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Read on for some tips about where to start and what to see. First, let’s start with what is the Fringe and where did it start? The Fort Collins - [FoCo Fringe Fest is Back. Get Your Tickets!](https://focofringe.org/foco-fringe-fest-is-back-get-your-tickets/): FoCo Fringe returns June 11–14, 2026, with 25 shows, 140+ performers, and 50+ performances to six venues around Fort Collins. Genres include theatre, dance, comedy, live music, and more. - [Fort Collins Fringe Festival: The Celebration of Performance Art Returns in 2026](https://focofringe.org/fort-collins-fringe-festival-revival/): FoCo Fringe! is back – June 11–14, 2026 in Downtown Fort Collins. Bold, original, uncensored performance art: theater, dance, comedy, circus & more. Get your festival pass. - [Apply to present your work at FoCo Fringe 2026](https://focofringe.org/apply-to-present-your-work-at-foco-fringe-2026/): Calling all performance artists! Priority deadline to apply for 2026 festival is March 11 - 14, 2026. - [Save the Date! FoCo Fringe June 11 - 14, 2026](https://focofringe.org/save-the-date-fringe-festival-june-2026/): The Fort Collins Fringe Festival will return June 11 - June 14, 2026. You don't want to miss this family friendly performing arts festival in downtown Fort Collins. - [FoCo Fringe at First Friday! October 3rd](https://focofringe.org/foco-fringe-first-friday-october-3rd-2025/): We hope you'll come say hello at First Fridays on October 3rd at the Museum of Art Fort Collins. 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Explore the Shows - [Audience Choice Awards](https://focofringe.org/awards/) - [What's on Next](https://focofringe.org/next-show/): 25+ Shows, 50+ Performances. Experience the unexpected at FoCo Fringe View All Shows - [Terms and Conditions](https://focofringe.org/terms/): Terms of Use Fort Collins Fringe FestivalEffective Date: June 6, 2026 Our official website: https://focofringe.orgWarning regarding our prior site before July 2021: FoCo Fringe lost access to our old domain; information found at the old domain is out-of-date and not under the control of FoCo Fringe. The old site was located at fringe festival fort - [Privacy Policy](https://focofringe.org/privacy-policy/): Privacy Policy for Fort Collins Fringe Festival, last updated July 11, 2025. - [Social Media Graphic for your Show](https://focofringe.org/artists/social-media-graphic-for-your-show/) - [Volunteer](https://focofringe.org/volunteer/): The Fringe is an amazing way to meet people and make the festival possible. Help us with front of house, ushering, tech, and more. Let's Fringe! - [About the Fringe](https://focofringe.org/about/): FoCo Fringe is part of a global movement of festivals celebrating performance art of all kinds. The Fort Collins Fringe launched in 2013 and is now back. # - [Get Involved](https://focofringe.org/get-involved/): The Fringe is a community effort in celebration of performance art and artists of all kinds. Be part of the magic and let us know how you'd like to be involved in the Fringe. - [For Artists](https://focofringe.org/artists/): Call all performance artists! Be part of the Fringe in June 2026. We welcome theater, dance, comedy, mime, circus, and more. Learn about application, timeline, and more. Fort Collins Colorado Performance Opportunities. - [Apply to Perform](https://focofringe.org/artists/apply/): Apply to Perform Calling all Performance Artists! We can't wait to hear from you and learn about your performance project. After you review the Artists Handbook and FAQ, submit your application below. Apply to Perform Visit Artist Handbook & FAQ Apply to Perform! - [Fringe Archives](https://focofringe.org/archives/): The archives for the Fort Collins Fringe Festival from 2013 to today will be available soon. - [Contact Us](https://focofringe.org/contact/): Say Hello We'd love to connect with you! ## Merch - [Youth and Family Access Pass](https://focofringe.org/merch/youth-and-student-tickets/): DESCRIPTION ## Venues - [Sound Bar Main Stage](https://focofringe.org/venues/soundbar-main-stage/): Sound Bar - Premier live music venue, nightclub & concert hall in Fort Collins, CO. Featuring rock, EDM, indie, punk shows, raves, and private events. - [Wolverine Farm & Publik House Upstairs](https://focofringe.org/venues/wolverine-farm-publik-house-upstairs/): Welcome to Wolverine Farm Publick House! The Publick House is not your typical rental space—we are owned by a non-profit publishing company, and all profits benefit our mission of publishing quality literature and art that mindfully engage humans with the world. Inside the Publick House you’ll find a full service coffee shop, wine and beer - [Fort Collins Circus Center](https://focofringe.org/venues/fort-collins-circus-center/): The one and only Fort Collins Circus Center has been transformed into a performance space for Aerial arts and bold creativity! - [Visit Fort Collins Welcome Center](https://focofringe.org/venues/visit-fort-collins-welcome-center/): The Fort Collins Welcome Center operates as the