Dancers Responding to AIDS (DRA), a fundraising program of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, is the American dance community’s ongoing response to the AIDS epidemic. Founded in June 1991 by former Paul Taylor dancers Hernando Cortez and Denise Roberts Hurlin, DRA seeks to mobilize the dance community, increase awareness, and raise money to provide direct financial assistance and desperately needed services to dance professionals with HIV/AIDS.

DRA raises these important funds by producing special events and conducting audience appeals in New York City and nationwide. Some of our special events include the annual Fire Island Dance Festival, Dances From the Heart and the DRA Studio of the Year, which enables thousands of young dancers to actively involve themselves in helping those living with HIV/AIDS.