deprogram
deprogram is a dance theater quartet directed by Megan Mazarick that deconstructs gender, science fiction, and elements of video games. Working within a science fiction narrative, the work uses commercials, improvisation, and fantasy embodiment as source material to create a Bro duet, tampon vogue party, and contact-based lift sequences. Both improvised and devised text inform the performance as bodies glitch, freeze, prance, and morph in response. Created in collaboration with…
Changing My Major to Joan
What does it mean to see community in someone who has been used to represent everything you are not? Boris Dansberry explores the life and legacy of Joan of Arc with special focus on theatrical portrayals from playwrights into the early 20th century. Using humor, angst, masks, beans, unmasking, Frederich Shiller, and the trials and tribulations of the queer experience the audience will take attention and maybe even take notes…
Dear Donald/Dear Hillary (Their Secret Correspondence)
Dear Donald/Dear Hillary (Their Secret Correspondence) by Elaine Liner The play takes liberties, for laughs, with the biographies of the famous political rivals. What if they were assigned to be pen pals as second-graders? In their heretofore undiscovered personal letters spanning half a century, right up to November 2020, we see their awkward friendship wax and wane in letters that borrow liberally (not conservatively) from Trump and Clinton’s actual public…
Dance Voices
Dancefusion, Philadelphia’s dynamic modern dance repertory company will present DANCE VOICES in collaboration with Movement Migration from Charlotte NC and New York City. Dancefusion will feature the revival of the Lament from Gloria (1967) by Legendary choreographer, Mary Anthony. The Lament for 5 women is an excerpt from Mary Anthony’s larger work Gloria, set to the haunting vocal music of Francis Poulenc. The program will also feature two inspiring New…
Couch Potatoes
Couch Potatoes is an original devised show utilizing circus and interdisciplinary theater to examine the relationships and family structures that occur within a shared living space as represented by its most common feature: the couch. In 2020 we all experienced drastic changes to our living spaces; whether it be moving home, moving out of the city, inviting family to stay on your couch or even just being stuck at home on…
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.
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