A land where fairy tales take a wicked turn, and the innocent and optimistic stories of happily-ever-after wrought into the harsh realities of life.
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Category: Fringe Festival
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RHIZOMAS (Ryuzo Fukuhara): 2016 Fringe review 86
Improvisation is an enticing, yet dangerous, approach to performing.
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Fringe in Sketch: JULIUS CAESAR. SPARED PARTS
Italian director Romeo Castellucci re-envisions his groundbreaking 1997 production Giulio Cesare as a series of “fragments” rearranged and positioned against each other
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WITH FLINT AND STEEL (duende): 2016 Fringe review 85
WITH FLINT AND STEEL, this year’s Fringe offering by experimental music and dance group duende, consists of seven separate pieces, each by a different choreographer.
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FORE-IGN/ FORE-OUT (Carbonell, Chisena, Gavino, McKenzie): 2016 Fringe review 84
Excerpted by kind permission from thINKingDANCE. In FORE-IGN/ FORE-OUT, four choreographers explore states of liminality—of how to be between things. In Matriz, Evalina Carbonell uses a…
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JULIUS CAESAR. SPARED PARTS (Romeo Castellucci / Socíetas Raffaello Sanzio): 2016 Fringe review 83
We were fortunate. Apparently, the horse does not always shit, but in our case his entrance precipitated a great outpouring of feces.
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Fringe in Sketch: THE ELEMENTARY SPACETIME SHOW
A young girl attempts suicide and wakes up trapped in a cosmic vaudevillian game show that she must win in order to enter the void of death.
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WALK TO TOPAZ (Brendon Tetsuo): 2016 Fringe review 82
An autobiographical solo dance work tracing how a family history in a Japanese Internment Camp has affected succeeding generations.
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SCARLETT LETTERS (Ross & Diggs): 2016 Fringe review 81
Playwright Patrick Ross, who gives us a history of sexism, quotes and references to literature and mythology, and plenty of Hawthorne in a smartly woven one-woman show
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THE ONE, THE OTHER ONE, & THE MANY (The Naked Stark): 2016 Fringe review 80
THE ONE, THE OTHER ONE, & THE MANY reflected an everlasting struggle, a universal dynamic to shift parochial perspectives through time and evolving relationships
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PORTAL (Leah Stein Dance Company): 2016 Fringe review 79
the rich layering of performance capacity matched the layers of movement space that Leah Stein’s PORTAL attended to
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Fringe in Sketch: THE EUMENIDES
THE EUMENIDES was performed amid extraordinary ancient artifacts in the Penn Museum.
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HABITUS (Ann Hamilton): 2016 Fringe review 78
Colossal curtains beautifully billowing with the breeze, are hanging around, literally, throughout the vast Municipal Pier 9 facility
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The Bastard of KING JOHN: Carlo Campbell on Revolution Shakespeare Fringe offering
Rev Shakes’ annual mainstage productions begin the final weekend of the Fringe and showcase a sensibility at home in the festival
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Fringe in Sketch: SILKEN VEILS
In the first drawing you see a little bit of projection worked into the background. The second is an example of the striking shadows that were used to capture the memory of her mother and father. And the third illustration is the emotion and love which flows from Rumi’s poetry.
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OMELETTO (Ombelico Mask Ensemble): 2016 Fringe review 77
It’s “like Hamlet”, with all the key plot points, “only scrambled” in a light-hearted Commedia dell’arte of masks, jokes, music, and puppets.
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BALANCE (JheeSha Productions): 2016 Fringe review 76
The Kathak performance weaved together photography and dance, narrative and abstraction, the traditional and the contemporary in an exploration of life’s many off-kilter moments.
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THE ELEMENTARY SPACETIME SHOW (César Alvarez): 2016 Fringe review 68.2
Wild, unabashed, meta upon meta, with a depth of emotional honesty that brings one dangerously close to heartbreak
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FOUR MINUTE BOOTH (Gatto + Hirano): 2016 Fringe review 75
Four minutes of prolonged eye contact can incur a boost of oxytocin, a chemical that decreases stress and instills positive emotions.
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KAPPAROT (Daughters of Disruption): 2016 Fringe review 74
In the Art Church, a house of a theater with carpeted stairs and a open room set with rows of chairs, performer collaborators Chana Rothman…
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