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Dimitri was an internationally acclaimed clown who trained in acting, acrobatics, tightrope walking, ballet and music as well as in pottery and sculpture in Verscio (district of Locarno) and Zurich. In Paris, he studied mime with Etienne Decroux and later with Marcel Marceau; he performed in two of his pantomime company's productions, Les matadors and Le petit cirque. In 1959, in Paris, he made his debut with the famous white clown, