Authentic Victorian style flea circus. Trained Fleas perform spectacular circus stunts as seen before (and on top of) the Crowned Heads of Europe. “Too perversely fascinating to miss” Digitalcity.com

This lively and interactive workshop is an opportunity to experience a unique and innovative model for meaningful community building through creative expression that is safe, spontaneous and inclusive of all ages, experiences and backgrounds. Guided by a combination of highly … Continue reading →

Public performance of SCA Director’s Lab: Everybody Dances, Every Story Shines

DIRECTOR’S CHOICE AWARD – BLACK MARIA FILM FESTIVAL. Chronicle utilizes creative techniques to produce a visual journal that addresses the fragmentation of experience and memory.

Calling all Couch Potatoes, get ready for Channel Surfing, TIVO, and Cable like never before! Brave our Boobtube. WARNING: Just because you have a remote doesn’t mean you’re IN CONTROL.

Jumbo Special presents to you “personality rock”, a funky fusion that’s anywhere from country to prog rock.

X-Games meets Cirque – After 17 years perfecting control, Sven unleashes a primal force. Juggling, balancing, flying; straining body, mind and spirit… transcending the limits of athletic artistic expression.)

Religious symbolism and its repressive moralistic convention ply with the sensuality of the female form and the need to experience instinctual pleasure in this series of life-cast sculptures.  

A grossly delirious riff on contemporary America, complete with inappropriate use of television, padded people, Jessica Simpson, oddly moving music, and Apocalypse Now

Based on exercises from a new book entitled “The Warrior Artists Handbook”, we will explore embodied creative process in the tradition of contemplative arts.  Barbara Dilley created the Dance Program at Naropa University and has been integrating her Shambhala Buddhist … Continue reading →

Hot dance works from the California based, ballet-belly-jazz-modern-ballroom fusion dance group. Sultry gypsies, country love muffins and star crossed lovers will all be there!

In this workshop we will subvert our habitual movements through the mapping of texts. We will intentionally reclaim physical/public/private space. We will unpack language and liberate its three-dimensions. Wear comfortable clothes. Be willing to cut apart precious works. Come ready … Continue reading →

Public performance of Tracking Bunnies: Mapping the GEOCHOREGRAPHMETRIC Text

BEST FILM & BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY – STARS FIRST LOOK FILM FESTIVAL. Two friends experience the struggle of the old age in modern day China through sound and vision.

An average ride up thirty floors…

An intergenerational theatrical interpretation of children’s stories, and Real life through dance, music, multi-media, and voice. Stories cover morals of love, friendship, hardship, grief, etc

This laboratory is for those yearning to express wildly and freely their truth and power in a supportive context that evokes transformation of Self and others. We will explore voice-movement journeys and processes designed to enhance the natural voice as … Continue reading →

A digital portrait captures the rhythm, volume, harmony, melody, and mood of Mozart’s Requiem (Mass for the Dead).

GRAND PRIZE – CRESTED BUTTE REELFEST. The shedding of seasons, the passion to complete a soul and time burning like a candle at both ends.

A young, over-caffeinated Republican sets off fireworks in his pants and pierces melons between his legs with a garden hoe – and then it’s time to take the stage!

David Rosdeitcher aka Zipcodeman will be presenting an exhibition of a new kind of improvisational storytelling show. These stories, based on traveling throughout the world for many years, will be inspired by questions from the audience. Storytelling Teens and Adults … Continue reading →

Deb and Judy is femme fatales, misguided entrepreneurs, loose women, the existentially condemned, and ladies who are just like your mother. Sketch Comedy by girls with twisted minds.

Magicians don’t need gaudy boxes and mirrors! Floating a women from the audience every show, Stickley has stripped the boxes and mirrors to create illusions that are mystifying and hilarious.

Helllooo Ladiesss!!! Rusty “The Chick Magnet” Rutherford brings you this Insanely funny “one-manly-man show” (Albuquerque Alibi) driven by audience participation, crazy props, lightning fast Improv, and adult diapers.

While in Boulder, Equilibrium Theatre Company will work with Innovations, a division of Imagine!, on an interactive workshop. We will engage the participants in various theater and movement activities. These will consist of games and explorations taken from the work … Continue reading →

Human Oddities! Freaks of Nature! See Bear Feet, Bearded Songbird, Artist No Arms, and more! Step right up and see this phenomenal mixed-ability company from VSA arts of New Mexico.

