Dying Well
Dying WellHow do memories shape grief? What does remembering feel like? This movement performance is a meditation on living and dying in every moment–an invitation to explore ideas of emerging and persisting, waning and fading. Not sorrowful, but wonder-full, Dying Well establishes a cycle in four parts–Tender Eyes: fascination with beginnings and not clinging to permanence; Rooted: the evolution of shaping, fatiguing, and dissipating; Withering: meeting and making sense of…
Das Sofortvergnügen (THE INSTANT PLEASURE)
A dance-theatre spectacle about insatiable desires, [in]convenience, [im]patience, and the need to get things now. THE INSTANT PLEASURE is a fast paced and silly joy-scroll, searching for what’s beyond the constant craving to want more, within the contrasts of queer existence in a capitalist society. The show recontextualizes memes, idioms, bits, and personal anecdotes while borrowing from a versatile artistic legacy that includes Pina Bausch, Steve Reich, The Simpsons, SpongeBob…
Cirque Us Stories
From the creators of RagTag: A Circus in Stitches and One Man’s Trash: A Repurposed Circus, Cirque Us Stories is an adventure that jumps off the pages as we put new spins, twists and flips into classic stories. This show features aerialists, jugglers, acrobats, contortionists and clowns in a page-turning show that will keep you on the edge of your seats.
Citrus Andronicus
What happens when you take a play about revenge and pair it with fruit? The Philadelphia Artists’ Collective, a theatre company known for soaring the greatest heights and plumbing the silliest depths in classical comedy, presents a devised piece inspired by Shakespeare’s most bloody tragedy, Titus Andronicus. Using fruit. A well-meaning scholar encounters two clowns bearing fruit (the real kind, not metaphorical). Why are they there? What do they want?…
Carnelian
Carnelian is an eclectic musical written by Lex Brown and co-composed by Samuel Beebe. In the course of a day, three mythical figures – Necyria, Bicyclus, and Orachrysops – await the imminent arrival of a cataclysmic event: the “Boom.” Throughout 8 songs, each character contends with their own definition of power, whether it be natural, political, technological, or spectacular. Carnelian’s debut at the Fringe brings these genre-bending songs to life with the…
CANCELED: Cirque Du Heauxleil
This show has been canceled. Step right up, step right up! We’ve got clowns, cheese, tease, and sleaze! Cirque Du Heauxleil is Philly’s premiere salacious circus sideshow; peek inside the tent and prepare to be amazed by our poledancing clowns, bed of nails strangebabes, and our resident human pincushion. Featuring Mxstress Lilith, Legs Akimbo, hard feeler, Malice, Riker Grieves, these queer clowns will have you screaming in terror and delight…bring a…
Benevolent Misconduct: A Vision for the Future of Art Making
Welcome to the Benevolent Misconduct Society! Drawing on the work of Felix Rosado (Healing Futures Program Coordinator at the Youth Art & Self-empowerment Project) we will be gathering to examine what the abolition of our current funding systems in the arts could look like. We will be adapting Felix’s work in abolition of the prison systems to examine these questions: What needs do we have that aren’t being addressed by…
Best-Laid Plans
“Best-Laid Plans” defies convention by exploring artistic experimentation and vulnerability. This showcase grants intimate access to artists’ personal journeys, exposing triumphs and tribulations by showing how the sausage is made. Christine Walinski’s small works embrace unintentional outcomes, finding humor in mismatched colors, shapes, and lines reminiscent of her younger self. Sabrina Small presents a collection of abandoned drawings that hold elements of potential, preserved in the hope of future revival….
Behind Every Great Mariska Hargitay Is a Great Kurt Fitzpatrick
A quirky comedic storytelling show about Kurt’s adventures of working as a background actor in New York on and off for ten years. He’s been on Law & Order SVU, Boardwalk Empire, The Good Wife, and others, but never said a damn word in any of them. Now he finally speaks and he has a lot to say!
Bicycle Shorts Film Festival
A festival within a festival, featuring two 90-min blocks of short films starting 7 pm Fri and 2 pm Sat and a 24-hour filmmaking contest starting 7 pm Sat. Write, act, shoot, and edit or just sit back and watch the results. Who will win a Golden Bicycle? Visit yellowbicycle.com/bsff for details.
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