David Larible
David Larible ( born June 23, 1957 in Verona ) is an Italian clown.
Life
Family
The Larible family is originally from France. David Larible looks back on six generations of artists. There are family ties with many other European circus families. His great-grandfather Pierre Larible was an acrobat and dancer, grandfather clown. Laribles father is former trapeze artist and juggler Eugenio Larible who still teaches at the circus school of Verona. The mother Lucina Casartelli (1931-2003) was a child and circus artiste as her husband.
David Larible has three sisters: Eliana Paul, married to Bernhard Paul, Cinzia Larible - Gerard and the trapeze artist Vivien, married to Noè España of the Ikarier troupe Flying Españas.
Larible is married to the (still active at that time ) Mexican trapeze artist America Olvera Jimenez since 1982. The couple has two children - daughter Shirley (* 1989) and his son David Pierre ( * 1997). They want to be artists. Shirley occurs at Roncalli.
Childhood and youth
Larible grew up in Verona and in various circuses. His father Eugenio joined as a juggler and together with his uncle Renzo on the trapeze. In addition to his native Italian met David Larible fluent in French, Spanish, Portuguese, English and German.
In interviews, he likes to talk, he would have decided the age of eight, to become a clown. His father was not very happy about, he had wished that his son is trapeze artist like him. But eventually he would agree and would have promoted the son equally as required.
Career
In his childhood, David Larible is taught by his father Eugenio in acrobatics and juggling. In 1968, he starts with an education at the Music Conservatory in Verona. His first official appearance in the ring he graduated in 1973 at the Circus Medrano of his uncle. In a skating number, where he performs with his family.
In the 1970s, followed by engagements in the Swiss Circus Nock and French Circus Bouglione. As Laribles parents are involved in the early 1980s at Circus Krone, asks him the former Circus Director Frieda Sembach-Krone to step in for a clown. He takes advantage of the opportunity and builds the initially small number of continues.
Further engagements followed. After a three- year stint at the Italian Circus Cesar Togni Larible returned to Munich in the Circus Krone, where he remained until 1989. In this period the ZDF produced with him the TV series Circus - animals, clowns and acrobats ( inter alia presented by Freddy Quinn ). Some times you see him as part of the Circus of the Stars. In the 1980s he began to incorporate in his numbers with the audience - to this day remains one of his trademarks.
1989 leaves Larible Germany and comes via guest appearances in England and Mexico in 1991 to the largest and most famous circus in the USA - Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. From 1993 to 2005 he has there a permanent engagement and develops the main attraction. Time in the USA is characterized by hard work - Larible says he missed a day, even when he was sick, he went on. On the other hand, he developed in these years more trademarks, invents new numbers and perfected his performance. Together with the Ringling owner Kenneth Feld developed Larible Barnum 's Kaleidoscape, a new concept for the U.S. Circus.
Larible made a brief appearance in Seinfeld ( episode The Gymnast ) in 1994, as well as in the film Ocean's Eleven from 2001.
2005 Larible returned to Europe. Since 2006 has been engaged in Circus Roncalli, he finished the season in late 2012.
Services
David Larible occurs as a classic " harlequin " on. Thanks to their training, he has a wide repertoire as a dancer, singer, musician and juggler, also he was also with the Classical music, opera and ballet inspired. Among his specialties is to make contact directly with the audience and involve spectators in his actions belongs. As models called Larible Charlie Chaplin, Charlie Rivel and Grock. In his gestures and facial expressions he recalls in some sequences clearly Chaplin, but it unfolds but his own style and impresses with its charisma and presence in the ring. Also from Chaplin composed music he uses in the performances.