One of the world’s most southern arts communities has become an inspirational model for a fringe festival at the other end of the earth.
The collaboration started when three Swedish performers travelled to Melbourne for the 2002 Melbourne Fringe. Helena Bunker and Lina Karlmark, founders of Swedish performance arts group The Limaghe, brought their show No No Piruette to the Melbourne Fringe Festival. There they met another Swedish artist, Adam Potrykus, who lent a hand backstage, and together the team sold out shows and won Most Innovative Performance at the 2002 Melbourne Fringe Awards.