city’s primary Visitor Welcome and Information Center while also serving as a musical, artistic, cultural, and communal convening space for Fort Collins. The venue includes a small stage area with four fixed stage lights: two front lights (stage left and stage right) and two lights covering the - [Sound Bar Alley Stage](https://focofringe.org/venues/soundbar-alley-stage/): A unique outdoor performance space in the back alley of Soundbar in downtown Fort Collins with a stage and seating for 40 audience members. - [Foothills Unitarian Church](https://focofringe.org/venues/foothills-unitarian-church/): A welcoming faith community with a 300+ seat sanctuary and performance space. Foothills Unitarian Church partners with many nonprofit and community groups, and is the homebase for Playcrafters Kids, which offers immersive experiences in the creative and performing arts. - [Bas Bleu Theatre](https://focofringe.org/venues/bas-bleu-theatre/): Bas Bleu is an intimate (100 seat) salon theatre in Old Town Fort Collins. We produce fiour full theatrical productions per year, house an art gallery, feature Readers’ Theatre, host the Comedy Brewers Improv Troupe, and produce several musical events per year. Bas Bleu is also a rental facility so contact rentals@basbleu.org if you would ## Events - [The LuneAtics Lounge: the Creature Within](https://focofringe.org/events/the-luneatics-lounge-the-creature-within/): Discover the creatures within and see if you can look it head on from LuneAseas | Dance & Physical Theatre | LuneAtics Lounge merges intimacy with unease through live music, contemporary dance, and shadow-driven horror storytelling. Featuring a six-minute parachute choreography and new work, the salon-style experience blurs performer and witness, inviting audiences into the raw beginnings of creation. - [The Story Bakers](https://focofringe.org/events/the-story-bakers/): Bringing kids' stories to life on stage! from The Story Bakers | Children & Youth | Using magical ingredients (including our Super Secret Story Flour) mixed together with the limitless imaginations of kids, The Story Bakers build memorable story “cakes” with their audiences. After a short, interactive lesson using the cake layers to teach the elements of story, The Story Bakers perform stories written by kids in grades K-5. In 45 - [Closing Party & Awards](https://focofringe.org/events/closing-party-awards/): from Fort Collins Fringe Festival | Party | Join us to celebrate the artistry and creativity of the 2026 Fort Collins Fringe Festival featuring audience choice and festival awards, cash bar, and good company. - [CB’s RATi0, Tinderdust, w/Wicked Velvet](https://focofringe.org/events/cbs-rati0-tinderdust-wicked-velvet/): A Musical Circus, presented by Blast N Scrap from CB.s RATi0 | Circus | The ol Scrappy Circus is coming to town, for TWO events at the Fort Collins Circus Center.We’ll have it all! From holographic displays, to aerialists who sing. Interactive art stations, to live performances from CB’s RATi0, Tinderdust, & Wicked Velvet.Want to take part by bringing elements of freak show, burlesque, vaudeville, & comedy to the - [Exposure](https://focofringe.org/events/exposure/): An insight into the magical mind of The Illustrious James Lopez from The Exposure Project/ James Lopez | Theatre | Exposure is a most modern magic show for a most modern audience. Combining wit, storytelling, atmosphere, and sleight of hand magic, Exposure aims to be the perfect combination of late night debauchery and elegant experience.Everyone has always had a fascination at some point with magic. For many magicians there is a balance they play between - [What Ails Adelaide](https://focofringe.org/events/what-ails-adelaide/): Pulling herself back together one clown at a time from Heather Ostberg Johnson / Jess MacMaster | Dance & Physical Theatre | Sometimes we lose our heads. Sometimes we lose the other bits.Far below, in a strange and shadowed world of clowns and control, Adelaide must find her way back to herself. - [ReFinding](https://focofringe.org/events/refinding/): A Young Man’s Journey from Scott David Trout | Theatre | There is a Song that the earth knows, but humans have forgotten... the song says "I am fearfully and wonderfully made."Scott is on a journey to ReFind his song, through the twists and turns of his homeschooled beginnings. Like many of us, looking for love was Scott's first attempts to refind the song.But there is - [Opening Ceremony & Fringe Preview](https://focofringe.org/events/opening-ceremony-artist-preview/): from Fort Collins Fringe Festival | Party | Get a sneak peak all there is to see at the Fringe! Join us for the Opening Ceremony & Preview Show to see a fast 60-90 second preview of each Fringe show. You don't want to miss this tradition. The doors open at 6:30pm so you can mingle with the artists. - [Zest! A New Children's Musical](https://focofringe.org/events/zest-a-new-childrens-musical/): It's sweet, zesty, and full of heart! from Playcrafter Kids | Theatre | When life hands you lemons... you make a musical!ZEST! A New