Modern circus is more than red-nosed clowns with painted faces, buffoonery, and freak acts. At Rochester Fringe’s Circus in the City on Friday evening, circus was a profound social message, an interior experience, a whimsical journey, and even breezy fun.
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The "Young Man Dressed as a Gorilla Dressed as an Old Man..." was an absorbing and amusing sociological experiment that proved that, in the end, we are more kind than cruel. Read more about the "most Dada entry" at this year's Rochester Fringe.
Sophocles’s drama “Antigone” is one of the great tragedies, time-tested, reworked, and revisited numerous times is its 2,500-year history. This edition, by Needs More Work Productions, offers the audience a chance to change the fate of Antigone, even if the actress playing her doesn’t want it. It repeats through Sunday at Rochester Fringe.
BIODANCE gave a 20th anniversary performance at the ESL Rochester Fringe Festival that made human connection visible, visceral, and viable. Read more about the performance, which repeats next Thursday, September 24.
Day one of the Rochester Fringe Festival kicked off yesterday, Tuesday, September 15, with showings of some of the main fringe-curated attractions. Those shows proved both irreverent and heartwarming.