DFC Online Classes Winter 2021

Posted on September 6, 2020 by Marci

Happy 2021!
DFC is now offering a variety of weekly online circus arts classes, lessons, and events for youth and adults! You can find all the info by joining the Diamond Family Circus Online FB group, or just send us a message via our contact form. Hope to see you in a Zoom room soon, because circus is for everyBODY!

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What do you do?

Posted on October 1, 2014 by Andrea

We are available to perform, teach, and consult on circus & creative movement in the Boston area, as well as nationally and internationally.

DFC’s Co-founders Marci & Marisa, along with Ringmaster J.T., were featured performers with Granite State Circus, the first woman-founded and run tented circus in the U.S.  We are now back to booking our popular professional performers’ acts & shows, offering visiting artist workshops and consultations, and supporting our youth performance troupe. Diamond Family Circus is approved for fee support through the MassHousing TAP Resident Programs  & New England States Touring (NEST) artist grants, increasing accessibility to high quality programming for public housing & non-profit organizations.

Sampling of what’s available from Diamond Family Circus for a range of indoor and outdoor settings, along with our popular, community-building circus learning workshops:

lyra bridge

Marci on lyra

  • Cabaret-style comedic-romantic partner acrobatics; family-focused partner acrobatics; comedic contortion; and a range of beautiful professional aerial acts from tango lyra and lyrical trapeze to rock, broadway and techno…as well as varied ambient and roving circus entertainment.

Marisa Trevor and Doug

Diamond Family Circus Youth Troupe supports Brandeis-ACS Relay for Life 2011

  • Youth performance troupe: roving performers, balloon twisting, juggling of all types, aerial acts, acrobatics and more!

The Diamonds are available for work in films under SAG agreements (including student films). They can also provide workshops in conjunction with performances. Visit our contact page to inquire!

Hector and Lola

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How can I learn to do that?

Posted on September 30, 2014 by Andrea

Marci Contortion

Film set photo of Marci by Rob Eckle and Kyle Daly

Currently, we offer group classes, special workshops, or private lessons for a range of ages and abilities online, and provide instruction and consultation in collaboration with theaters, film, universities, schools, NGOs,  dance & gymnastic studios, camps, etc.  Details and references are available upon request.

DFC Director Marci Diamond, M.P.A., AEA, SAG-AFTRA, is an experienced instructor-coach in: functional flexibility, core strength, and conditioning; basic contortion; solo and duo acrobatics; lyra (aerial hoop); solo and duo trapeze; performance development and improvement; and other circus arts. She works with each individual’s strengths, goals, and needs, nurturing a safe learning environment for serious fun, discovery, and progress.

Marci’s teacher training includes completion of the Advanced Trapeze Teacher Training at the New England Center for Circus Arts, Circus Arts Therapy Training at Carrie Heller’s Circus Arts Institute, Circus Yoga- Ring One, and prior certification as a high school teacher. She is an active participant in the American Youth Circus Organization, including the AYCO Educators’ Conferences and national and regional festivals. She often teaches with her daughter Marisa Diamond, B.F.A., www.marisadiamond.com, also a professional performer and coach, who co-founded DFC.

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DFC thanks our online program partners and YOU

Posted on March 25, 2020 by Marci

Thank you to all the helpers out there, from heroic grocery store & health care workers, to all who are staying home, practicing physical distancing, & wearing masks, to protect the most vulnerable among us.

Thank you to our online partners, who are making it possible for us to offer a range of fun, live, online programs to help you enjoy circus arts and keep moving at home, including our FREE Living Room Circus programs via our awesome partners like CILC https://www.cilc.org/community , Connected North http://www.connectednorth.org/athome , Brandeis Living Room Festival, Wheelock Family Theater Friday Spotlight Series, and more!

And thank you to Gravity Alternative Movement Online for hosting our weekly online classes from March – Aug. 2020. You can now find weekly classes and more in our “Diamond Family Circus Online” FB group, or contact us for more information about classes, private lessons, workshops for online classrooms, and special events like virtual or outdoor, masked birthday parties. For more online circus resources and classes, please follow Diamond Family Circus on Instagram and Facebook, and also check out the pages for American Youth Circus Organizations and DIY Circus Lab for Kids

Like many of you, we are grappling with the sudden loss of virtually all family income, and more importantly, we are now grieving the loss of friends. We send all our love and support to those of you experiencing losses. Here are some resources for supporting wellness during these times:

Donations to help support Diamond Family Circus during this challenging time are welcome and appreciated via Venmo @Marci-diamond.

Wishing you safety and wellness, and with you. Please reach out with any questions, and we will see you down the road.






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Reagle Music Theater presents DFC’s EPIC! on 12/29/19 at 2pm

Posted on November 20, 2019 by Marci

Reagle Music Theater of Greater Boston presents Diamond Family Circus’ premiere of EPIC! on 12/29/19 at 2pm. Tickets to make GREAT holiday gifts for all ages, and are available now at: https://www.reaglemusictheatre.org/epic

Looking for high quality family entertainment in the Waltham / Boston area between Christmas and New Year’s Eve this holiday season? Our aerialists , acrobats , jugglers , clowns , and more will delight all ages at this Greek mythology inspired circus arts show , featuring our extended professional performance family from across North America. We are proud to partner with the 1000+ seat professional non-profit Reagle Music Theater to share the circus joy with you this winter. Hope to see you there!

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DFC provides movement consultation for theater and film

Posted on November 19, 2018 by Marci

Did you know we also provide movement coaching, aerial consultation, and intimacy choreography for theater companies, films, and other arts programs?

For example, Marci was recently the Movement Director for Moonbox Production’s “Lost at Sea” rep production of Twelfth Night and Shipwrecked! at the Boston Center for the Arts, and Movement and Intimacy Director at Tufts University (Much Ado About Nothing, Jihad Jones and The Kalashnikov Babes, We’re Here) and Merrimack College (The Moors). Marisa www.marisadiamond.com served as choreographer for the recent circus-themed “Queens and Clowns” production in Michigan, and our Ringmaster J.T. Turner www.jtturner.org is also a professional fight choreographer for theater and film.

Please contact us to discuss services and rates.

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DFC expands access via NEST grants and MassHousing TAP Resident Programs!

Posted on November 19, 2018 by Marci

Diamond Family Circus LOVES providing circus arts performances and workshops with public housing residents of all ages, all over Massachusetts, though MassHousing’s TAP Resident Programs. Now, we can also offer expanded access to our programs to a wide range of non-profit organizations throughout New England, as an approved NEST program! Fee support for Diamond Family Circus may be available to nonprofit organizations through the New England States Touring (NEST) program of the New England Foundation for the Arts. Please visit www.nefa.org for more information and contact us directly to discuss…and we hope to see you down the road!

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Yoga pizza party with Kate McKinnon shows circus is alive and well!

Posted on January 19, 2018 by Marci

Circus is alive and well in the U.S., and one sign is that more DFC alums than ever have been performing circus arts in the ring and on stage in the past year (e.g., CirqueUs, Pippin national tour, Circus Harmony, Circus Smirkus, among others), and another is that circus arts are being featured more and more in major motion picture productions and commercials. In case you missed it, here is the hilariously generous Kate McKinnon trying to share her pizza with a contorting Marci Diamond : https://www.ispot.tv/ad/A7yr/mastercard-masterpass-yoga

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