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Thursday, 31 July 2008 |
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Director
of S.F. School of Circus Arts/History of
Clowning began his involvement with the circus four decades ago, in his native France, as a clown at the legendary
Cirque Medrano in Paris. In 1974, as General Secretary of the Paris Cultural
Center, he participated with Alexis Gruss in the creation of France's first
professional circus school, and of "Le Cirque a l'Ancienne", which
eventually became the French National Circus.
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| New York's Big Apple Circus in 1983,
where he served as Associate Artistic Director for nineteen years. |
| A
circus and popular entertainment historian, he has published five books and
written many articles on these subjects both in Europe and the US. |
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Russian translation of his "Histoire Mondiale du Cirque" is the
official circus history textbook of both Moscow's Circus School and Theater Institute. |
| He is
also co-founder of the Festival Mondial du Cirque de Demain, one of the world's
two major circus arts competitions, which is held each winter in Paris.
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