ROCHESTER, N.Y., July 24,
2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The Rochester Fringe Festival
held its "Big Reveal" Press Conference today announcing the full
lineup for the 2024 Fringe, which takes place September 10 – 21 at more than 30 venues in and
around downtown Rochester, New
York. Rochester's
not-for-profit Fringe has become one of the largest, most
successful fringe festivals in the nation, the largest
multidisciplinary performing arts festival in New York State, and was named by
the New York Times as "one
of the country's more prominent multidisciplinary events."
![Interior view of Daedalum by Architects of Air. Created and designed by Alan Parkinson, and handmade in Nottingham, UK, Daedalum consists of 19 egg-shaped domes. Interior view of Daedalum by Architects of Air. Created and designed by Alan Parkinson, and handmade in Nottingham, UK, Daedalum consists of 19 egg-shaped domes.](https://mma.prnewswire.com/media/2468637/Daedalum_by_Architects_of_Air.jpg)
Fringe organizers announced today that they will present the
world-renowned Architects of Air's Daedalum luminarium for
all 12 days of the festival. Since 1992, more than three
million visitors in over 40 countries across five continents have
been welcomed into Architects of Air's monumental luminaria, which
are designed by Alan Parkinson and
hand-crafted in Nottingham,
England. Each new creation is a maze of winding paths and
inspiring domes where the visitors may lose themselves in sensory
bliss.
Nightly in the festival's Spiegeltent, the Fringe will present
the new, world premiere production – Cirque du Fringe:
Varieté – a kitschy, modern circus featuring
Las Vegas legends and festival
favorites Matt and Heidi Morgan,
along with a hair-hand aerialists, unicyclists, and a basketball
juggler from France's Got
Talent.
Also, in the Spiegeltent, the Fringe presents Britain's favorite French comedian Marcel
Lucont for two U.S. premieres -- Marcel Lucont's Whine
List, and Marcel Lucont: Les Enfants Terribles, A Gameshow
for Awful Children – a wild family gameshow.
Direct from sold-out runs at the Kennedy Center and Chicago
Shakes, the Fringe present Rochester native, magician, and
New York Times crossword
puzzle constructor, David Kwong, in
The Enigmatist, also in the festival's Spiegeltent.
MONUMENTS, an extraordinary site-responsive, outdoor
video projection event from famed Australian visual artists
Craig Walsh, will project the images
of three Rochesterians who have given back to the community on
three tall trees downtown. This is the second and final year of the
event and honors new community members.
The annual free Kids Day returns on Saturday, September 21, with activities including
pumpkin painting, Disco Kids, and chalk art and Fringe
Street Beat, the popping, locking, breakdance
competition.
And rounding out the lineup, NBC alum Pete Davidson will headline on Friday, September 13 at Kodak Hall at Eastman
Theatre.
The full 2024 lineup featuring 250 productions and more than 650
performances over 12 days as well as ticket links can be found at
rochesterfringe.com
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SOURCE Rochester Fringe Festival, Inc.