A clown is very funny. But, learning how to clown around is a very serious matter. In this workshop we will take a look and the psychophysical attributes of a clown and what makes it tick (and talk). Emphasis will … Continue reading →

An interactive solo musical comedy about one woman’s hilarious journey from the painful world of obsession to true self-love, incorporating incredible physical comedy, transformative ritual, god and a spaceship.

Public performance of Creation from the Core

The Mask Messenger is an engaging mix of monologue, physical comedy and theatre, a tour de force solo performance that explores the artistic, cultural and psychological use of masks throughout history.

A three-ring high-flying burlesque circus combined with yesteryear’s Vaudeville style entertainment. Passion and Perfume Is an eclectic celebration of song and dance.

Forest Rose Productions presents a bit of imaginative whimsey with… Whimsical Doodle’s Whimsical Worlds. Each intricate, stylized “doodle” depicts a smidgeon of a greater adventure, set in quirky new worlds.

Two Afternoons of Open stage for musicians, comedians, performance artists, poets and poetesses… SIGN UP with Asia Wong to hold a slot – Call 303-449-9447 or email wongasia@hotmail.com all ages

See the work of the community. An Open Gallery with a sign up for Visual Artists, encouraging the freedom of expression and accessibility of artwork. Fringe Main Gallery, Hapa, Exhibitrek, Little Horse, The Tea Spot Visual Art All ages

Witness interlocking rhythms and flurries of dynamic percussion performed on exotic bronze instruments. Shimmering compositions are intricately woven with story-telling dance for an effect that is both startling and compelling.

Two humorous, poignant, fast-paced, multi-character comedy dramas of love and letting go. Award-winning Gemma Wilcox shapeshifts from male to female, rodent to feline. “Superb…moving…a gem” Austin American-Statesman

In this workshop we will explore the landscape of the imagination and how it acts as a tool for freeing the unconscious story. Working with our own personal expression we will cross the line into psychic territory exploring lucid dream … Continue reading →

Public performance of SCA Director’s Lab: Story of View

Share the fun of GFIRE’S SUMMER VACATION as she travels on an odyssey through the space-time continuum to the place where old-timey American music meets the 21st century!

Music and Mantra will concentrate on the musical side of kundalini yoga through the practice of yoga kriyas and chanting to open the fifth chakra (throat chakra). We’ll use the recently released CD “Electric Sadhana” to create an extended experience … Continue reading →

Good girls. Sluts. Secrets. Questions. Desire. Giving voice. Saying ‘No.’ What do I want? Regaining power. In their own words…

Performing with his band ‘little house’, Gregory Alan Isakov is an artist that gives us the true essence of song craft. lucid, lyrical, raw and rusty folk songs…

Brimming with belly laughs, disarming honesty and hilarious show tunes, Spiritual Buffet feasts on world religions, exploring how something meant to bind us has become so dangerously divisive.

A Paranoid’s Guide to History is a monologue style one-man show with musical accompaniment. The show examines the absurd and the tragic, producing a kaleidoscopic representation of post-consumer cultural consciousness.

Figure sculpture flowing outward towards the viewer in an emotional and energetic pulseation. Jenny Oeleis seeks the resonance of the human spirit through the expression of the three dimensional form.

A woman sits alone. Stripped down to her headset. Confined to voicemail. A living computer image, lost amidst technological innards. Floating on the superhighway. Here she lives. In someone else’s domain.

