Join two of Hupstate’s most popular companies from previous years, Acting for Climate Montréal and Ithaca’s Fern Collective, with guest artist Goddess - for an incredible free outdoor show focusing on nature, the environment, and circus!

For all ages

“Cirque Us Stories” is a thoughtfully curated show that flips through the pages of our troupe’s favorite stories to bring you a touching, thrilling narrative about community and identity.

For all ages - kids tickets are free!

Join us for an evening of performances and connection for our community of artists, audiences, and the circus-curious! We encourage all artists, audiences, and circus fans to come out to party!

Suggested 18+ (we never quite know what will happen at the fundraiser!)

Cirque Kikasse is a breathtaking acrobatic show! An extraordinary mobile circus where trampoline, balances and juggling meet.

All ages

Direct from Sweden, Jay Gilligan curates a unique experience specifically created for the Hupstate Circus Festival in a rare U.S. appearance!

All ages

"I Think It Could Work" is a contemporary circus show.. Utilizing elements of acrobatics, theatre, and classic games, this show is an experiment in what happens when our lives are decided by chance and our fates are left for the audience to decide.

For all ages

Black Joy is a multi-disciplinary journey through Blackness.

This piece is a duet combining mask work, dance, theatre, poetry, immersive, acrobats, stilt walking, and aerial work in celebration of black lives in ancestry, future generations, and those walking the earth at this time.

Ages 10+

An evening with Troy and a trapeze. International Lover is the autobiographical tale of Troy Lingelbach's coming into one's self, sensuality, and gender told through aerial dance and performance art.

Ages 18+

DUSK / NIGHT / DAWN is an experimental aerial pole dance work created by Donna Carnow and Gina Alm. Combining aerial acrobatics, visual composition, and [pole] dance, they aim to share human experiences through super-human movement.

Ages 18+

This family friendly show is performed outside under a canopy and is free.

Seats are first come first served.

For all ages

This family friendly show is performed outside under a canopy and is free.

Seats are first come first served.

For all ages

This event is a double bill with two different shows

A Circus Journey" (Chile-Ecuador) is a captivating 30-minute solo performance suitable for all ages, presented as a ritual to honor nature and its elements.

Katherine Marino’s "Truth and Beauty is a one-woman clown spectacle that blends absurdity, existential themes, and misguided genius. Expect a journey through art and truth, with a possible cake and a guaranteed banana.

Ages 10+

This family friendly show is performed outside under a canopy and is free.

Seats are first come first served.

For all ages

After three years of studying aerial rope at Stockholm University of the Arts in Sweden, Ithaca native artist Simone Stevens presents the premiere of her newest work- a site specific circus performance crafted for the Cherry.

Ages 10+

Community School of Music and Arts

My Name is Tenacious invites the audience to a not-so-distant future to bear witness to the medicine that the end-times of our colonial world brings. Haunting and brave soundscapes, storytelling through movement, and the release that climate change ushers is honored with the creation of this sacred ritual space that touches concepts of wounds held within our identities, bodies, and the earth.

Press Bay Backlot - Free!

“Cirque Us Stories” is a new, thoughtfully curated show that flips through the pages of our troupe’s favorite stories to bring you a touching, thrilling narrative about community and identity. The show features aerialists, jugglers, acrobats, contortionists, clowns, and more, all ready to fly off the shelf and straight to you.

Cass Park Sports Fields

Stars Above is an outdoor family friendly circus show created by founders of Hideaway Circus, Josh & Lyndsay Aviner. Set to original music and reimagined cover songs, Stars Above is a modern take on the nostalgic small touring circuses from two hundred years ago. This year's production features brand new acts alongside fan favorites from last season.

Press Bay Backlot - Free!

Cirque Us hosts an evening of ice breakers, performances, and connection for our community under our little top tent! We encourage all artists, audiences, and circus fans to come out to play. Beer and non-alcoholic drinks will be on tap and ID’s will be checked at the entrance.

Cherry Artspace

The end is near but we feel fine !? We hope you clear your schedule to join your fellow workers for an evening of farewell and catharsis, that workplace ritual where you raise a glass to the best and worst memories at the company that writes all of our paychecks: Earth, the Planet, LLC.