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Active Ingredients:
BS Dance Contest, Juggling, Hoop Master Sass, audience generated art, puppets, magic, community.

This product is to aid in the recovery of smiling, toe tapping, laughing, dancing, yelling, misbehaving, and socializing.

Side affects may include good mood and inspiration.

a heyball production


The Happy Pill Circus is an event hosted by the Primate Fiasco in conjunction with the community. This is not a typical concert, but more of a party which encourages the audience to participate in physical art found around the room as well as performance art on the dance floor and stage. The goal of the evening is, with the help of the audience, a fun and positive atmosphere where everyone comes together to create something that can only happen once, and can't be experienced via television.

Aside from the Primate Fiasco's explosions of Psychedelic Dixieland, the event is also packed with sideshows ranging from your typical circus routines such as juggling and contortion, to the unusual pleasures like Hula Hoops and audience generated art. The Happy Pill Circus is also the home of the BS DANCE CONTEST where audience members invent odd dance moves and win cheeky prizes.

The Happy Pill Circus is intended to be launched every few months or so. In the future, it will take to the road. Come be part of it. It literally won't be the same without you.

NEXT CIRCUS - #4 - Sept 13 - Academy of Music


Don't look for tickets. It's free. Just get there on time.

Happy Pill Circus 4 collaborator links:
Bread & Puppet
Hot Day at the Zoo
Downside Up Circus
Hoop Master Sass

THIS TIME IT'S A FREE SHOW! Thanks to
www.freepress.net

Academy of Music - s MA

This is the fourth and final show of the
free concert series involving a grant from

IT AINT GONNA PRODUCE ITSELF..
A free show would be impossible without the help of our community. Let it be known, we turn down as many sponsors as are used because we only work with locally owned, or somehow socially responsible organizations. Any logo seen in the midst of a Primate Fiasco project is bound to be a great example of the more competent and useful part of the free market that we live in. Please applaud along as you read our thank yous.....

 

RIVER VALLEY MARKET - feeding the cast and crew backstage. River Valley Market is a food Co-op which means they are owned by their members (The Primate Fiasco is a member). They use local farms and local business, keeping our economy strong.

 

VALLEY ADVOCATE - an example of the type of media that Free Press and The Primate Fiasco hope to keep. They have covered our free concerts and our circus from the beginning. Naturally, they will be instrumental in letting the public know about this event.

 

KMD SOUND - This is the sound company in charge of bringing the product from the stage to the audience. There were many good ones to choose from and we have experience with all of them. KMD was our first choice.

 

Happy Pill Army - Inevitably, there will be an army of people volunteering their time to set up, run the stage, hang flyers, clean up, etc. We don't know who this is yet, but we know good people will come forward when the time comes. And we'll see them at the after party as well.

Typical Happy Pill Sideshows of the past..

CIRCUS FOLK UNITE

The lovable creatures from Hampshire bring you Burlesque dance, stilts, juggling, poi, contortion, acrobatics, and things we wont even mention.

www.myspace.com/circusfolkunite

Hoop Master SASS

Hoola Hoop Dancer

www.myspace.com/hoopmastersass

Audience Generated Art

The audience will be welcome to add their ideas to collaborative works of art found around the room.

For example: The refrigerator door with special Happy Pill vocabulary, or Fiasco Cam (a series of disposable cameras hanging from strings around the dance floor). There's usually facepaint donated by the Guild Art Center on Main St Northampton to allow audience members to become circus clowns. Etc.



More about THE PRIMATE FIASCO - click here

 

 

PHOTOS OF PAST CIRCUS

HAPPY PILL CIRCUS 1 - Iron Horse Music Hall - Feb 10 2007

HAPPY PILL CIRCUS 2 - Iron Horse Music Hall - May 11 2007

HAPPY PILL CIRCUS 3 - HALLAWEEN - Pearl St - Oct 27 2007