Black Circus Family Extravaganza and Cookout
Circus performances, drum lines, food and treats for the celebrating Black Circus Week. See jaw-dropping acts and inspiring short works highlighting incredible artists with a diverse array of circus skills, and enjoy a day of fun for the whole family. It’ll be a party! Hosted by Alyssa Bigbee. Artist lineup: Juic3OrchidDanny_The_AcrobatAlanna La PrimadonnaLuciany (Lucy) GermanMikki Everette
Black Circus After Dark
Circus artists of all disciplines – aerialists, jugglers, acrobats and clowns — from all over the country get loose and wild in the first ever Black Circus Week After Dark Cabaret. Hosted by Zelos Marchandt. Artist lineup:Christina Gainey (cdawg)Katie OrelienKiara WilliamsJulia (JB) BaccellieriJayla JohnsonMel Robinson
Birthday Party
Birthday Party is a fast-pace, contemporary, circus, comedy that showcases the complex relationships humans have to being born, being alive and celebrating those milestones. During this 45 minute production, the artists and the audience will be exploring the history, science, and social culture of birthdays, gift giving, and getting older. With partner-acrobatics, aerial arts and all-original music, it’s a show full of surprises and a few sweet treats. Birthday Party…
Bicycle Shorts
Award-winning films from Bicycle Shorts Film Festival 2024 combined with in-person monologues by actors and filmmakers. You’ll see riveting travelogues, trippy animation, laugh-out-loud comedy. You’ll hear bicycling anecdotes, behind-the-scenes accounts, YBC’s origin story. There will be bikes!
Beryl Booker
This is a jazz story about talent, traveling, 1950s Philadelphia, and what constitutes a break in music and in life. Beryl Booker was a self-taught pianist and singer who played with a large number of male jazz stars in the late 1940s and early 1950s and led her own bands. She was one of a few women in the 1950s who broke barriers in the male-centric genre of jazz. She…
Beowulf
This fierce one-person retelling of Beowulf modernizes the wit, vigor, and meaty language of the original epic. John Heimbuch performs Charlie Bethel’s tour-de-force adaptation of the classic Old English poem about a warrior king and three famous monsters in this Fringe Festival favorite. John Heimbuch has been telling this powerful tale at theatres, festivals, bars, parks, schools, living rooms, and firesides around the country since 2019. “Just one man, no set, no costume but a hell…
Beautiful Human Lies: Chapter 4 (Work-in-Progress Showing)
Preview a work-in-progress of a 2025 Fringe show! Rennie Harris and Megan Bridge first worked on a version of this dance in 1999. 25 years later, this new work is a conversation about race, cultural appropriation, privilege, and the passage of time—choreographed by Harris and performed by Bridge.
Bears Tonight
A family of bears is forced to make the ultimate choice between the opportunity of a lifetime and hibernation. Exploring family dynamics, physical differences, and teamwork, Bears Tonight reminds us of the meaning of gift-giving and that sometimes growing means letting go.
authentic grief baby monologue
authentic grief baby monologue, a solo dance theater show written and performed by marisa illingworth, uses conversational storytelling and movement exploration to unpack themes of queerness, mortality, grief, and rebirth. stories of the loss of her mother from cancer, and of coming out of the closet during the pandemic, drive home the complex realization that our bodies sometimes bear undeniable transformations. in presenting their moving body, processing loss and profound…
AQUA Connection
Aqua Connection, a 60 minute mixed media Aerial Dance production (silk, rope, net, trapeze) explores a symbolic connection between humans and water. Once the artists finish, an engaged dialogue with the audience will explore how we interact with the most important resource on our planet. The intention is to bring attention, inquiry and awe to the community, as we share emotions & thoughts linked to the duality of our experience…
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