You may or may not know that many members of The Downside-Up Circus share a certain geek-factor: last weekend, Lindsay, Kristian, Molly, Tara, and Victoria all went to Boston for Arisia, a science fiction/fantasy convention. We went to panels and discussions on topics ranging from fairy tale history to tips for entrepreneurs. There was a [...]
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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 [...] 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 [...] I spent yesterday evening with my brother ‘talking shop’ over my new bike. And by talking shop, I mean he helped me fix a few things, gave me a brief verbal tutorial, bike anatomy lesson, and then we leaned against the cars in the garage talking while I idly spun the front wheel. I mentioned how [...] A Downside-Up View of the World 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, [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] 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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