Art on the Edge is a new contemporary art festival--a three day event--bringing to Raleigh the internationally recognized performing arts group Strange Fruit and widely acclaimed exhibition artists, Architects of Air. The festival will be both outside and inside of the Progress Energy Performing Arts Center. 

Levity III (above image), is a 10,000 sf installation by Architects of Air. This luminarium is described as a series of “labyrinthine tunnels and inspiring, spacious domes, (where) visitors move in a medium of saturated and subtle hues.” Architects of Air are based in England.

Strange fruit, from Austrailia, are somewhat reminescent of Cirque de Soleil in their approach to contemporary performance art: as they “fuse theatre, dance and circus.” There will be three shows on that Saturday, August 23, outside the Performing Arts Center on Lichtin Plaza.

Tickets: Arts Alive Raleigh or call 919.832.8699
Schedule HERE

Other components of the festival:

LOCAL BANDS:
The Cartridge Family
Birds of Avalon
The Hugenots
Violet Vector
The Lovely Lovelies

LOCAL THEATRE inside Fletcher Theatre
North Carolina Theatre: The Existents
Theatre in the Park: Give It Up, Turn It Loose
Burning Coal Theatre Company: Howie the Rookie
 

OTHER
El Gleno Grande a spoof of a circus equestrian act
Music for Earth and Sky by The Old Ceremony (in collaboration with an aerial dancer and the Tangophilia group)
 

Art on the Edge is the third of four new festivals of the Arts Alive on Lichtin Plaza series. Each festival is designed to showcase the richness and diversity of contemporary art and enliven the outdoor Lichtin Plaza at Raleigh’s beautiful Progress Energy Center for the Performing Arts.

 

The Capital Holiday Arts Celebration, the first festival in the series, was held November 24, 2007 and highlighted some of the Triangle’s premier holiday arts performances. Puppet Fusion, a celebration of the art of puppetry, took place March 6-7, 2008.

 

To culminate the series, a festival featuring the works of North Carolina’s visual arts and fine crafts community will be held October 18-19, 2008 on Lichtin Plaza. Artsplosure serves as the producer and organizer of Arts Alive on Lichtin Plaza.

Source: newraleigh.com