Rumpus Room News

  • Need Some Space? We’ve got it!

    Need Some Space? We’ve got it!

    While current public health orders have put our classes, performances and public events on pause, we still have a beautiful building that we’d love to …

  • Custom Circus Classes for COVID Times

    Custom Circus Classes for COVID Times

    We believe that being physically active, engaging our imaginations and laughing are critical parts of staying healthy and sane these days. We’ve thought long and …

  • Physically Distanced Circus Camps for 2021

    Physically Distanced Circus Camps for 2021

    This, our 20th season of circus camps, will be another rather different one. Last year, we made some changes to comply with specific guidance from …

  • It’s Virtually a Parade!

    It’s Virtually a Parade!

    During these strange, necessary days of physical distancing, we are really MISSING the smiles and laughter of our Wild Rumpus gang! So we are inviting …

  • The Wild Rumpus World Circus RESOURCE GUIDE

    Here is the resource guide written by Polly Craig to accompany our “Wild Rumpus WORLD Circus; Stilts, Masks, Multiculturalism” project.  In May of 2018, a …

  • The Wild Rumpus Circus Scholarship Fund!

    Our scholarship fund was initiated in 2013, as a way to make the workshops, classes and camps we offer more accessible to all. Most of …

  • Mazo Circus Bus!

    Mazo Circus Bus!

    The Circus Bus has been an integral part of our camp for the past few summers. The bus picks up/drops off passengers at Demetral Park, …

  • Juniper’s Blog

    My Adventures as a Circus Camp Counselor I recently spent three weeks as a circus camp counselor for a small circus day camp in Mazomanie, …

  • 2015 Rumpus Review: 14 things we’re grateful for in our 14th year.

    2015 Rumpus Review: 14 things we’re grateful for in our 14th year.

    Our 12th annual dead-of-winter festival of contact improvisation, known as Mazopalooza, was a particularly satisfying one; somehow simpler than most, and working with guest artist …

  • Mars visits the Global Stilt Congress

    Mars visits the Global Stilt Congress

    In early October, I headed to the Arizona desert to attend an event where I knew not a soul, at a place that I’d been …

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