Duo Scacciapensieri Portrait
  The duo met the first time in Rome at the Colombaioni circus school in 1990. Cornelia Clivio was a college teacher for Italian and French and Lorenz Matter studied Physics physics at the ETH in Zurich. Both had the same dream and they started practising together with much passion. They attended the Ecole Nationale du Cirque Fratellini as well as the theatre school Philippe Gaulier in Paris for a year. When they started to run out of money they returned to Switzerland and went on with autodidactic formation through five hours of practice each day and various stays abroad (e.g. 3 months at the circus school of Châlons-sur-Marne).
Directly at the beginning of their career the acrobatics performance was awarded with the "Little Prix Walo" in 1993; this made them continue despite the difficult circumstances. Thy won the the Special Price at the Monocycling World Championships in Minneapolis (USA) in 1994 with their monocycle performance. This launched the start booking for all stages of varietés, festivals and TV studios, home and abroad (Europe, USA, Canada, Japan, Arab. Emirates). They adapted their program according to the national languages where needed, something especially well estimated by the Japanese audience! In addition to the daily development of acrobatic skills, more and more stage performances were added (animation and children's program, handstand performance).

In 1999 they move into the loft in Dietlikon, where the duo can perfectly combine professional and private life. Instead of a classic opening, the première of the "Dietliker Varieté" took place with the magician Pat Perry. Upon this they realized the next dream of making up an evening-filling show for the theatre. "Stage TV" was created, a multimedia stage show with the juggler Romano Carrara and the news speaker Daniela Lager. Due to the lack of financial support the practice room was transformed into a TV studio under the direction of the video designer Ralph Wiedemeier. One could say all video scenes were produced "at home" and after two years of practice the première could be celebrated in front of a thrilled audience doing standing ovations at the Arosa humour festival in December 2001.
A short interruption of the tour came only in spring 2005, because of the offspring! The baby also represented motivation for Lorenz in developing an own solo performance (Ladderman - ladder turn).