by Purchase College graduates and former Paul Taylor Dance Company members Denise Roberts Hurlin and Hernando Cortez, is a program of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, one of the nation’s leading industry-based, nonprofit AIDS fundraising and grant-making organizations.

By drawing upon the talents, resources and generosity of the American theatre and dance communities, since 1988 Broadway Cares has raised more than $195 million for essential services for people with AIDS and other critical illnesses across the United States.