FringeArts

Our hearts are broken. 

On Monday, we learned that our community lost Dito van Reigersberg, co-founder of Pig Iron Theatre Company, beloved performer, brilliant risk-taker, and friend. 

Dito performed in nearly every one of the 29 Philadelphia Fringe Festivals, starting with Pig Iron’s “Cafeteria” in the first festival in 1997. For several years, the arc of the Fringe Festival was a familiar one: opening night, a week or two of 20-30 shows each day, a steady build which would peak “precisely” at the moment that Martha Graham Cracker - Dito’s Amazonian drag alter ego - strode onstage at the Late Night Cabaret. 

The effect of watching Martha perform those shows was a duo of feelings that don’t logically go together: total awe, and radical belonging. “I can’t believe what I’m seeing. These are my people.”

Dito’s ability to hold both things at once - on the one hand: virtuosity, experimentalism, danger; on the other: welcoming, pleasure, humor, joy - made him an exemplar of the kind of outrageous, anarchic, beautifully-human approach to performance that has come to define how we do it in Philly.  

It is unspeakably sad that Dito is gone. It is a fu***ng miracle that we all got to share this planet with him.

Through aerials, Cyr wheel, partner acrobatics, physical theater, and personal memories, the show travels the emotional terrain of endings — of death, of decay, of breakdown and overwhelm and plummeting back to earth.

Don’t miss “we practiced dropping each other until it looked like love” THIS Tuesday and Wednesday at 7:30PM 🎟️ in the link in bio

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We practiced taking up space. We practiced making ourselves smaller. We practiced making tragedy from a paper airplane, and connection over a cup of coffee. We practiced for a world we wanted to live in, and for the world we knew we’d have to fight.

“we practiced dropping each other until it looked like love” is the final graduation show for

Join us May 26-27 at FringeArts
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Joining us once again as a Philly Fringe Festival Hub is Studio 34 🎉

This hub is booked and busy! Throughout the year, Studio 34 hosts art, comedy, dance, music, poetry and theatre in our gallery, lounge, and studio spaces, as well as healing services, 30 weekly yoga classes AND workshops!

Located in West Philly named for the trolley that stops right out front 🚋

🚨 No longer accepting applications 🚨
Want to still register your show?
Head to our link in bio 🔗
🗓 Registration closes Friday, June 5!

Image 1 and 3: Free Float, Free Fleet (2024)
Image 2: “Clown Slam” (2024) and “Total Modeling” (2025)

Looking for your next opportunity in production? ⁠🎬
Join us at the Production Job Fair here at FringeArts: Tuesday, May 19, starting at 4PM
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🤝 Connect with local organizations and explore production opportunities across the Philly arts community and beyond!

🎭 Calling all artists, technicians, stage managers, designers, and collaborators — whether you’re building a team or hoping to join one, this event is for you.
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🌟 A space created to bring together creative talent and employers from across the city 🌟⁠
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RSVP through our linkinbio!⁠
For more info head to FringeArts.com⁠
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✨ If you’re a circus artist with a show and you want to be a part of the Fringe Festival, then it’s your time to apply to be a part of the Circus Campus hub!!

Located in West Mt. Airy, Circus Campus is a come for some of the most unique talent in the Philadelphia area.

🚨 Applications close Thursday, May 7
🔗 For more info, visit our link in bio.

Image 1 - Red Flags, Watermelon Bathtub (2023 Fringe Festival)
Image 2 - LAYOVERS, Air Temple Arts (2024 Fringe Festival)

Evalina Wally Carbonell is back at Fringe 🔥 From Scratch Nights to producing in Philly Fringe (and even Edinburgh), Evalina Wally Carbonell returns with Braiding Stihia at Scratch Night Open Rehearsal.

Joining her on stage: her children, dance artist Brandi Ou, and performance artist Solana Hoffman-Carter, speaking the choreographer’s poetry.

“No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.” — Carl Jung

🎟 Tickets are Pay What You Can — all ticket go directly to the artists
🔗 Visit FringeArts.com for more info.