Even though crowds were way below expectation the performers gave their best, often with copious sweat. In my case I wasn't trying to cover the Fringe Festival, just the dance events Nicole (my partner) was in. So for the most part I shot pictures of her troupe (Nikoria Dancers) performing at the Crown Center Pavilion. I should mention that Nikoria Dancers was put together on the fly, so to speak. Nicole and her mother, Gloria, had the Nikoria Dancers years ago so the name was a tribute to he late mum. A request to perform at the Fringe grew from an individual performance to a troupe to occupy the Crown Center Pavilion space that a Lawrence group had been in last year. This year they moved to Just Off Broadway.
Links:
Overall: http://www.kcfringe.org
Reviews and Coverage from KC Stage: http://fringe.kcstage.comI also had a photo show running at the Blue Wolf Gallery (as featured artists for the month of July) so I spent some time at Blue Wolf, in particular to watch Annie Mayer present "On Tap." I wasn't able to get to her husband Michael's one-man show at the Incubator but did manage to see Kacico's friday-night presentation at the Arts Incubator. I also wanted to see the show by Reach because we had friends in that. I had to miss but Nicole got to see it. She loved it. Good dancing, she told me, and when that comes from a dancer, I should believe it, so I pass it on to you.
Links for show at Blue Wolf: pre-show page, opening night page, wall diagram of show (3.3 meg PDF shows pictures on the wall), database listing of photos in show.
So these pictures are from only three of the events at the Fringe but I thought you would like to see them. In any case, I just wanted to use some of these pictures for the site.
During this, on saturday, I was also working the Two-Steppin event over at the American Jazz Museum. So I found myself splitting my time between the Fringe and the Dancing Feet Festival - put on by Reel Images (Rodney Thompson and Stinson McClendan).
See Pictures from the Dancing Feet Festival here.
Annie Mayer
"On Tap"
At Blue Wolf Gallery Friday, Saturday and Sunday
Annie Mayer is Founder and Artistic Director of Metronome in New York City.
Mayer is a native of England and holds a masters in Architecture.
She performed at Tufts University in England and and for the last six years has been studying rhythmtap in New York City.
Her performance at Blue Wolf for the Fringe included audience participation in which audience members were handed various percussion instruments and coached in contributing music to which she danced. She tapped to a metronome and to recorded music.
Annie combined entertainment with education about tap.
Dancers on the left, Audience on the right - and on all the white seats in the loft area. 
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