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Ana Gasteyer will emcee the Fire Island Dance Festival, the annual benefit for Dancers Responding to AIDS, which will take place July 15-16 at the Fire Island Pines.

This year's event, entitled 12 By 12, will feature new works from choreographers Timothy Bish and Christopher Davis, both of whom are well established Broadway dancers. Other companies that will offer world premieres and old favorites include American Repertory Ballet, Axis Danz, Julian Barnett Project, Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet, Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Lar Lubovitch Dance Company, MOMIX, Peter Quanz, Verb Ballets, and Kevin Wynn Collection.

Gasteyer is currently starring on Broadway as Mrs. Peachum in The Threepenny Opera. Her other stage credits include the Broadway production of The Rocky Horror Show, the Chicago production of Wicked, and The Actors' Fund benefit concerts of Hair and Funny Girl. She is known to television viewers for her work on Saturday Night Live.

Tickets to the Fire Island Dance Festival are $100-$850 and can be ordered by calling 212-840-0770 or visiting www.dradance.org.