It’s Fringe Festival time in Sydney and Melbourne and there’s an abundance of work on offer in the two programs, plus a few shows that are touring to other destinations.
Opening 22 September at Melbourne Fringe Festival is double bill “Awkward Con-nections”, featuring It’s Getting Awkward by Sarah Chaffey, Scott Elstermann and Ezgi Gungor and How to Con-nect, by Rikki Bremner. Fresh from winning the Dance and Physical Theatre award at the 2016 Perth Fringe World Festival, “Awkward Con-nections” questions how and why we relate to those around us. It plays Melbourne Fringe Festival 22-24 September.
Also opening 22 September at the Sydney Fringe Festival, before heading to Melbourne, is double bill “Brainchild”, featuring Low Expectations by Samantha Crameri-Miller and Principle of Causation by Cameron Lansdown-Goodman and dancers. Low Expectations is a dance governed by stories; itty bitty anecdotes crammed with an excessive amount of alliteration, while Principle of Causation asks how our choices affect others. Brainchild plays the Sydney Fringe Festival 22-25 September and the Melbourne Fringe Festival 29 September – 1 October.
Direct from New Zealand Fringe, Eliza Sanders presents two solo dance theatre works, Pedal and Castles, at the Sydney Fringe Festival 2024 September, Melbourne Fringe Festival 27 September to 1 October, and in Canberra 6-8 October. Together, Pedal and Castles chart two parts of an archetypal journey of discovery - in a completely atypical way. The two works form a hive of strangely interconnected questions and musings, from the silly to the sublime.
Emptying the Bucket is a work by Melbourne and Berlin based choreographer and performance artist Nebahat Erpolat. Playing the Melbourne Fringe Festival 28 September to 1 October, Emptying the Bucket invites audiences to look back into the world of human desire and love.
These are just a handful of the dance works on offer. Get more info about these shows and more at the Sydney Fringe Festival website and the Melbourne Fringe Festival website.