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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. |
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