Children’s Musical is a joyful, high-energy original production created by Playcrafter Kids. What begins as a friendly neighborhood competition between rival lemonade stands quickly turns into something much bigger when the kids discover their beloved local co-op and café is in danger of closing.Through - [Vagina Man](https://focofringe.org/events/vagina-man/): A one-trans-man show from Ren Q. Dawe | Variety | Vagina Man is a defiant one-man variety show about trans identity, visibility, and touring all 50 states in a body everyone has an opinion about. Part stand-up, part storytelling, part circus, it’s a heartfelt and ridiculous exploration of gender, travel, government, and what happens when you refuse to stay quiet. - [The Little Big Circus](https://focofringe.org/events/the-little-big-circus/): The Little Big Circus from Fort Collins Circus Center | Circus | As spring fades into summer, the circus begins to stir. The Big Little Circus is a joyful local carnival featuring aerial, juggling, acro yoga, hooping, and clowns—a small circus with a big heart. - [The Greatest ShowWoman](https://focofringe.org/events/the-greatest-showwoman/): Where Women Take Center Stage from The Greatest ShowWoman | Circus | The Greatest ShowWoman is a modern circus spectacle led by women—combining daring movement, luminous LED work, and powerful ensemble moments into one unforgettable show. - [The Forts We Built And The Things We Did Inside Them](https://focofringe.org/events/the-forts-we-built-and-the-things-we-did-inside-them/): Freak music from The Forts We Built And The Things We Did Inside Them | Live Music | My work mostly involves creating sweeping dark ambient compositions that play heavily into the use of space both physically and in the air of the music. I blend active sound design with lulling drones and poetry, as well as an element of live video modulation - [Synergy - A Dance Performance Collaboration](https://focofringe.org/events/synergy-a-dance-performance-collaboration/): Better together: where individual artistry meets collective magic! from Synergy - A Dance Performance Collaboration | Dance & Physical Theatre | NOCO artists come together in Synergy to present original dance works in a collective performance highlighting diverse dance styles that promote creative expression and artistic impact! - [Scam Likely!](https://focofringe.org/events/scam-likely/): Proceed! from Scam Likely | Comedy | Don't hang up! A totally made up comedy show! With your help! - [PLASTERED Peter Pan](https://focofringe.org/events/plastered-peter-pan/): The Boozical! from Acting Tipsy Theatre Co. | Theatre | The classic story of Peter Pan...with a DRUKEN twist. Each show one actor's name will be selected and they will have to perform the show drunk. All original music, drinking challenges, puppets, audience participation, and scripted sober actors trying to keep the show on the rails. - [Open Mic at the Fringe](https://focofringe.org/events/open-mic-at-the-fringe/): Share your talent at the Open Mic/Open Stage. from FoCo Community and Sound Bar | Variety | The Fort Collins Fringe Festival bring together artists and the community to discover performance art that is bold, raw, and unexpected.Inspired by all the artists at the Preview Show? Want to jump on stage and be part of the magic?Sound Bar is hosting an Open Mic after the Fringe Preview Show for anyone who wants - [NIMBy, CO 80443](https://focofringe.org/events/nimby-co-80443/): Carefree and Always Smiling from Zachary France | Live Music | Howdy, I am a solo Noise Musician out of Summit County. My live act is largely improve using non musical sound gear to create sound. Its a playful mixture of spoken word and deconstructed music, intended to build and relieve tension around small town trauma. - [Neolithic Poetry](https://focofringe.org/events/neolithic-poetry/): Poetry as the ancients knew it from Jacob C. Sadler, Auberdine Publishing | Poetry & Spoken Word | Local Author and 30 under 30 honoree, Jacob Sadler, takes us to a time before TikTok, TV, and spray-tanned tyrants, to when the spoken word was king and stories were told in verse.This is not your typical coffee-sipping, finger-snapping poetry. - [MONSTER STORY](https://focofringe.org/events/monster-story/): Embrace your inner monster through aerial, dance, dreams, and nightmares. from Highly Classified | Circus | "Have you checked to see if anything is hiding under your bed lately? You might find yourself swept away to the world of dreams and nightmares of **MONSTER STORY**. This aerial and dance spectacular will fully transport you to another world as we join our heroine and her boogieman sidekick on an epic, sensual, and comedic - [Learning Curves](https://focofringe.org/events/learning-curves/): A one-woman show through the twists and turns of coming of age from Tongue in Cheek Theater Productions / Jake Lipman | Theatre | Can a perky, middle-aged rule-follower once and for all face the demons of her middle school alma mater before the building is razed to the ground?A girl named Jake grows up outside of Boston, loving