Like many of our fellow arts organizations around the country, Aspen Fringe Festival canceled our planned summer season in response to the pandemic. While our June Festival at the Wheeler Opera House will resume in 2021, we were thrilled to present a modified season of LIVE performances at the Aspen District Theatre this year. Featuring specially commissioned works from SOULSKIN Dance, guest choreographers and multimedia screenings of new works from our award-winning playwrights, AFF’S FallFest celebrated the importance of human connection through the arts during unprecedented times of isolation.
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We are pleased to offer the entire production of FallFest 2020 for online viewing.
The Program
PARALLEL DIALOGUES
SOULSKIN Dance trailer
Exploring the healing power of intimacy.
Director: Jaco Strydom Choreography: Adrianna Thompson
Music: Noh Dancers: Ryan Camou, Emanuel Colombo, Dylan Elmore, Delvis Savigne Frinon, Margot Lena, Adonis Martin, Andrea McGinnis, Allie Papazian, Adrianna Thompson
L’amore verticale
Live Dance + Film
There are places where you are carried by time,
by the wind where trees pierce the sky and souls cling to trunks.
Here, waiting dominates: the enchantment of stillness.
We both knew that loneliness would act without acting.
Silence passed through us as snow crosses the woods.
Fear did not find the way, it got lost in the white of words.
We carefully inhabited the body. We dreamed hard.
Here, we have built a vertical love where we contemplate the repetition of the wonder.
Choreography: ANNARITA RINCONI
Dancers & Filming: Samantha Altenau, Giacomo Bavutti
Film Direction: Annarita Rinconi Film Editing: Michele Carolfi
SHE LEFT HOME FOR A WHILE
Original Film
A metaphor for the pre-COVID life.
TEXT & VOICED BY: SIMON STEPHENS 2021 AFF Playwright-in-Residence
DIRECTOR: William Kahn
FEATURING: David Ledingham
PHOTOGRAPHY & EDITING: Joshua Kessler
Until the world is the world again
TEXT BY: JOHN KOLVENBACH 2013 AFF Playwright-in-Residence
FEATURING: Julia Foran, Aidan Ledingham
EDITING: Nikki Boxer
SHELTER IN PLACE
A dance film in quarantine by SOULSKIN Dance.
Choreography: Adrianna Thompson
FILM: Jaco Strydom
Music: Noh
Dancers: Emanuel Colombo, Jamielyn Duggan, Delvis Savigne Frinon, ArVejon Jones, Barbara Koch, Margot Lena, Adonis Martin, Andrea McGinnis, Alejandra Preciado, Adrianna Thompson
CARRIE
TEXT BY: SHARR WHITE 2015 AFF Playwright-in-Residence
FEATURING: Eileen Seeley
VISUAL DESIGN & EDITING: Nikki Boxer
CLOSER
SOULSKIN Dance
Choreography: Adrianna Thompson
Dancers: Samantha Altenau, Giacomo Bavutti