As always, there are big dreams in the pipelines, but for now Downside-Up is focusing on circus in the everyday.

Victoria has safely returned from her travels abroad, which you can read about here on her blog. She roamed all over Western Europe from August-December 2011, making friends as she went with the universal language of [...]

The Downside-Up Circus was happy to appear once again with the Primate Fiasco (our favorite jazzy rapscallions!) on Sunday September 12th. We painted little faces, boogied to great tunes, juggled and turned upside down, and made friends with the little blue puppet-monster MC.

During our last weekend in Port Townsend, we played with the locals at the Farmers Market on Saturday, then the kind folks at Madrona Mind-Body Institute welcomed us for an impromptu performance on the Fourth of July. We even did a bit of street performing down in town, rearranging our show acts for the pleasure [...]

Despite infrequent drizzle, the Fremont Solstice Parade was an uncontainable ambulatory party made up of alternative marching bands, naked bodypainted cyclists, unassociated costumed ‘free radicals’, elaborate, ridiculous, non-motorized floats, dancers, kids, and (of course) circus performers. The Seattle PI even caught us on camera. It was a thrilling (and exhausting) experience to join forces and [...]

Tara, Molly, and Victoria biked from Bothell to Bellingham in two days, covering about 85 miles! Our first real long-distance test of moving ourselves and our things from place to place entirely under our own pedal power, it was predictably a trial by fire. The tandem suffered a flat tire and the chain slipped a [...]