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The Adelaide Fringe kicked off for 2017 on Saturday 18 February with Kildare Performing Arts students parading and twirling down North Terrace in the annual opening Fringe Parade. Marking the start of the Fringe Festival, the parade incorporated more than 80 luminous floats, combining fringe artists, local community groups, dancers, acrobats, circus performers and everything in between!

Tens of thousands of people lined the streets to watch the Fringe Parade as it made its way from King William Street to Frome Road. Coinciding with the Fringe event and adding to the vibrant atmosphere in the city was the Guns ‘n’ Roses concert at Adelaide Oval with 100,000 spectators streaming past the Fringe line-up on their way into the stadium.

Adelaide was certainly ‘alive’ with action and it was so nice to see our beautiful city glowing with every form of entertainment right in the heart of the CBD.

Kildare performers sparkled the crowds in a variety of different roles:

• Year 11/12 Dance students spun glowing umbrellas and danced their way through the parade as vintage style umbrella girls.
• Ms Hennig’s Drama students wheeled along pink illuminated trees creating a forest of pink and green (the 2017 Fringe colours).
• Year 9 Dance students weaved their way through the parade with giant floodlit box towers, hand painted by Adelaide artists.
• The fourth group of students (Senior Drama) glided large striped trees in a forest of pink, black, white and silver.
• The final group wheeled along blue illuminated trees creating a mythical forest with dancers zigzagging through the shimmering trees.

The 2017 Adelaide Fringe runs until March 19 and is just one of the components in the city’s Mad March Festival season, which also includes the Adelaide Festival, Adelaide Writer’s Week, WOMADelaide, and the Clipsal 500. With so much happening around town it’s fantastic to have our students ‘out and about’ experiencing the vibe of Adelaide in our busiest month.