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First Night Photos

Tara — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 15:32:05 +0000

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 Flickr account!)

Happy New Year everyone! May 2010 be full of confetti, polka dots, bike rides, juggling balls, handstands, and attempting the impossible…

First Night gig covered in Hampshire College Family Newsletter

Tara — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 22:56:27 +0000

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, and Barbieri will perform a skills-based show full of acrobatic tricks, juggling and comedy at the Hynes Convention Center as part of the FedEx Family Festival. Now in its 34th year, First Night brings local and international artists to Boston to showcase their talents in over 200 performances and exhibitions for the public.

The rest of the article is here.

Video from the Happy Pill Circus!

Tara — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:18:17 +0000

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.

Our first photo shoot!

Molly — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 21:25:34 +0000

friends in high places..

Last weekend Corvus was visiting to help with circus events at Hampshire, thus, for the first time since the inception of Downside-Up and the INTERROBANG tour, the entire troupe was all together in one place! Hoorah! We took advantage of this fact by doing a photo shoot, the beautiful results of which you can see all over the interwebz.

We trouped into the Hampshire College woods on bikes with all the circus gear we could carry, and spent the morning cavorting in cornfields, climbing on each other, and eventually giving up on trying to look “serious.” Hardly any of the shots of us trying to look straightfaced and solemn in all our depression-era glory actually worked (photo below is one of the few exceptions), but we figured we look prettier while grinning and laughing anyway.

In-house photographer/designer Molly set up and took many of the shots, but a huge thanks to Martin who took charge of camera when Molly needed to be in the picture.

the INTERROBANG gang

Check out the rest of the rockin’ shots on flickr or facebook!