First Night Photos

First Night Boston was a blast! The Princess, The Monster, and The Hero tumbled, juggled, fought, and made friends (twice!) for the entertainment of festive family revelers.

(More pictures soon on our [...]

Happy New Year!

Get your New Year celebration started early… come see us perform in the FedEx Family Festival, part of First Night Boston! We’ll be doing two short three-person shows at 2.15pm and 3.30pm at the Hynes Convention Center, room 302. (Buttons for admission to the entire event – BMX displays, music concerts, puppets, storytelling, dance, and [...]

First Night gig mentioned in Hampshire College Newsletter

A Downside-Up View of the World
By Taliesin Nyala 07F

Three Hampshire College students, Tara Jacob 05F, Victoria Quine 06F, and Lindsay Barbieri 06F are going to ring in the New Year by performing with their group, The Downside-Up Circus, at First Night, Boston’s annual citywide celebration of community through the arts.

For First Night, Jacob, Quine, [...]

First Night Boston

The Downside Up Circus will be performing as part of the FedEx Family Festival at First Night Boston 2010! We just confirmed that we’ll be doing two sets at the Hynes Convention Center in room 302 from 2:15-2:45pm and 3:45-4:15pm. First Night is a huge, well-extablished community arts event that showcases performers, visual artists, musicians, [...]

Video from the Happy Pill Circus!

For those of you who were unable to attend, here’s a clip from that excellent night, featuring Victoria, Lindsay, and Tara’s acrobatic act to the accompaniment of the Primate Fiasco.  The acro starts about 2 minutes in.

Happy happy happy!

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 [...]

Announcing: Our Performance Debut

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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