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Philadelphia Fringe Festival

Two Black performers stand side-by-side, wearing pedestrian clothing – lacy, patterned white tops layered over shades of beige and brown. Their gaze extends out to their right, converging on an unknown entity in the distance. Surrounding them, a park with green grass and trees foregrounding urbanity.
Photo: Shoshana Isaacs
  • Reviews

Secrets shared, Innocence lost

Ankita

How do you perform secrecy?

A black graphic with large blue lettering that spells NFRW/T across the center. The word overlays a yellow triangle with images of a bird, cat, and serpent with human figures layerd over them are placed at each corner of the triangle. The subtext reads “Neferu”, “Neferet”, “adj. Egyptian”, “good beautiful perfect”, “Ankole, a BIPOC, queer proud circus”, as well as subtext giving details of the production.
Image Courtesy of the Artist
  • Reviews

Good, Beautiful, Perfect, Black, Indigenous, Queer

Caitlin Green

A sacred message well-received

A mischievous joy permeates the image, as one performer with blunt black bangs seems to cheer with an open-mouthed grin, shoulders reaching up to her ears. To her left, another stands gazing at her, with a grin just as wide, but a tad more sinister, an open jazz hand covering her face. Behind the first is a taller person with a yellow bow, tucking something into the first performer’s black-and-white luxury jumpsuit.
Photo: Lance Reha
  • Reviews

From the Studio: “MAYDAY” with Grace Tong

Ankita

“MAYDAY” resists assimilation through self-producing.

Two dancers sit on a red floor in front of a black backdrop with their hair braided into updos with cornrows. They are topless with their bare backs facing the camera, wearing black leggings. They mirror each other, leaning toward one another with one hand outstretched, resting on the other’s shoulder. The other arm arcs overhead, also in the direction of the other.
Photo: Wright Eye Visuals
  • Reviews

Seeking Sisterhood Amidst Unsafe Systems

Caitlin Green

The dynamic and expressive dance carries a constant groove amidst the rhythmic shifts.

Two bodies pressed almost into each other, fingertips grazing another’s hand. In front, a dancer in a modest white shirt and long skirt glances behind her through tousled hair. A second dancer dressed in black sackcloth hovers behind her, as if readying to whisper something in her ear.
Photo: Anna Siegel
  • Reviews

Circling with the Dybbuk

Madeline Shuron

Beloved Yiddish play is translated through dance. Madeline Shuron reviews Nell Adkins & Helen Sher’s Within the Fall.

A black and white still of a scene from Daniel Stein’s Inclined to Agree, 1986. A muscular Stein lunges his bent left leg upstage, bending his torso to his left, wearing dress slacks , movement shoes and shirtless. He is stepping on two bunches of taught chords that run diagonally from his right ankle up to the rafters where more chords of varying lengths hang with weights attached . An empty door frame hangs from chords just upstage of Stein, it tilts towards him on a steep incline.
Photo: Daniel Stein
  • Book Reviews

B.F.F. (Before the Fringe Festival: A Moving History)

Walter Bilderback

A reflection on the 2023 memoir of Michael Pedretti of Movement Theatre International, pre-Philadelphia Fringe Festival.

Two women standing in a spotlit space, each with a yellow top and white pants with the taller, Zoe Rabinowitz, gazing aside, embraces and holds Mary McGrath to her chest, one arm around her blond hair, the other around her back, her face buried in Rabinowitz’s chest.
Photo: Sara Radin
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Two tD Writers + Two Fringe Shows — A Reflective Conversation

Jonathan Stein

Dance and theater from artists/daughters address their mothers’ dementia.

three people wearing brightly colored clothing and blue lipstick hover closely together, looking off into the distance. they are leaning over miniature figurines of a desktop computer, a black and white checkered floor, a globe and other tiny toy objects.
Photo: Irina Varina
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Celebrating Nineties Nostalgia in ‘Future Jam ‘94’

Caitlin Green

At a séance sleepover party, they summon the spirit of Google from the future.

A white gay man lies on the floor, almost fully naked. A Black gay man dressed in a tropical dress with a hair scarf, sunglasses, and a floral bag stands next to them, extending their arms as if asking, “What’s the matter?”
Photo: Paule Turner and Dane Eissler
  • Reviews

My Pussy Hurts Too

Anito Gavino

Crumpled tissues on the floor, half-emptied soda bottles, and a raggedy wig tossed on the floor tell stories.

Meghan Frederick in a kneeling, twisted pose, wearing a tank top covered in yin-yang symbols and a skirt patterned with the American flag, performing on a stage with abstract drawings taped to the wall behind.
Photo: James Izlar
  • Reviews

Embodying a Turbulent World

Ziying Cui

A rejection of traditional meaning-making in Western theater and improvisation.

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