school and singing in choir. But everything changes the year she turns twelve — she develops early, she’s spurned by - [Jack’s Box](https://focofringe.org/events/jacks-box/): Drama from Kaleb Hacker | Theatre | In 1971 Lonoke Arkansas, Vietnam vet Charlie Martin returns home to care for his dying dementia-ridden mother, Jane, who keeps mistaking him for her late abusive WW2 Veteran husband. As her memory fades, buried family trauma and war scars surface, leading to a bittersweet dance of healing and goodbye. - [I'm an Adult... Apparently](https://focofringe.org/events/im-an-adult-apparently/): Or something like that. from Samuel Colin Munoz | Comedy | A 19-year-old’s journey through mental health, relationships, and the chaos of ‘adulting’ — still stuck in high school but officially an adult... apparently. - [I Can Almost Reach You](https://focofringe.org/events/i-can-almost-reach-you/): Two creatures in a finite territory discovering an endless dreamscape from Grace Cooper & Margaret Brackey | Dance & Physical Theatre | “I Can Almost Reach You” takes two creatures to the shoreline between sleep and awake. This duet, co-choreographed by Grace Cooper and Margaret Brackey uses elements of dance, physical theater, and improvisation, to explore land ethics and territory in the more-than-human world. - [Greatest Garage Sale Ever](https://focofringe.org/events/greatest-garage-sale-ever/): A one woman, multiple character, comedy cabaret from Danielle Ate the Sandwich | Comedy | You’re sure to find a unique treasure at this garage sale, loaded with a cast of hilarious characters as they share stories, songs, and bizarre experiences through videos, live monologues and musical performances. Wear your favorite garage sale outfit and fall in love with this outrageous community as they remind us who we are, what - [Dreamer After Midnight](https://focofringe.org/events/dreamer-after-midnight/): The Diary of a Queer Latino from Teatro Latino Foco | Theatre | Work, work, and just work... Can this gay boy just catch a break?Let us introduce you to the life of a queer dreamer, navigating life, work, and dating, and his struggles to find his place in life.Our leading man is a Capricorn queen who tends to overwork himself and complain about it, yet he keeps - [Comedy Brewers](https://focofringe.org/events/comedy-brewers/): Improv Comedy from Comedy Brewers | Comedy | The Comedy Brewers will present a long form improvised musical, based on audience suggestions. With premier musical and improvisational skills, the Comedy Brewers lay down a narrative story with musical elements, that will never be seen again. Join us! - [Born and Raised on a Submarine](https://focofringe.org/events/born-and-raised-on-a-submarine/): Misunderstandings over Morse Code from Thompson Powers | Comedy | When is a song no longer a song? Strum the Clown learned the chords and lyrics to life’s greatest hits, but doesn’t know the timing or the tune. Is he uniquely different or just wrong? - [Ankle Drag](https://focofringe.org/events/ankle-drag/): NoCo live music phenomenon from Ankle Drag | Live Music | A live music experience like you've never seen before! High energy stage stunts, dramatic performance art, and music you know and love from the 80s, 90s, and 2k. Ankle Drag will keep you on the edge of your seat while you sing along to every word. ## Performances - [The LuneAtics Lounge: the Creature Within](https://focofringe.org/performances/the-luneatics-lounge-the-creature-within/): LuneAtics Lounge merges intimacy with unease through live music, contemporary dance, and shadow-driven horror storytelling. Featuring a six-minute parachute choreography and new work, the salon-style experience blurs performer and witness, inviting audiences into the raw beginnings of creation. - [The LuneAtics Lounge: the Creature Within](https://focofringe.org/performances/the-luneatics-lounge-the-creature-within-2/): LuneAtics Lounge merges intimacy with unease through live music, contemporary dance, and shadow-driven horror storytelling. Featuring a six-minute parachute choreography and new work, the salon-style experience blurs performer and witness, inviting audiences into the raw beginnings of creation. - [The Story Bakers](https://focofringe.org/performances/the-story-bakers/): Using magical ingredients (including our Super Secret Story Flour) mixed together with the limitless imaginations of kids, The Story Bakers build memorable story “cakes” with their audiences. After a short, interactive lesson using the cake layers to teach the elements of story, The Story Bakers perform stories written by kids in grades K-5. In 45 - [Closing Party & Awards](https://focofringe.org/performances/closing-party-awards/): Join us to celebrate the artistry and creativity of the 2026 Fort Collins Fringe Festival featuring audience choice and festival awards, cash bar, and good company. - [CB’s RATi0, Tinderdust, w/Wicked Velvet](https://focofringe.org/performances/cbs-rati0-tinderdust-w-wicked-velvet/): The ol Scrappy Circus is coming to town, for TWO events at the Fort Collins