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2026 Festival 29 Sept-18 Oct

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Pulse

Flesh Mirror


Name: Flesh Mirror
Subtitle: Surreal reflections.
Tags: Disability Stories,Pop Culture,Real Stories
Vibes: Compelling,Joyful,Surreal
Programs: Curated Program,Pulse
Guides: 
Credits:
Presented by Arts House and Melbourne Fringe as part of Pulse 
Artist Rebecca Jensen, Weave Movement Theatre and collaborators
 
Description:
Flesh Mirror weaves together references from sci-fi films, pop songs, cultural theory and biographical content from the Weave ensemble. Slipping into the mirror world, scenes layer and build, creating a surreal collage, delving into fractured narratives of the other, duel realities, the alien. Using sunglasses as both costume and allegory for another world, a doppelgänger, an ideology, this work blends live performance and video in a choreographic documentary/mockumentary.


Curated Program

Pushing the comfort zone

Experimental

Contemporary

Theatre

Dance

Surreal reflections.

Compelling

Joyful

Surreal

The Quieter You Become


Name: The Quieter You Become
Subtitle: An immersive spatial sound work exploring expanded perspectives of hearing and listening.
Tags: 
Vibes: Contemplative,Contemporary,Dynamic
Programs: Curated Program,Pulse
Guides: 
Credits:
Presented by Melbourne Fringe and The Substation
Created and Performed by Tilman Robinson
 
Description:
This is an immersive sound installation. Audience will be seated within a space containing an installation of speakers that are tree-like in their design. Hence the word 'forest' in the blurb. At times, the audience will put on headphones to experience different modes of listening and hearing sound.


Music

Live Art

Hybrid

An immersive spatial sound work exploring expanded perspectives of hearing and listening.

Contemplative

Dynamic

REQUIEM FOR A CUDDLE


Name: REQUIEM FOR A CUDDLE
Subtitle: Plunge into the centre of a menacing and moving sonic cuddle.
Tags: Interactive,Unusual Location,Original Music
Vibes: Exhilarating,Haunting,Uplifting
Programs: Curated Program,Pulse
Guides: 
Credits:
Presented by Melbourne Fringe
Created by Harrison Ritchie-Jones
Performed by Michaela Tancheff, Harrison Ritchie-Jones & Fabian Acuna
Description:
The work positions the audience in the centre of a 80-100 piece choir who surround the audience and conjure a storm of emotional and inspiring choir music. ALL choir members are wearing the ubiquitous CUDDLE balaclavas and are accompanied by a world class trumpet player dressed as a swan, while Michaela Tancheff and Harrison Ritchie-Jones do their final Cuddle-esque dance.


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Inside the comfort zone

Immersive

Plunge into the centre of a menacing and moving sonic cuddle.

Exhilarating

Haunting

Uplifting

Tattoo Show


Name: Tattoo Show
Subtitle: A live art, truth and dare show hosted by the Rawcus Ensemble and a professional tattoo artist
Tags: Disability Stories,Interactive,Pop Culture,Real Stories
Vibes: Contemplative,Subversive,Unpredictable
Programs: Curated Program,Festival Hub,Pulse
Guides: 
Credits:
Presented by Melbourne Fringe
Created and Performed by Rawcus
In Collaboration with tattoo artist Xani Kennedy
Description:
4 members of the Rawcus Ensemble (an ensemble of artists with and without disability) plus a professional tattoo artist (Xani Kennedy) interview a volunteer from the audience and design a tattoo for them. The volunteer can then choose to have the design tattooed live on stage. Opportunities for heightened theatricality and full audience participation are speckled throughout the evening. The show is very much about consent, so great care is taken to ensure the volunteer cared for.


Festival Hub

Participatory

A live art, truth and dare show hosted by the Rawcus Ensemble and a professional tattoo artist

Subversive

Unpredictable

UNWOMAN (the protest)


Name: UNWOMAN (the protest)
Subtitle: A durational artwork celebrating the multitude of experiences around birth, fertility and pregnancy.
Tags: Feminism,Gender Diversity,Interactive,Death/Grief,Real Stories
Vibes: Disruptive,Evocative,Vulnerable
Programs: Curated Program,Pulse
Guides: 
Credits:
Presented by Melbourne Fringe
Devised by THE RABBLE
Supported by Fed Square
Description:
UNWOMAN (the protest) is a durational performance event where 100s of community members will take the stage to share testimony one by one. Over the course of a month community members will attend workshops discussing their experiences of pregnancy, fertility, parenting and birth, supporting them to prepare their public testimony. It is designed as an individually empowering experience but also as a collective experience.


Free Events

Digital Event

Community

A durational artwork celebrating the multitude of experiences around birth, fertility and pregnancy.

Disruptive

Evocative

Vulnerable

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