Three emerging Colombian-Australian artists — Guillermo Robayo Gómez, Dica and Daniela Zambrano — reach back through smoke, song and ancestry in Dancing with the Roots, an intimate and experimental exploration of identity and belonging at Sydney Fringe 2026. Kate Gaul finds a heartfelt, ambitious work whose youth is its great strength — a must-see.

Eugene Blazejowski Walsh reviews Holy Order of the Confusion Sound, an evening of ‘ceremonial folk punk’ from Veronica Lacuna, Sophie Moore, and Chris Stabback in the basement of the Petersham Bowling Club for Sydney Fringe 2026 — a three-hour tightrope walk between spectacular songwriting and theatrical gimmickry, strongest when those two elements remain in balance.