Introducing the work of a multi-disciplinary field of Fringearts in Philadelphia and beyond which stems from the origin of the Fringe platform from the International Edinburgh Festival.
“The Drunk Lion” by Chris Davis
One man could take on multiple roles, and direct our attention to the entertaining quality of a space, and audiences are captivated about this imagination. An imagination shared, directed by high energy story telling. The fringe genre creates a space for artists to create pieces that conceptually evoke the process, the gesture, and presence of the artist with an audience.
In this section, genre presents Fringe Performances, Fringe artists, and the fringe festival. In its own category of multi-disciplinary art forms. How did this come to be? The fringe performance is a creative exploration for independent theater artists who produce their own shows. They are motivated, and driven to transcend the boundaries of dance, theater, and performance art.
The Fringe category shares a history of audiences looking for new experimental performances. Orchestrated by many different genres that draws performance art to a new world stage. This theme brings up the bridging theme of dance and drama. But also the role of comedians and boundaries for very specific time-based medium.
The actor/ playwright/ comedian/performer producing sketches on their own for the public art genre precisely. They are part of a long history of developing performance art. The traditions of the artists presence and the process with an audience, here is a festival of art with a broad perspective for new, and emerging artists and comedians in site-specific installations.
Visiting the Fringe Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland literally doubles the population of this metropolis for the duration of the festival. The gusto of comedians and self-promoting theaters on the streets below ancient castles on the landscape reimagines the old city. On the fringe of the Edinburgh International Festival that curates a national theater, orchestra, and opera from around the world. It was purposefully designed to compare to large budget projects, which were negotiated to showcase art of the world in one place. This festival of art recognized as the biggest art festival in the world, culminates to an international degree of public art on the everyday temporal architecture of this global event. This profile, an Occams razor by definition is a cutting-edge for maximum capacity audience for anywhere from a whole in the wall pub to multiple stages and time slots for promoters to bring crowds into the space. That the framework for breaking audiences into the genre of a modern theater style.
The signature style which the critics of Philadelphia have been talking about are these solo performances. It is the ability to transform into character. The storyteller here is a vehicle to enthuse, and dance around the subject of our imagination. If the audience has taken anything away from these performances it is that definition of storytelling, that is, the ability to open our minds.
Beginning to share his experiences from performing at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival because in his recent work called, The Producer, he takes us through his beginning of being criticized, labeled; amateur, or how demoralizing curated festivals leave out the individual artists who are backed by little to nothing. Opposed to large organizations that receive major gifts, multi-year grants, and so forth. Imagine the breadth of talented artists that flood into Edinburgh Scotland. Creating a huge social movement that competes with the larger scale productions to throw the system off kilter, I can only imagine.
It was “Apocalypse Now One-Man Show”, that started the whirl wind. You have all seen the movie, and countless movies created after the Korean War, and the history of that period in time when media broadcasting changed the perspective of so many people. Culminating in the final action, Marlyn Brando eating a papaya
One-Man Nutcracker by Chris Davis
Johnny Depp Retrospective by Jenna Kuerzi
Die-Cast
An immersive theater group that brings new media to social places.
GINTRY: A PLAY WITH DRINKS, by David Stratton White.
XoXo MoonGirl by Almanac Circus
Nicole Burgio solo show
A portrait of a dysfunctional family was juxtaposed by a clown without any feelings, smiling at the nonsense of spilt milk. It is Coming from a broken home, and dreaming of flying to the moon. She was that little girl that used to dream about wearing a red dress and flying to the moon.
Clowning is playful and introduces audiences to the nature of this character. Dressed in all white, and balancing a glass of milk on the edge of the table. Burgio uses aerial silks to suspend herself above the scene, dreaming of landing on the moon, and escaping her reality.
