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It’s the final week of Adelaide Fringe and Festival, and Arts Garden brings together a powerful mix of artists exploring endurance, storytelling, and meaning.

🚴 Connor Delves joins us to talk about CADEL: Lungs on Legs: a high-intensity solo performance where he rides live on stage while telling the story of Cadel Evans’ Tour de France victory. We explore the discipline of endurance sport, the challenge of telling a “winner’s story”, and why this is such a uniquely Australian journey.

🎭 Casey Jay Andrews (Punchdrunk) shares insights into immersive theatre and her Designing Immersive Worlds workshop. We dive into how environment, design and storytelling can merge and how her latest work Feast of Words turns performance into a shared sensory experience through food, music and story.

📖 Gemma Parker discusses her memoir The Mother Is Restless and She Doesn’t Know Why blending philosophy, parenting and pandemic life into a deeply reflective exploration of nihilism, creativity and what it means to keep making work when conditions are far from perfect.

💥 Justine Martin closes the episode with an extraordinary story of resilience, from life-changing illness to building five creative businesses. We talk about “bouncing forward”, rejecting inspiration stereotypes, and the power of creativity as both healing and purpose.

Across sport, philosophy, theatre and lived experience, this episode asks:

👉 How do we create meaning when nothing feels certain?
👉 What does it take to keep going and keep creating?

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We are beyond the Womad long weekend and have two weeks of festival season left. On this week's Art's Garden we talk shower burlesque thoughts, boy band dating parodies, Portuguese folktronica and making a career in circus.

New Zealand performer Gigi Cartier joins the show to talk about Showgirl Roulette: a wild, improvised cabaret where a spinning wheel decides the lineup and random song selections push performers into freestyle chaos. We also discuss the craft of burlesque, the realities of nightlife performance, and how improvisation and spontaneity shape the show.

Portuguese artist Tereza shares the story behind Abraço (Embrace), a multilingual music project blending folk traditions, electronic dance music and influences from across Iberian, African and global cultures. Performing in five languages, Tereza explores identity, ancestry and connection through music.

From circus to wine tasting, Virago Circus producer Nicole Walker previews Flight, an immersive experience pairing aerial and circus performance with a curated wine flight at Beresford Estate.

We also hear from South Australian Circus Centre director Alex Charman about The Pack, a youth ensemble show exploring adolescence, trust and risk through acrobatics and aerial performance.

And musical theatre director Richard Carroll discusses the hilarious boyband parody Fuccbois: Live in Concert, written by Bridie Connell, which skewers modern dating culture through pitch-perfect pop pastiche.

Featuring interviews, music and Fringe previews from across Adelaide’s arts scene.

Featured artists and shows

• Gigi Cartier — Showgirl Roulette
• Tereza — Abraço (Embrace)
• Virago Circus — Flight
• South Australian Circus Centre — The Pack
• Fuccbois: Live in Concert

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From Brazilian futuristic dance to avant-garde magic, clown game shows, contemporary circus from Aotearoa, stand-up rebellion and the 50-year legacy of Friendly Street Poets – Episode 7 is packed

We talk emotional regulation through dance, colonial language hangovers, speed-sewn circus couture, migration and magic, hot girl comedy politics, and why poetry might matter more than political turmoil.

In This Episode

🎧 Talita Fontainha – TQ Productions

Tune In! The Frequency Within

Brazilian choreographer Talita Fontainha joins us to discuss her high-energy, futuristic dance-theatre show about emotional self-regulation. Inspired by lived experience with ADHD, occupational therapy frameworks, and Afro-Brazilian movement traditions, this family-friendly show remixes pop music, DJ decks and carnival costumes into a vibrant sensory journey.

• Using dance to teach emotional literacy
• Living as a migrant artist in Adelaide
• Brazilian cultural storytelling
• Making Fringe shows inclusive and accessible

🎪 The Dust Palace (Lizzie & Eve) – Haus of YOLO

Direct from Aotearoa/New Zealand, contemporary circus company The Dust Palace brings fast fashion chaos to Gluttony.

In Haus of YOLO, costumes are sewn live on stage while aerialists spin, glass is walked on, and Spanish Web circus unfolds under rave beats.

• Why New Zealand circus is delightfully weird
• “Number 8 wire” innovation culture
• Queer fashion satire meets cabaret
• What actually happens when you sew lycra at speed

🎩 Annanya George – I Want To Be The World’s Greatest Magician

Off-Broadway performer Annanya George unpacks what it means to reinvent magic as storytelling.

This is not a standard card trick show. It’s magic as memoir – blending illusion with migration, bureaucracy, identity and defiance.

• Why narrative magic is considered “avant-garde”
• Border agents demanding tricks at 3am
• The politics of illusion
• Breaking the rules of traditional magic culture

🌏 Vibhinna Ramdev – Why English?

A powerful physical theatre work examining linguistic colonisation in India.

• Growing up English-speaking in India
• Cultural identity and belonging
• Performing across Edinburgh and Adelaide
• The parallels between colonial histories in India and Australia

📖 Nigel Ford – Friendly Street Poets

Friendly Street celebrates 50 years as the largest and oldest poetry group in the Southern Hemisphere.

• The oral tradition of poetry
• Reading under the shadow of the Whitlam dismissal
• Why Friendly Street doesn’t censor language
• Three upcoming themed poetry nights
• The release of the expanded Chronicle (350+ pages)

A timely conversation about free speech, art and community.

🎤 Korinna Gouros – Comedy & “Hot Girl Retirement”

First-time Fringe performer Korinna Gouros reflects on strict Greek upbringing, queer awakening, and navigating comedy as an attractive woman in a male-dominated space.

• Social media validation
• “Hot girls shouldn’t do comedy”
• Rebel energy as creative fuel
• Doing two Fringe shows at once

🤡 Jeremiah Detto – Giuseppe’s Love Quest

Clowning meets vulnerability in this charming solo show about searching for love.

• Studying under Philippe Gaulier
• Rediscovering childlike play
• Fringe variety culture
• Supporting Gary Starr’s hit show

🎟 Adelaide Fringe runs until 22 March
📍 Shows at Gluttony, Courtyard of Curiosities, Tandanya, Woodville Town Hall & more
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