Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo - Hudson Valley Dance Festival 2016

At the Hudson Valley Dance Festival, the all-male dance troupe Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo performed a playfully parodied rendition of the pas de deux from Le Corsaire, one of classical ballet’s most famous excerpts. The audience smiled in delight and frequently applauded as the refined ballerinos presented the traditional form in an imaginative, unexpected way. Dance lovers and performers alike gathered on the shores of the Hudson River on October 8, 2016, to celebrate the fourth annual Hudson Valley Dance Festival in Catskill, NY. The two performances at Historic Catskill Point raised a record-breaking $136,767 for Dancers Responding to AIDS, a program of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. Dancers Responding to AIDS, founded in 1991 by 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 $285 million for essential services for people with AIDS and other critical illnesses across the United States.