The focus of As the Crow Flies is to foster relationships between youth and elders through improvisational movement. Our hope is to challenge the public to expand their definitions of beauty, dance, and art by giving them the opportunity to … Continue reading →

Dahn Yoga is a holistic approach to healthy living by awakening the vital Ki (Chi) energy. Each class integrates body, mind, spirit through Yoga Stretching, Body-Centered Meditation, Relaxation, Deep Breathing and Tai-Chi. Beginners welcome. Joanne Edwards attained a Black Belt … Continue reading →

This class helps actors radically expand their vocal expressiveness and also enhance their breath work (the support network for the voice). Students will learn new and exciting ways to create characters, analyze and express beat changes, enhance their use of … Continue reading →

Public performance of SCA Director’s Lab: Vocal Virtuosity

A bathtub. Seven Veils. Percussion … and a snack. A typical coming of age story

Drumming guided meditation is an ancient way to help people experience awareness in the subtle realms. This workshop is for anyone who wants to delve into their own divine consciousness. This guided meditation is about opening your heart and mind … Continue reading →

This workshop is a hands-on experience. This class will go into the main 7 chakras and their correlation to the energy fields and work with these systems. The class will teach Grounding Techniques, correct use of working with energy, clearing … Continue reading →

Rujeko’s co-director ignites the mythical mind, engaging spontaneous crafting in all original dance, voice and music. Art with ritual sensibility – bold in its subtlety- at once wild, passionate and quietly attentive.

Raw and explosive modern dance where risk and relationship intertwine with crashing force and sublime surrender. “ Bold and unruly…captivating!” (Rafael Benítez Giralt) “ Outstanding Choreography!” (Dance-Forms)

Solo and group exercises that build to these unique creations explore the realms of being-on-the-spot, body and voice as communicative tools, and uncovering humor, meaning and frivolity in brevity. Exercises for releasing the body and voice as well as the … Continue reading →

Public Performance of SCA Director’s Lab: Theatrical Haiku

In this fast paced, oddball comedy, an obsessed theatergoer breaks the boundaries between a neurotic writer and you the audience. A very queer romance is about to unfold!

In this workshop, children will write their way into the world of nonsense, opposites, fantasy, and the impossible. Through examples and hands-on writing exercises in poetry and prose, children will explore their inner imagination and unique voice. The workshop will … Continue reading →

CHILDREN’S POETRY READING Where People Stand on Their Heads Through examples and hands-on writing exercises in poetry and prose, children will explore their inner imagination and unique voice. Each student will complete a self-published, illustrated booklet, as well as present … Continue reading →

a Multi-Media Dance Performance 8:00 Red Carpet arrival Onye Ozuzu & Dennis Flippin Installation 9:00 “Mariposa on the Fringe” dance, music, and visuals by Kim Olson/Sweet Edge, Christy Harris, Mary Kite, Ana Baer, Betsy Tobin, Tumblebones, Onye Ozuzu/ Skeleton Dance … Continue reading →

An international sensation from the National Theatre, England! When alienation and hate take-over Michael’s secure and stable world, he SNAPS, finding comfort in the extreme-religious-right. A frighteningly comic wake-up call!

This modern-day starlet introduces hypnotic remixes of vintage jazz and new skool trip-hop into a one-woman speakeasy that will leave you swooning in pretty dreamscapes.

They wash their brains out, slash their point shoes, and make themselves dizzy. Such visions move through the stage in an evening of work by six contemporary choreographers.

Beautiful, profane, dark, and funny! Follow one man’s journey from ritual to rebellion to redemption, complete with scrambled eggs and operatic arias. Not for the faint of heart.

Awake, oh children of light! Come hear the greatest love story never told, that of Magdalene and Jesus, revealed through the explosive and passionate sounds of this musical rock opera.

A young musician, torn between two beauties. One is rich, the other… strange. Mugwumpin, winners of Best of SF Fringe (2004), adapt a classic Chinese ghost story with old-time American music and contemporary theatricality.

Anomaly – n. A deviation from the average or norm. Come enjoy music played from the heart , in the moment.

It’s a war against the imagination: for five days last August poets and artists read, sang, and danced to protest George Bush’s doctrine of terror and war. Documentary.

Accordion Haiku elopes with Sacred Kazoo in outrageous local favorite! Sexy butoh clowns wearing No-D glasses serenade the Puppet Ear. No two shows the same! Come five times! Leave singing!

Acrobatic, Athletic, Graceful and Zany, these dancers are in continual motion as they wrap themselves around the music and each other, gasping for air.