Circus Center.We’ll have it all! From holographic displays, to aerialists who sing. Interactive art stations, to live performances from CB’s RATi0, Tinderdust, & Wicked Velvet.Want to take part by bringing elements of freak show, burlesque, vaudeville, & comedy to the - [CB’s RATi0, Tinderdust, w/Wicked Velvet](https://focofringe.org/performances/cbs-rati0-tinderdust-w-wicked-velvet-2/): The ol Scrappy Circus is coming to town, for TWO events at the Fort Collins Circus Center.We’ll have it all! From holographic displays, to aerialists who sing. Interactive art stations, to live performances from CB’s RATi0, Tinderdust, & Wicked Velvet.Want to take part by bringing elements of freak show, burlesque, vaudeville, & comedy to the - [Exposure](https://focofringe.org/performances/exposure-2/): Exposure is a most modern magic show for a most modern audience. Combining wit, storytelling, atmosphere, and sleight of hand magic, Exposure aims to be the perfect combination of late night debauchery and elegant experience.Everyone has always had a fascination at some point with magic. For many magicians there is a balance they play between - [Exposure](https://focofringe.org/performances/exposure-3/): Exposure is a most modern magic show for a most modern audience. Combining wit, storytelling, atmosphere, and sleight of hand magic, Exposure aims to be the perfect combination of late night debauchery and elegant experience.Everyone has always had a fascination at some point with magic. For many magicians there is a balance they play between - [Exposure](https://focofringe.org/performances/exposure/): Exposure is a most modern magic show for a most modern audience. Combining wit, storytelling, atmosphere, and sleight of hand magic, Exposure aims to be the perfect combination of late night debauchery and elegant experience.Everyone has always had a fascination at some point with magic. For many magicians there is a balance they play between - [What Ails Adelaide](https://focofringe.org/performances/what-ails-adelaide/): Sometimes we lose our heads. Sometimes we lose the other bits.Far below, in a strange and shadowed world of clowns and control, Adelaide must find her way back to herself. - [What Ails Adelaide](https://focofringe.org/performances/what-ails-adelaide-2/): Sometimes we lose our heads. Sometimes we lose the other bits.Far below, in a strange and shadowed world of clowns and control, Adelaide must find her way back to herself. - [ReFinding](https://focofringe.org/performances/refinding/): There is a Song that the earth knows, but humans have forgotten... the song says "I am fearfully and wonderfully made."Scott is on a journey to ReFind his song, through the twists and turns of his homeschooled beginnings. Like many of us, looking for love was Scott's first attempts to refind the song.But there is - [ReFinding](https://focofringe.org/performances/refinding-2/): There is a Song that the earth knows, but humans have forgotten... the song says "I am fearfully and wonderfully made."Scott is on a journey to ReFind his song, through the twists and turns of his homeschooled beginnings. Like many of us, looking for love was Scott's first attempts to refind the song.But there is - [ReFinding](https://focofringe.org/performances/refinding-3/): There is a Song that the earth knows, but humans have forgotten... the song says "I am fearfully and wonderfully made."Scott is on a journey to ReFind his song, through the twists and turns of his homeschooled beginnings. Like many of us, looking for love was Scott's first attempts to refind the song.But there is - [Opening Ceremony & Fringe Preview](https://focofringe.org/performances/opening-ceremony-fringe-preview/): Get a sneak peak all there is to see at the Fringe! Join us for the Opening Ceremony & Preview Show to see a fast 60-90 second preview of each Fringe show. You don't want to miss this tradition. The doors open at 6:30pm so you can mingle with the artists. - [Zest! A New Children's Musical](https://focofringe.org/performances/zest-a-new-childrens-musical/): When life hands you lemons... you make a musical!ZEST! A New Children’s Musical is a joyful, high-energy original production created by Playcrafter Kids. What begins as a friendly neighborhood competition between rival lemonade stands quickly turns into something much bigger when the kids discover their beloved local co-op and café is in danger of closing.Through - [Zest! A New Children's Musical](https://focofringe.org/performances/zest-a-new-childrens-musical-2/): When life hands you lemons... you make a musical!ZEST! A New Children’s Musical is a joyful, high-energy original production created by Playcrafter Kids. What begins as a friendly neighborhood competition between rival lemonade stands quickly turns into something much bigger when the kids discover their beloved local co-op and café is in danger of closing.Through - [Vagina Man](https://focofringe.org/performances/vagina-man/): Vagina Man is a defiant one-man variety show about trans identity, visibility, and touring all 50 states in a body everyone has an