"Ultimately, the Wonderfruit Story for me is all about a visionary founder, Pete, who created a place for the Solar Stage as the heart of the festival, a prominent place in a cultural panoply, fulfilling its role of renewal and change.

Year after year they believed I could do better such that over the course of our first five years we added parts and assembled them in substantially different ways, culminating in the wild return from COVID-19 and our original five-story tower.

Seeing that the many of the original frame parts were limiting our options, Wonderfruit invested in a whole new base structure extending more to the sides and not so thrill inducingly upward, creating the double structure, box seating version that we have today.

New this year is more colourful fabric, shade and streamers, celebrating cycles of life."

"Wonderfruit’s legendary sunrise and sunset stage comes together this year with great thanks to Gregg Fleishman, whose creations are regular highlights at Burning Man. The stage is in fact a modified version of the playa’s Otic Stage. Using his signature panel system and over 2,137 modular wood parts, the structure will be the focal point for sunrise and sunset at the festival. Besides the pre-planning that went into it, it took 48 hours and 9 people to construct. But in fact the actual planning started about 40 years ago in geometry class, which when given the 3D element, Fleishman calls “The Lost Triangle of Pythagorus”. Watch the video below to see Fleishman talk about the mathematics involved in the design of the stage and it also serves as a little reminder of why high school math is so important (never thought you’d need math at the rave, did you?)." - Mix Mag Asia (2017)