fringe festival

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When you live in a community like Asheville, it’s easy to get spoiled by all of the amazing cultural and art events happening every weekend, but the Fringe Festival is one to look forward to every year. FringeFest has been weirding out Asheville (it’s a good weird, don’t worry) since it’s inception in 2003, when ACDT’s Artistic and Co-Directors, Susan and Giles Collard founded the festival in hopes of drawing innovative performers and artists with shared or intersecting aesthetics.

Fringe Festival Official Website

2009 Fringe Fest:

Fringe!
Writer: Spyce
Director: Bryan Octavius
Performers: Spyce, Lea Fox, Sonia Nicholas
Music: Irene Cara

“The Spirit Wheel ~ Awakening “
performed by Wicked Geisha

“For Oshun” from the larger work, “Carolina Blendian: A Masquerade Parade”
MIXED BLOOD WOMAN
Choreographed and performed by Maura Michelle Garcia

“Contact”
presented by NO Dance Theatre
Musician: Potpie
Dancer: Gabrielle Pickard

“For Eleggua” from the larger work, “Carolina Blendian: A Masquerade Parade”
MIXED BLOOD WOMAN
Choreographed and performed by Maura Michelle Garcia
This piece features the Santeria trickster character, Eleggua

Sssentuality Today
Writer & Performer: Spyce
Beautiful Helpers: Lea Fox, Sonia Nicholas

“Dis / Connect”
Visual Artist: Dustin Spagnola
Choreographed and directed by: Kathy Meyers
Performers : Erin Braasch, Jenni Cockrell, Julie Becton-Gillum, Kathy Meyers, and Erik Moellering,
Duet: created in collaboration with Erik Moellering
E-mail text: John Meyers Jr with adaptation of message written by: John Crutchfield
Music: String Orchestra tribute to Radiohead