In Performance: Houston Fringe Festival (Houston, TX, USA)

Loose Ends by ChinaCat Dance (Houston, TX)

The Houston Fringe Festival is an annual performing arts festival presented by FrenetiCore in Houston’s East End. This year’s festival takes place over three weekends August 30 – September 15, 2012 at three different performance venues, offering the best independent theatre, film, dance, music and visual arts from Houston area artists and beyond.

The 2012 Fringe welcomes performers from all over Texas and the United States. Featuring disciplines ranging from puppetry and burlesque to drama and contemporary dance. Experimental art veterans perform alongside daring newcomers, with each piece presented between 15-60 minutes in length.

Look out for more information about upcoming Fringe Workshops taught by performers, after parties, visual arts exhibits and the ‘Anything Goes’ Weekend September 14-15: two fast-paced, decidedly chaotic evenings featuring Houston’s best performance artists.

Tickets are $10 per indivdual show or save with 5 & 10 performance packs ($40/$70) and an unlimited all-access Fringe pass for only $85. A portion of proceeds from each all-access pass sold will benefit FrenetiKids, a free after-school dance & theatre program for Houston’s East End neighborhood youth. Purchase tickets at https://freneticore.secure.force.com/ticket#sections_a0Fd0000006qBcBEAU

For more information and a full, detailed performance schedule visit www.houstonfringefestival.org

This year’s festival performers include:
ANIKAI Dance Theater (Somerville, MA)
Audacity Theatre Lab (Carrollton, TX)
Cameron Frederick Sands & Nataly Linares
ChinaCat Dance
Cori Miller
Corian Ellisor & Alex Abarca
Dem Dam Dames
Edge Theatre
FrenetiCore
Gary Watson
George Heathco and Luke Hubley
Houston Burlesque Revue
Jason Fick and Ilana Morgan (Denton, TX)
Jessica Capistran and Alexandra Di Nunzio
jhon r. stronks|”there … in the sunlight.”
Jim Mackenzie
Justin Davis (Austin, TX)
Ken Jones
Kevin J Thornton Entertainment (Nashville, TN)
Margo Toombs
Melissa Watt (Denton, TX)
Morningstar Theatrical Productions
Out on a Limb Dance Company (Waco, TX)
Outspoken Bean
Psychedelic Blues Collective
Rogue Improv
Roy Hamlin
The Dirty Verbs
The Joanna Gallery
The Sleepy Border Town Insomniacs (Edinburgh, TX)

Information from: Houston Fringe Festival, 5102 Navigation Blvd, Houston, TX 77011. To learn more, visit: www.houstonfringefestival.org

Houston Fringe Festival (photo by Lynn Lane)