Getting to the bone – Two different autobiographical performances; one improv, one monologue; both from the body, both breaking open the heart of what it means to be human

The path to creative achievement presents many obstacles, some self-imposed by our conceptual conditioning, some external. This workshop, through specific experiential exercises, provides a means of transcending these obstacles by reconnecting with the intuition of direct experience. This affirmation of … Continue reading →

Public performance of SCA Director’s Lab: Being in Theater – Explorations in Creative Awareness

Everybody in this town has a story. Now tell yours! We do comicathartic improv that enacts stories told by the audience because we are serious about what makes life funny!

A tale of madness and myth, that travels, collapses, swims, and flies on the strings of balloons. (inspired by Darwin and fishbowls). Dance theatre work by Ramsie Rue.

A diverse collage of emerging musicians from an open source music organization that endeavors to facilitate and encourage people to create and share music, both locally and globally.

Money Management- Are you living ‘hand to mouth’? What EXACTLY do you need to become financially independent? Are you ‘hoping’ you’ll be ok at retirement or, do you have a written roadmap to become debt free and retire wealthy? What … Continue reading →

Debt Management-What would it be like to not have a mortgage payment? Learn how to take 9 years off a 30-year mortgage, easily. How credit cards & mortgages REALLY work. This seminar teaches you how to eliminate all of your … Continue reading →

Investing for women- Statistically, women outlive men by 7-10 years. This seminar will discuss the fundamentals of investing and help women build a nest egg that they won’t outlive! Samantha, Jackie, Dave and Karen all work for Primerica. Primerica is … Continue reading →

Watch one of the world’s greatest jugglers re-invent what you know as juggling. Diving in dumpsters, balancing on rails, amazing near misses, bone shattering stunts, all while defying gravity!)

9 times “BEST OF FRINGE” winner! – Rutherford says, “I worshipped my guitar teacher. I never would have made a move on his girlfriend if he hadn’t suggested it. IT’S NOT MY FAULT!

A documentary inhabiting the life and work of the Qi Shu Fang Peking Opera Company. Ms. Qi and company, leave fame in their homeland for artistic freedom in NY City.

In this workshop we will look at traditionally non-literary art forms with an eye towards cross-pollinating our own, literary, work, alongside a historical examination and exploration of the narrative structures at play in various art forms. Teresa Sparks is the … Continue reading →

Public performance of Narratives/Structures of Power/Desire: Dancing Ideas

The perfect nightcap to a Fringe-filled day, The Eskimo Show! a “Late Night”-style talk show, features sneak previews, live advertisements, and hilarious off-the-cuff interviews with Boulder Fringe 2005′s artists, all in the casual environs of the Fringe Club, where you … Continue reading →

Lois Lane, head of the world’s largest media empire, has been asssasinated. Superman didn’t rescue her. One superhero can’t be expected to save everyone considering the disaster the world has become.

An original sketch comedy show full of characters you know too well, or wish you didn’t know at all! From a marionette love triangle, to “things better left unsaid”.

“Jaw-dropping and hilarious!” -Los Angeles Times “Controlled mayhem.” -New York Times Chainsaws, flames, knives, audience members flying through the air! Don’t miss this internationally-known, award-winning comedy duo.

Join Kjersti I. Webb for her latest work, “Underwoman”. “This show will kick your ass off.” raves journalist Vinnie Rosmunfisgumunimismig. “You’ll freak out, I swear to holy god!”

Tim Mooney blows the lid off of the seamy karaoke underbelly, with sixteen hilarious and ironic original songs critics are comparing with Tom Waits, Talking Heads, Tom Lehrer and Sparks!

Tin House Experimental Dance presents The Pink Lady. Observe the escapades of three dancers, one dress and a shi pment of fruit. It’s biblical, it’s sexual, it’s shocking . . . definitely not ballet.

Toby Sinkinson and special guests turn over stones to find music in unlikely places. Using unusual musical devices and field recordings of Colorado, their playful improvisations uncover sounds unheard.

The Hollow Reed Ensemble, featuring the bell-like vocalizations of T.C. Horton, performs originally-composed jazz selections that soothe the mind, inspire the heart, and refresh the spirit.

The paintings being shown are a discipline focused on action with a goal of creating both awareness and peace.

Please join us for an evening of culture, conversation, and wonderful FRINGE Visual Art ! Six, that’s right, six fringy artists combine to bring you: The first annual Visual Fringe at the 2005 Boulder International Fringe Festival – Main Gallery … Continue reading →