opinion about. Part stand-up, part storytelling, part circus, it’s a heartfelt and ridiculous exploration of gender, travel, government, and what happens when you refuse to stay quiet. - [Vagina Man](https://focofringe.org/performances/vagina-man-2/): Vagina Man is a defiant one-man variety show about trans identity, visibility, and touring all 50 states in a body everyone has an opinion about. Part stand-up, part storytelling, part circus, it’s a heartfelt and ridiculous exploration of gender, travel, government, and what happens when you refuse to stay quiet. - [The Little Big Circus](https://focofringe.org/performances/the-little-big-circus-2/): As spring fades into summer, the circus begins to stir. The Big Little Circus is a joyful local carnival featuring aerial, juggling, acro yoga, hooping, and clowns—a small circus with a big heart. - [The Little Big Circus](https://focofringe.org/performances/the-little-big-circus/): As spring fades into summer, the circus begins to stir. The Big Little Circus is a joyful local carnival featuring aerial, juggling, acro yoga, hooping, and clowns—a small circus with a big heart. - [The Greatest ShowWoman](https://focofringe.org/performances/the-greatest-showwoman/): The Greatest ShowWoman is a modern circus spectacle led by women—combining daring movement, luminous LED work, and powerful ensemble moments into one unforgettable show. - [The Greatest ShowWoman](https://focofringe.org/performances/the-greatest-showwoman-2/): The Greatest ShowWoman is a modern circus spectacle led by women—combining daring movement, luminous LED work, and powerful ensemble moments into one unforgettable show. - [The Greatest ShowWoman](https://focofringe.org/performances/the-greatest-showwoman-3/): The Greatest ShowWoman is a modern circus spectacle led by women—combining daring movement, luminous LED work, and powerful ensemble moments into one unforgettable show. - [The Forts We Built And The Things We Did Inside Them](https://focofringe.org/performances/the-forts-we-built-and-the-things-we-did-inside-them/): My work mostly involves creating sweeping dark ambient compositions that play heavily into the use of space both physically and in the air of the music. I blend active sound design with lulling drones and poetry, as well as an element of live video modulation - [The Forts We Built And The Things We Did Inside Them](https://focofringe.org/performances/the-forts-we-built-and-the-things-we-did-inside-them-2/): My work mostly involves creating sweeping dark ambient compositions that play heavily into the use of space both physically and in the air of the music. I blend active sound design with lulling drones and poetry, as well as an element of live video modulation - [Synergy - A Dance Performance Collaboration](https://focofringe.org/performances/synergy-a-dance-performance-collaboration-3/): NOCO artists come together in Synergy to present original dance works in a collective performance highlighting diverse dance styles that promote creative expression and artistic impact! - [Synergy - A Dance Performance Collaboration](https://focofringe.org/performances/synergy-a-dance-performance-collaboration-4/): NOCO artists come together in Synergy to present original dance works in a collective performance highlighting diverse dance styles that promote creative expression and artistic impact! - [Scam Likely!](https://focofringe.org/performances/scam-likely/): Don't hang up! A totally made up comedy show! With your help! - [PLASTERED Peter Pan](https://focofringe.org/performances/plastered-peter-pan/): The classic story of Peter Pan...with a DRUKEN twist. Each show one actor's name will be selected and they will have to perform the show drunk. All original music, drinking challenges, puppets, audience participation, and scripted sober actors trying to keep the show on the rails. - [PLASTERED Peter Pan](https://focofringe.org/performances/plastered-peter-pan-2/): The classic story of Peter Pan...with a DRUKEN twist. Each show one actor's name will be selected and they will have to perform the show drunk. All original music, drinking challenges, puppets, audience participation, and scripted sober actors trying to keep the show on the rails. - [PLASTERED Peter Pan](https://focofringe.org/performances/plastered-peter-pan-3/): The classic story of Peter Pan...with a DRUKEN twist. Each show one actor's name will be selected and they will have to perform the show drunk. All original music, drinking challenges, puppets, audience participation, and scripted sober actors trying to keep the show on the rails. - [Open Mic at the Fringe](https://focofringe.org/performances/open-mic-at-the-fringe/): The Fort Collins Fringe Festival bring together artists and the community to discover performance art that is bold, raw, and unexpected.Inspired by all the artists at the Preview Show? Want to jump on stage and be part of the magic?Sound Bar is hosting an Open Mic after the Fringe Preview Show for anyone who wants - [NIMBy, CO 80443](https://focofringe.org/performances/nimby-co-80443-2/): Howdy, I am a solo