The event's three performances, held on the weekend of July 20 and emceed by Whoopi Goldberg and Phylicia Rashad, featured eleven dances by the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Battleworks Dance Company, The Chase Brock Experience, Corbin Dances, Darrel Grand Moultrie, Jorge Guzman & Willem DeVries, MOMIX, Pascal Rioult Dance Company, Tapaholics, Travis Wall & Ivan Koumaev, and Trey McIntyre Project.
DRA's Choreographic Sponsorships, established last year, resulted in the premiere of six works created expressly for the festival.
The Fire Island Dance Festival was founded in 1995 and has since raised $1,372,393 for Dancers Responding to AIDS, a fundraising program of Broadway Cares / Equity Fights AIDS.