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Compilation of images from this year's Fringe Round-Up

2021 Fringe Season Round-up

Tuesday, August 17, 2021
The 2021 Philadelphia Fringe Festival is here, and Pig Iron School is proud to see how many students, alums, faculty, and friends are involved this year, making and creating and sharing with us all of their hard work. Three Sisters - Hank Curry Alums Bellisant Corcoran-Mathe ('21) and Leslie Miller...

A Note from Quinn Bauriedel, School Director

Thursday, October 8, 2020
Fall 2020 Dear performing artist, This is a time of impossible problems. Even the greatest scout on earth might struggle to untie the knot we, in the performing arts community, are in right now. And yet, with impossible problems comes innovations, artistic shape-shifting, and new pathways toward...
A collage of images from Being/With: Home.

2020 Fringe Season Round-up

Tuesday, September 15, 2020
The 2020 Philadelphia Fringe and Free Fringe festivals are in full swing, and Pig Iron School students, alums, faculty, and friends are creating and sharing work that responds to and meets the challenges of the current moment. Here's a round-up of some of the art they're making. Being/With: Home -...
An abstract illustration of chaos theory

Pandemonium: Creative Responses to Lockdown

Monday, June 29, 2020
Confronted by the restrictions of lockdown due to COVID-19, the fearless students of the Class of 2020 quickly tackled the challenge of making work digitally and outside our studios, creating dance films, artistic exchanges, Zoom dramas, and more. They shared these works in public showings held via...
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Pig Iron on the Edge: Border Signs are a Poetic Dare

Wednesday, April 3, 2019
Sohrab Haghverdi is among the UArts/MFA students who traveled to the Southern border in March of 2019 to observe the edges of America and the people that live their lives there. Below, he describes confronting the physical border and in turn, his own fear. At some point in the last year I decided to...