Tara Jacob

Biography
Tara Jacob is made of unicorns crushed by a mortar and pestle and held together by Elmer's craft glue. Once her head was on fire. Another time she laughed so hard that milk squirted out your mother's nose. She's from New York, but soon hopes to be from the West Coast, where she and two friends will be establishing their own circus arts company, The Downside-Up Circus.

Halloween Pillow Fight

Community Involvement
Circus Folk Unite! founded F05, signer S06, F06, S07, F07, S08

Orientation Leader F06, S08, F09; Orientation Supervisor F07

The Omen, lackadaisical contributor and occasional entertainment at layout

Academics
(Note: Tara studied at Hampshire from Fall 2005-Spring 2008. She took a year's leave to live in London with family from Fall 2008-Spring 2009. She is now completing her final year at Hampshire and will graduate in Spring 2010.)

Div I - What Learning Goals? I Want to Make Things, Dammit

Div II - Performance &amp; Video &amp; Dance (Development, Direction, Production, and Interpretation)

Classes: Storytelling As Performance, Laban Movement Analysis, Media Production II, Mask-making &amp; Performance, Embodied Imagination, Take The Show On The Road, Performing Culture (Smith), Directing Performance for Film/Video/Installation, Video I, Little Course of Horros, History of World Cinema (Holyoke), Feminist Philosophy &amp; Performance-Based Media, Group Improvisation, Reading (With) Borges, Critical Psychology

Div III - Creating Circus: Imagination, Performance, and Interaction

A three-part project: 'Juggling the Budget,' a set of short political circus pieces, performed at the National Priorities Project's 2009 Anual Fall Party on October 24th, 2009. 'The Snowflake and The Rose,' a promenade circus fairy-tale show in FPH in early February, 2010. 'Interrobang,' a solo street circus piece, to be presented at the Spring Dance Informal on May 2, 2010.

She's also reading a lot of fascinating stuff about audience participation, theatre for young audiences, storytelling, circus history, postmodern dance, puppets, rituals, play therapy, creative drama, theatre of the oppressed, clowning, epic theatre, fairy tales, festive-revolutionary theatre, maskwork, and Happenings.