Dawn States Dance Company
Dawn States Dance Company is an emergent dance company that centers disability as a viable and valuable approach to dance making. Disabled dancers curate the choreography and incorporate their perspective into the final performance. In addition, common access features such as sign language, audio description, and closed captioning are included as part of the performance. This current work examines the themes of connection, distance, closeness, and direction and explores this…
creativeWorks
Join us in the first salvo in the war to create culture worth warring over. Volume one of the earth shattering new creative journal, creativeworks.io is here for Fringe Fest ’21. Come for this vaguely exciting promo, stay for sights you’ve never seen, words never before uttered. All bets are off, we’re past the event horizon, and superlatives are a hoax. YOU have to act now. Drive your finger trains…
Crossover: A New Pop Musical
Meet Crossover, the newest singing competition to hit the airwaves with a streaming-era twist: the competing artists must prove that they’re adept at both writing and performing across different genres in order to claim the title of Crossover Champion. When four women tie in the regional competition, they reluctantly opt to compete on the national broadcast as a group: Four-Way Tie. As they navigate the ups and downs of sudden…
Casual Fantastic: Good Things
Songs with style. Enjoy a musical brew of rock ‘n’ roll, parlor pop, lounge punk, and backcountry noir with visual landscapes projected about the space. In this concert of storytelling songs of good and bad, whiskey and The Dollar General, Casual Fantastic navigates life’s darkness with sly humor—and life’s joys with an eye on the exit. Casual Fantastic features songwriter Josh McIlvain on guitar and vocals with Nikitas Menotiades on stand…
Dance of the Lanternfly
Dance movements are slowed down to interpret a lanternfly in motion through 24 poses of a second in time. Think Stanley Kubrick meets Eadweard Muybridge, as Philadelphia-based artist Dominique Ellis metamorphosizes to become larger-than-life. This is 2021: A Lanternfly Odyssey. You may spot the lanternfly throughout Historic Old City where Fringe Arts began 25 years ago.
An Artist Conversation
With a new album on the horizon, the Brian Shapiro Band showcases not just their musicianship, but their journey as artists. This universal messaging about what it is to be an artist will be front and center in this docu-story, An Artist Conversation. A performing artist since 1995, band founder Brian Shapiro shares his peripatetic artistic journey. Focusing on the trails, tribulations, roadblocks, and successes of making art, this deeply…
Alternative Theatre Festival
Alternative Theatre Festival Shows 2021: Once Upon A – Ever feel fixated on figuring out the meaning of a honeybun? Me neither. I would call this world a dystopia, but that assumes there is a system of meaningful suffering, but this play resides in themeaningless. No choices. Just words. Fun words. However, when the inhabitants bear witness to the story of Adam and Eve, they embark on a journey to…
Alexithymia
We follow the journey of Friend, a lost being who cannot understand their emotions, which has to their confusion caused their body to fragment. They need help in finding their way back to themselves. In order to learn the ways in which “we” feel, they will go on a sensorial exploration via the interaction of some new folks they meet along the way, in order to explore how our minds,…
Artifacts of No Consequence
Every act of remembering changes the memory. How do we see ourselves, when the most often-remembered stories become the most changed?Artifacts of No Consequence is an interactive exploration and solo show. It takes place in the Cottage at the Maas building, placed in a real, live bedroom, with a bed and everything. You’ll have to walk behind the kitchen to get to it. In this show, the audience is invited…
Adjust The Procedure
It’s early Fall 2020 and the pandemic consumes a Manhattan university. In addition to tracking rising cases of COVID on campus, the school’s administrators face immigration problems, suicide threats, and professors losing their minds. But in the midst of all the madness, it’s the internal bureaucratic battles that threaten the school’s preservation. Over the course of two conflict-ridden Zoom meetings, ADJUST THE PROCEDURE gives audiences a rare peek into the…
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