Free street entertainment and performers for all the family
From Jan 28-Feb 28 2010, Dubai Festival City will host the Dubai Fringe Festival, which will feature free street entertainment and performers in key outdoor locations around the venue. Innovative street artists will be on hand to create a festival atmosphere, unlike anything that has been seen in Dubai before.
In the international spirit of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, performers of all nationalities will bring their unique and award-winning shows to the event. Hand picked by the festival organisers from the crème de la crème of international street performers, all the artists are renowned in their field and perform at street festivals all over the world.
 Pedro Tochas, the Sculptor Clown from Portugal, will be making the crowds laugh with his antics. Pedro creates a real-life silent movie before your eyes, with a tale of immortal love, heroes, villains, and of course balloon sculpting. A one-man equivalent of “Wallace and Gromit”, Pedro is renowned as one of the world’s best and most original street clowns. |
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 Magic Brian, from the USA, whose international award-winning show has been performed in festivals around the world for the last seven years, is a family-friendly, high-energy, interactive, comedy magic show with plenty of surprises, culminating in a record breaking escape from 40 feet of chain and a regulation straitjacket. |
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 Aussie acrobat, Reuben Dot Dot, will be taking time out from Cirque Du Soleil to perform his gravity and death defying act with acrobatic stunts and balances you need to see to believe. The show that has it all – humour, handstands and holding on for dear life! |
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 Primate from Venezuela will be bringing their theatrical percussion show, “Pan Pa’ Tim” to the festival. Music, rhythm, theatre and dance blend together on the stage to produce an original show overflowing with dynamism and energy. |
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 Sam Wills, New Zealand's foremost funny freak presents a show with more stunts, more mayhem and more stupidity than you can shake a juggler at. |
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 Benny B, one Australia's most creative and innovative circus performers - Benny B has won the hearts of audiences around the world through his unique combinations of high level circus skills and absurdity. |
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 Basketball Jones from New Zealand delivers crazy basketball mayhem featuring audience participation and amazing dribbling, spinning and juggling of up to five regulation-size basketballs at one time. Basketball Jones delights young and old with his infectious enthusiasm, physical comedy and unhealthy obsession with balls. |
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“An extraordinarily fast-paced and intricately choreographed percussive extravaganza.” – 4/5
– Three weeks edaily the Edinburgh Fringe Festival Fully Covered “A loud carnival of a show with energy, clown - like humour and some of the most skilful beatbox and body as instrument music you’re likely to see.” – The Stage Edinburgh
“A loud carnival of a show with energy, clown-like humour and some of the most skilful beatbox and body as instrument music you’re likely to see.” – The Stage Edinburgh
Running for the duration of the festival, a free exhibition of Lonely Planet’s bestselling collection of outrageous and unforgettable signs will also be on display at Festival City’s Marina Promenade. Curated by world traveller Doug Lansky and snapped by people from all over the world, this touring collection of side-splitting signs has already become a huge success, tickling over three million visitors in the city centres of Stockholm, Copenhagen, Gothenburg and at Edinburgh’s world famous Fringe Festival.
Schedule of Events