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Welcomes
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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. |
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heyball production
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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
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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
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.....
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Happy Pill Sideshows of the past.. |
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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 |
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Hoop Master SASS
Hoola Hoop Dancer
www.myspace.com/hoopmastersass |
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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. |
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