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This show belongs to the Adelaide Fringe 2026 season. This season is now over.

A single performer clad in all white contorts their arms and face under a hanging, blueish lightbulb. Semi-visible echoes of the performer's movements appear around them, warped and blurred.
Three vignettes of a single performer and a hanging lightbulb. Left: Arms emerge from a white t-shirt, hands creating a horned creature's head. Center: A bald performer is upside-down with their eyes bulging strangely, their hand casting a shadow across the ground. Right: A figure clasps their hands over a red-orange light.
Three vignettes of a single performer and a hanging lightbulb. Left: a silhouetted body, the blue light behind them. Center: A bald performer with their hands splayed wide, concentrating intensely on a purple bulb. Right: The performer with their head in their white shirt, an impression of their face pressing through the fabric, with a white light above.
Adelaide Fringe 2026

Only Bones – Daniel Nodder

Explore a microscopic universe in this intimate and mesmerising work of nonverbal physical theatre. Join a jelly-like solo performer as they pluck creatures from evolutionary history, pushing, bending and twisting the laws of physics. The ordinary becomes extraordinary and the strange becomes familiar.

★★★★ 1/2 "This is the type of show that you go to a fringe festival for." Arts Hub Melbourne

This work is the eleventh iteration of a series of solo shows grouped under The Only Bones Project. Each version must adhere to a simple set of rules:

  • One performer.
  • One light.
  • No text.
  • No set.
  • No props.
  • No narrative.
  • All within 1m2.

WINNER | Outstanding Solo Performance, NZ Fringe 2023
WINNER | Artist Pick Award, San Diego International Fringe 2024
WINNER | Most Innovative Show, Nelson Fringe 2025

Presented by: Daniel Nodder

Daniel (they/he) is an internationally award-winning physical performer, dancer and clown based in Te Whanganui-a-Tara / Wellington. A École Philippe Gaulier trained clown, they have received mentorship from Thom Monckton and have almost two decades of street dance experience. They specialize in subtle body isolation, twisty contortion and movement that is slapstick, silly and sometimes grotesque. They choreographed for Untitled Warehouse Project’s Entry: Encounter, an award-winning dance-rave-installation work, and was a headline talent performer in World of WearableArt’s 2025 show, RISE. Their award-winning solo work Only Bones – Daniel Nodder has been touring nationally and internationally since its debut in 2023, and has received awards in Aotearoa, Australia and the United States.
Theatre and Physical Theatre • Physical Theatre
International • SA Premiere
 
Fringe Fund Recipient
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Suitability & warnings

Content rating: G
Family friendly: Yes
Target audience: Junior Primary (5-7) | Primary (8-11) | Middle School (12-14) | High School (15-17)
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Accessibility

 
High visual content
 
Suitable for audiences who may not have a comprehensive understanding of the English language

Presenter

Presented by: Daniel Nodder

Daniel (they/he) is an internationally award-winning physical performer, dancer and clown based in Te Whanganui-a-Tara / Wellington. A École Philippe Gaulier trained clown, they have received mentorship from Thom Monckton and have almost two decades of street dance experience. They specialize in subtle body isolation, twisty contortion and movement that is slapstick, silly and sometimes grotesque. They choreographed for Untitled Warehouse Project’s Entry: Encounter, an award-winning dance-rave-installation work, and was a headline talent performer in World of WearableArt’s 2025 show, RISE. Their award-winning solo work Only Bones – Daniel Nodder has been touring nationally and internationally since its debut in 2023, and has received awards in Aotearoa, Australia and the United States.