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Tara, on October 6, 2009, at 11:47 pm
Victoria is excited. Molly is studious.
But until that day, bake sales it is! We’ve been having semi-regular bake sales, featuring such delicious home-made fare such as raspberry cupcakes, chocolate cheerio chunk cookies, gluten-free brown sugar walnut muffins with cream cheese frosting, and chocolate fudge brownies. Hungry students, sweet-toothed staff, and curious passersby all [...]
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Tara, on September 14, 2009, at 6:05 pm
clowning around backstage at the Academy of Music
From political puppets to mustached musicians to daring Downside-Uppers, Happy Pill Circus No. 4 was a stomping, hooting, singing success! The Primate Fiasco alternated musical sets with Bread & Puppet’s theatrical puppet-tastic offerings, making for a varied and engaging Circus experience. Despite the lack of room [...]
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Tara, on August 30, 2009, at 12:28 pm
The Downside Up Circus’ public performance debut will be at The Happy Pill Circus #4, the latest in a series of wildly entertaining community-oriented music-and-more jamborees hosted by The Primate Fiasco in Northampton, MA. We will be doing our thing as some visual accompaniment for the band’s excellent psychedelic dixieland music, and infiltrating [...]
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Tara, on August 26, 2009, at 9:00 am
Attending the American Youth Circus Organization Festival really reinforced for me just what it is that I love about circus: the solidarity, the community, the positivity, the fun. I’d never seen so many circus people – wonderfully unorganized, endlessly enthusiastic, innovative, creative, friendly, skilled circus people – in one place. There were crazy tights and [...]
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Tara, on August 14, 2009, at 8:56 am
Victoria on the catcher's trapeze
It’s been a long, lovely summer of working 23ft in the air. I want to always be able to do what I love (thus, The Downside Up Circus)!
Although September is looming, there’s still much to be milked from August, especially in circus terms. Next week, after the conclusion of our [...]
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