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Photo: Sam Tower

New Maps from the Fringe Festival

Ellen Chenoweth

What new connections and directions emerge this year from the Fringe Festival's explosion of artistic expression?

Photo: Anja Hitzenberger

Letter to the Whirl: The Crowd Circles Round

Kirsten Kaschock

Philadelphia dance-goers describe their evening at Zambrano's "Soul Project" in alternately poetic and analytical prose.

Photo: Anja Hitzenberger

The Spirits in David Zambrano’s Soul Project

Jonathan Stein

Zambrano’s aim was to present the dancer as “being continuously alive.”

Photo: Ian Douglas

Greg the Creature, the Human

Nicole Bindler

Greg performs 2,000 individual, unrepeated movements for one hour. But what is one movement anyway?

Photo: Maxwell Van Hook

Dead Bodies All Around Me: Unarmed

Gregory King

Before he was a fallen black man, he was an unarmed black man. Now he lies as a shell of his former self.

Photo: Knut Bry

Write Up to the Edge: Fringe at The Border

Kirsten Kaschock

A Fringe audience questions binaries--how borders circumscribe and overlap and sometimes carve out small, human spaces.

Photo: Knut Bry

From Here to There and in Between

Whitney Weinstein

Their deeply embedded heritage bound them together as they stepped towards an unforeseen fate.

Photo: Kate Raines

Railroaded by Underground Railroad Game

Gregory King

Underground Railroad Game gets a B for attempting to dissect the construct of race and shed light on a tainted history.

Photo: Samantha Orr

The Traumas of Careful Injuries

Whitney Weinstein

I found we were all able to generate meaning from the performance, yet each interpretation was vastly different.

Photo: Craig T. Matthew

Simplicity in Space – Repeat!

Gregory King

Sometimes repetition causes predictability and loss of interest...