Noise Musician out of Summit County. My live act is largely improve using non musical sound gear to create sound. Its a playful mixture of spoken word and deconstructed music, intended to build and relieve tension around small town trauma. - [NIMBy, CO 80443](https://focofringe.org/performances/nimby-co-80443/): Howdy, I am a solo Noise Musician out of Summit County. My live act is largely improve using non musical sound gear to create sound. Its a playful mixture of spoken word and deconstructed music, intended to build and relieve tension around small town trauma. - [Neolithic Poetry](https://focofringe.org/performances/neolithic-poetry/): Local Author and 30 under 30 honoree, Jacob Sadler, takes us to a time before TikTok, TV, and spray-tanned tyrants, to when the spoken word was king and stories were told in verse.This is not your typical coffee-sipping, finger-snapping poetry. - [MONSTER STORY](https://focofringe.org/performances/monster-story/): "Have you checked to see if anything is hiding under your bed lately? You might find yourself swept away to the world of dreams and nightmares of **MONSTER STORY**. This aerial and dance spectacular will fully transport you to another world as we join our heroine and her boogieman sidekick on an epic, sensual, and comedic - [MONSTER STORY](https://focofringe.org/performances/monster-story-2/): "Have you checked to see if anything is hiding under your bed lately? You might find yourself swept away to the world of dreams and nightmares of **MONSTER STORY**. This aerial and dance spectacular will fully transport you to another world as we join our heroine and her boogieman sidekick on an epic, sensual, and comedic - [MONSTER STORY](https://focofringe.org/performances/monster-story-3/): "Have you checked to see if anything is hiding under your bed lately? You might find yourself swept away to the world of dreams and nightmares of **MONSTER STORY**. This aerial and dance spectacular will fully transport you to another world as we join our heroine and her boogieman sidekick on an epic, sensual, and comedic - [Learning Curves](https://focofringe.org/performances/learning-curves/): Can a perky, middle-aged rule-follower once and for all face the demons of her middle school alma mater before the building is razed to the ground?A girl named Jake grows up outside of Boston, loving school and singing in choir. But everything changes the year she turns twelve — she develops early, she’s spurned by - [Jack’s Box](https://focofringe.org/performances/jacks-box-3/): In 1971 Lonoke Arkansas, Vietnam vet Charlie Martin returns home to care for his dying dementia-ridden mother, Jane, who keeps mistaking him for her late abusive WW2 Veteran husband. As her memory fades, buried family trauma and war scars surface, leading to a bittersweet dance of healing and goodbye. - [Jack’s Box](https://focofringe.org/performances/jacks-box/): In 1971 Lonoke Arkansas, Vietnam vet Charlie Martin returns home to care for his dying dementia-ridden mother, Jane, who keeps mistaking him for her late abusive WW2 Veteran husband. As her memory fades, buried family trauma and war scars surface, leading to a bittersweet dance of healing and goodbye. - [Jack’s Box](https://focofringe.org/performances/jacks-box-2/): In 1971 Lonoke Arkansas, Vietnam vet Charlie Martin returns home to care for his dying dementia-ridden mother, Jane, who keeps mistaking him for her late abusive WW2 Veteran husband. As her memory fades, buried family trauma and war scars surface, leading to a bittersweet dance of healing and goodbye. - [I'm an Adult... Apparently](https://focofringe.org/performances/im-an-adult-apparently-2/): A 19-year-old’s journey through mental health, relationships, and the chaos of ‘adulting’ — still stuck in high school but officially an adult... apparently. - [I'm an Adult... Apparently](https://focofringe.org/performances/im-an-adult-apparently/): A 19-year-old’s journey through mental health, relationships, and the chaos of ‘adulting’ — still stuck in high school but officially an adult... apparently. - [I Can Almost Reach You](https://focofringe.org/performances/i-can-almost-reach-you/): “I Can Almost Reach You” takes two creatures to the shoreline between sleep and awake. This duet, co-choreographed by Grace Cooper and Margaret Brackey uses elements of dance, physical theater, and improvisation, to explore land ethics and territory in the more-than-human world. - [I Can Almost Reach You](https://focofringe.org/performances/i-can-almost-reach-you-2/): “I Can Almost Reach You” takes two creatures to the shoreline between sleep and awake. This duet, co-choreographed by Grace Cooper and Margaret Brackey uses elements of dance, physical theater, and improvisation, to explore land ethics and territory in the more-than-human world. - [Greatest Garage Sale Ever](https://focofringe.org/performances/greatest-garage-sale-ever/): You’re sure to find a unique treasure at this garage sale, loaded with a cast of hilarious characters as they share stories, songs, and bizarre experiences through videos, live