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The
Philadelphia Fringe Festival is proud to announce it's
artistic line-up for this year's event, September 1-16th,
2000.
With roughly
220 artists participating in three designated categories,
this festival is the largest to date.
The three
categories are as follows:
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BYOV
(Bring Your Own Venue) - Unfiltered work, self-produced
for presentation at the festival.
- Curated - Work invited as a co-production
with the Philadelphia Fringe.
- Adjudicated - Work chosen by Philadelphia
Fringe Festival panels from submissions.
Components
of the Philadelphia Fringe Festival include:
Music
Performers experiment with all genres of music,
often mixing and matching for interesting results. This year
there are approximately 44 musical performances to enjoy.
Dance
Always a huge part of the Fringe, we are presenting
several long runs this year to allow for audience enthusiasm.
This year there are approximately 28 dance performances to
enjoy.
Theater
Anything from site specific performance and
new plays to new twists on an old theme. Theater is a cornerstone
of the festival. This year there are approximately 69 theater
performances to enjoy.
Poetry
and Spoken Word
This means different things to different people.
We have always had an impressive array of spoken word artists
who manage to make poetry and spoken word a lively art. This
year there are approximately 8 spoken word performances to
enjoy.
Film
Something new for us. This year we will present
two programs of short experimental film and video. This year
there are 2 film programs to enjoy.
Visual
Painting, sculpture and site specific installation
in and around Old City. This year there are approximately
24 visual artworks to enjoy.
Interdisciplinary
Though some of the work naturally falls into
one discipline or another, just as much alludes easy classification.
By employing elements from different mediums, a hybrid is
created. This nearly limitless practice, though not entirely
new, is constantly being honed, reinvented and brought to
new levels of sophistication by visual and performing artists
on the fringe. This year there are approximately 46 interdisciplinary
works to enjoy.
Some
Highlights
The size
of the festival obviously prohibits a detailed discussion
of every work in these pages, however here are a few highlights
to illustrate the quality of Fringe offerings this year.
Dissentia
Curatorial Services
The Button Project
This year the Fringe has spectacular buttons!
The work of ten artists will be displayed on fringe buttons
that will be available to festival goers and artists for $5
a piece. They can be used for discounts at participating restaurants
and businesses during the festival. Collect 'em and trade
'em.
Jorma
Elo and the Pennsylvania Ballet
A highlight that will kick off the first 3
days (Labor Day Weekend) of the festival is a piece by the
dancer/choreographer on the forefront of contemporary dance,
Jorma Elo and The Netherlands Dance Theater. The Fringe has
commissioned the Pennsylvania Ballet to realize this brilliant
marriage of modern and classical dance.
Mark
Lord
Across
Mark Lord has out done himself with Across,
a site specific oddessy within the landscape of Old City.
Audience members will follow a modern day Saint Augustine
as his "story" is revealed through 30 site specific vignettes.
The action takes place on rooftops, through windows and in
storm gutters. This variety of interesting architectural boundaries
employed by Lord heightens the effect of the episodes, sparking
a new sense of possibilities for the participants. Lord is
a local favorite.
WHYY
and New City Press
Threads
New City Press, a non-profit organization associated
with Temple University and WHYY will present an Internet literary
participatory project at the public radio and television's
website. Participants will be asked to contribute to an on-going
thread of questions and thoughts linked directly and indirectly
to events during the festival. WHYY will also be producing
Fringe Festival "spotlights" for radio and television broadcast.
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