Οne-Man Circus - David Dimitri

David Dimitri

David Dimitri is internationally acclaimed for his unique style of tight wire dancing.
Combining an education at the State Academy for Circus Arts in Budapest, with intensive dance studies at New York’s renowned Julliard School, David Dimitri has created virtuoso wire dances celebrated at circuses, arts festivals, and concert halls throughout the world, such as Canada’s Cirque du Soleil, New York’s Big Apple Circus, the Swiss National Circus Knie, and the Metropolitan Opera under the direction of Jean-Pierre Ponelle, to name a few.
In 2001, David Dimitri’s remarkable performing career took on an added dimension. With the invaluable assistance of his father, the famed Swiss clown Dimitri, he created his one man show ‘One-Man Circus’ a sparkling presentation of Nouveau Cirque, both intimate and compelling. It is performed in a touring circus tent designed and built specifically for the production.
David Dimitri has been a guest artist at prominent festivals such as Spoleto Festival USA in Charleston, South Carolina; Lincoln Center Festival New York; Just pour Rire, in Montreal, Jeux de Piste, Strasbourg, and the Avignon Festival. He has also performed on Broadway at the New Victory Theater.
David Dimitri is never far from the high wire. Most memorably, he christened the new Frankfurter Waldstadium with a spectacular crossing. He is now in the early planning stages for an extraordinary high wire walk crossing the entire city of Salzburg, Austria.

One-Man Circus

Just imagine an entire circus show performed by one man only! The man – ‘avec un talent fou’ (‘the talent of a mad man’ - Maurice Béjart) - attempts to demonstrate the most daring of all circus performances. ‘L’Homme Cirque’ is an innovative combination of acrobatics, music and dance, performed by David Dimitri, the ‘Lord of the Wire’ (New York Times).
Everything the audience sees is real. Several of his stunts are incredibly daring and could go wrong at anymoment, putting this Circus Man in some very precarious situations. Yet he is wonderfully skilled and manages to prevail, time and again.
The show is at times poetic, at times hilariously funny, but always incredibly gripping. You'll have a difficult time containing your nerves when David Dimitri performs the Human Canon Ball act, which involves catapulting himself from one end of the big top circus tent to the other, propelled by his self-made human canon.
Then, he gets up quietly on his inclined high wire and leaves the tent, balancing on a thin cable, exiting through the roof of the big top. He keeps walking higher and higher into the sky...
L’Homme Cirque was created in 2007. It has been touring in North Carolina, Holland, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Belgium, Slovenia, and most extensively, France.

22, 23, 25*, 26, 28, 29, 30/12 & 1, 2*, 4, 5, 6/1 | 19.00-20.30
LABYRINTH

On 25/12 & 2/1 will be held an additional show at 16.00-17.30.

For children and adults

Free Entrance
To ensure your participation in the event, you can either collect the corresponding pass from the Visitors Center or the SNFCC Lobby on December 15th from 09.00-22.00, or fill in the form that will be available here, from 22.00 on Thursday December 15.