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PARADISE: Belly of the Beast​

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• 5 Reasons to Fall In Love with Topsy Turvy & Yourself
  7/11/18: Write up in WearVersatile: a culture of confidence without gender binaries
   

• PARADISE: Belly of the Beast 
  6/4/18: Aiano Nakagawa's review of PARADISE: Belly of the Beast for the online magazine Art for Ourselves 
   

• 10 Reasons Why Paradise: Return to Aja Is the Epitome of God
  Vanessa Rochelle Lewis' essay for Boi Society
   

• Performance Artist-Turned-Singer Saturn Rising Rises Up From Fear
  9/12/17: KQED feature by Nastia Voynovskaya on Topsy-Turvy Queer Circus artist Saturn Jones including their role in PARADISE: Return to Aja
   

• Black Acrobats Center Queer Narratives at the Topsy-Turvy Queer Circus
  7/12/17: Coverage of PARADISE: Return to Aja artists on Afropunk.org 
   

• LGBTQIA Theaters Will Continue to Create Home Long After Pride
  7/06/17: Theater Bay Area article on alternative, queer performance groups in the SF Bay Area that "break ground in telling untold stories, reaching new audiences, and tackling head-on the thorniest issues of politics and social justice."
   

• A Circus Corrective to #TheatreSoWhite
  5/30/17: Lily Janiak's write up on PARADISE: Return to Aja for San Francisco Chronicle
   

• We Out Here: Black Presence and Collaboration as Survival
  3/27/17: Radio Valencia Interview with Topsy-Turvy Queer Circus artist Gabriel Christian
   

• Liminal Center Reviews PARADISE: A New Mythology
  6/6/16: "All of the cast were gorgeous, strong, creative queer people of color, doing circus acts and dance....Deities and demigods, counsels and temptations, hitchhiking glittery angels and bad-ass dance troupe tumblers that set the mood of the New Mythology, were set to the backdrop of video footage and made for a professional, beautiful and important performance. The show did something else innovative, which was to have a performer who told the narrative of the show in ASL, Brandon Kazen-Maddox. This show was solid."
   

• Black Femme Witches Brew Magazine Interview with India Davis
   5/21/16: "Clearly from your work and collectives you've created such as Topsy Turvy Queer Circus and Body Waves, you are very intentional about creating performance spaces for people of color and specifically black queer folks."
    

• Oakland’s Qulture Collective Features Queer Artist of Color India Davis - Lesbian.com
  2/17/16: Article on Topsy-Turvy Artistic Director India Davis' visual show at Qulture Collective
   

• Double Valentine: India Sky Davis and Debra Cleaver
  2/14/16: Radio Valencia Interview with Topsy-Turvy Artistic Director India Davis 
   

• Oakland Qulture Collective Explores Queer Black Mythology - TAGG Magazine
  2/12/16: Feature on Topsy-Turvy Artistic Director India Davis' visual show at Qulture Collective
   

• Our Town SF "Best of 2016" Photos
  Topsy-Turvy Queer Circus included in the Best of 2016 
   

• SF Fun Cheap Top Pick
  6/1/15: Topsy-Turvy's Majesty Ablaze show is one of this week's Top Pick for Theater & Performance 
   

• National Queer Arts Festival in Full, Fabulous Swing - 48hills.org
  6/1/15: "This adrenaline-inducing experience is the third installment of provocative physical theater from Topsy-Turvy, San Francisco’s first queer circus. Building upon the Bay Area’s rich history of infusing circus, burlesque, drag, and performing arts with radical politics, Topsy-Turvy continues to defy performance genres and excite imaginations with its diverse cast of queer, trans*, and gender-variant performers from across the country."
   

• The Bay Area Reporter's Out There List - "It's Tops"
  5/21/15: Topsy-Turvy Queer Circus' Artistic Director India Davis is quoted "As a queer circus, it's about more than just LGBTQ identity, it's about being subversive and affirming stories that fall outside of white male heteronormativity. There is a vibrant radical queer community and queer people of color community in the Bay Area, but in the circus world those stories aren't represented."