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Chloe Marie Newton, a black female dancer wearing a gauzy dark blue tank and Helen Hale, a white female dancer with a long brown ponytail wearing shimmery silver, sit on a light grey marley floor, reclined on one hip with knees gently stacked and one arm intertwined with the other, reaching upwards. They have their backs to us and around and beyond them, we can see pale, cool-toned, sheer fabric. Through and beyond the fabric, we see a row of shadowy-figured audience members, seated and wearing headphones that emit a blue glow.
Photo: Johanna Austin
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Indelible Release: a Moonscape

E. Wallis Cain Carbonell
  • “Inside a womb of memories where the water body floats…”
Image Description: Five young would-be campers, mostly smiling, with goofy patterned T-shirts standing in socks on a wood floor displaying supportive thumbs up. One dancer is seated, their face framed by a round lavender and white floaty.
Photo: Noel Price-Bracey
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A Letter from Fringe Summer Dance Camp

Noel Price-Bracey

Dreaming counselors were modern dancers and me a dance writer.

Image Description: Four figures, shrouded in gauzy silver, turquoise, crimson and beige sheer fabric atop their salakots (Asian-Strykers conical hats), crouch forward gesturing to the Earth. Surrounded by blackness, they stand, casting shadow on a light grey marley floor. There is a long piece of white plastic sheeting strewn across the floor in the foreground.
‘Find your way back… follow my hum.’
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Sarswela: Recovering from Twisted Tongues

E. Wallis Cain Carbonell

‘Find your way back… follow my hum.’

Image description: an image of a dancer in fifth position on pointe, wearing a strapless leotard and skirt is copied three times over a black background with large bold lettering that reads “I don’t dance”.
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When The Inner Critic Meets A Little Delusion

Caitlin Green

Kirner exposes the quintessential stage dancers’ inner monologue.

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A dancer wears a feathered head piece and bright red garment with yellow, orange, black, and white strips of fabrics that dangle as they dance in front of a black backdrop.
Photo: Native Nations Dance Theater
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Dancing Afroindigeneity

Caitlin Green
  • From Africa to Turtle Island and the Caribbean…
A group of twelve people pose in front of a white wall. on the floor level, four group members either sit, lie, kneel or lunge on the ground. standing members lean on one another on either side of the crew, and people in the center sit or lay on a bench together.
Photo Credit: Jeffrey Evans
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Cannonball Bets on Philadelphia’s Indie Artists

Caitlin Green
  • “Cannonball is no one person’s vision, but the collective fever dream of us all.”
Three dancers, including Nalini Prakash and Vijay Palaparty all face each other in a circle, dressed in vibrant greens, reds and yellows while Vijay wears mostly all white. They are in a dance studio with warm wooden floors. They are all smiling at each other, reaching arms around while balancing on one foot.
Photo: Natasha Cohen-Carroll
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Who am I?

Zoe Farnsworth
  • Nalini Prakash and Vijay Palaparty discuss identity, tradition, and the evolving 20-year journey of Godavari.
A show poster with mostly purple tones and a purple banner below that reads RWP Fringe Knowledge 2025 Season TIMESTAMP by Karen Cecilia and Emilee Lord Dovecot Studios. Above is an image of two middle aged women in black tank tops, the one on the left with short curly red hair looking straight into the camera, the one on the right with long curly hairs looking up into the distance, Behind them is mirrored a reflected image of this same pose.
Photo: Emilee Lord
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Fringe Didn’t Kill Me!

Emilee Lord
  • A Guide to Not Losing Your Shit
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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.
Photo: Colleen Sirisky
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‘Time of Truth’–A Coming of Age Dance

Rhonda Moore
  • The entire cast jockeys between individual and collective truths.
Photo: Sam Tower
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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: Julieta Cervantes
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We Are Moses

Kalila Kingsford Smith
  • Reggie Wilson/Fist and Heel Performance Group's Moses(es) brings to life the nature of leadership within a community.

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