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by John Munger • July 7, 2008 • The Fringe Festival offers more dance in eleven days than any part of the dance community offers at any other time of the year.
Lots of people don’t think of The Fringe as a dance hothouse. Hey, smell the coffee. It’s all about theater and then, oh yes, there are those dance shows.
by John Munger • July 4, 2008 • Why am I delighted to find myself steadily getting more and more crazed?
With each passing day the magnitude of The Fringe looms larger and closer. We even have concrete events in our faces. This Monday, July 7, the first of two Fringe-For-All showcases happens at The Ritz. Migawd. It’s happening already. The Fringe Festival is my favorite time of year, crazy as it may be.
by John Munger • July 5, 2008 • Some shows legitimately list “dance” as one of their genres on The Fringe website because they include genuine dancing even though their primary focus may be elsewhere. Good examples include many “musical theater” productions. Still others list “dance” because dance is utterly and primarily what the show is about. A third, and growing, category would be shows that cross-mix disciplines through dance, physical theater, video and Yaweh only knows what else. Continue Reading