monologues and musical performances. Wear your favorite garage sale outfit and fall in love with this outrageous community as they remind us who we are, what - [Greatest Garage Sale Ever](https://focofringe.org/performances/greatest-garage-sale-ever-2/): You’re sure to find a unique treasure at this garage sale, loaded with a cast of hilarious characters as they share stories, songs, and bizarre experiences through videos, live monologues and musical performances. Wear your favorite garage sale outfit and fall in love with this outrageous community as they remind us who we are, what - [Dreamer After Midnight](https://focofringe.org/performances/dreamer-after-midnight/): Work, work, and just work... Can this gay boy just catch a break?Let us introduce you to the life of a queer dreamer, navigating life, work, and dating, and his struggles to find his place in life.Our leading man is a Capricorn queen who tends to overwork himself and complain about it, yet he keeps - [Dreamer After Midnight](https://focofringe.org/performances/dreamer-after-midnight-2/): Work, work, and just work... Can this gay boy just catch a break?Let us introduce you to the life of a queer dreamer, navigating life, work, and dating, and his struggles to find his place in life.Our leading man is a Capricorn queen who tends to overwork himself and complain about it, yet he keeps - [Dreamer After Midnight](https://focofringe.org/performances/dreamer-after-midnight-3/): Work, work, and just work... Can this gay boy just catch a break?Let us introduce you to the life of a queer dreamer, navigating life, work, and dating, and his struggles to find his place in life.Our leading man is a Capricorn queen who tends to overwork himself and complain about it, yet he keeps - [Comedy Brewers](https://focofringe.org/performances/comedy-brewers-2/): The Comedy Brewers will present a long form improvised musical, based on audience suggestions. With premier musical and improvisational skills, the Comedy Brewers lay down a narrative story with musical elements, that will never be seen again. Join us! - [Comedy Brewers](https://focofringe.org/performances/comedy-brewers/): The Comedy Brewers will present a long form improvised musical, based on audience suggestions. With premier musical and improvisational skills, the Comedy Brewers lay down a narrative story with musical elements, that will never be seen again. Join us! - [Born and Raised on a Submarine](https://focofringe.org/performances/born-and-raised-on-a-submarine/): When is a song no longer a song? Strum the Clown learned the chords and lyrics to life’s greatest hits, but doesn’t know the timing or the tune. Is he uniquely different or just wrong? - [Born and Raised on a Submarine](https://focofringe.org/performances/born-and-raised-on-a-submarine-2/): When is a song no longer a song? Strum the Clown learned the chords and lyrics to life’s greatest hits, but doesn’t know the timing or the tune. Is he uniquely different or just wrong? - [Ankle Drag](https://focofringe.org/performances/ankle-drag-2/): A live music experience like you've never seen before! High energy stage stunts, dramatic performance art, and music you know and love from the 80s, 90s, and 2k. Ankle Drag will keep you on the edge of your seat while you sing along to every word. - [Ankle Drag](https://focofringe.org/performances/ankle-drag/): A live music experience like you've never seen before! High energy stage stunts, dramatic performance art, and music you know and love from the 80s, 90s, and 2k. Ankle Drag will keep you on the edge of your seat while you sing along to every word. - [The LuneAtics Lounge: the Creature Within](https://focofringe.org/performances/the-luneatics-lounge-the-creature-within-3/): LuneAtics Lounge merges intimacy with unease through live music, contemporary dance, and shadow-driven horror storytelling. Featuring a six-minute parachute choreography and new work, the salon-style experience blurs performer and witness, inviting audiences into the raw beginnings of creation. - [The LuneAtics Lounge: the Creature Within](https://focofringe.org/performances/the-luneatics-lounge-the-creature-within-4/): LuneAtics Lounge merges intimacy with unease through live music, contemporary dance, and shadow-driven horror storytelling. Featuring a six-minute parachute choreography and new work, the salon-style experience blurs performer and witness, inviting audiences into the raw beginnings of creation. - [Synergy - A Dance Performance Collaboration](https://focofringe.org/performances/synergy-a-dance-performance-collaboration/): NOCO artists come together in Synergy to present original dance works in a collective performance highlighting diverse dance styles that promote creative expression and artistic impact! - [Synergy - A Dance Performance Collaboration](https://focofringe.org/performances/synergy-a-dance-performance-collaboration-2/): NOCO artists come together in Synergy to present original dance works in a collective performance highlighting diverse dance styles that promote creative expression and artistic impact!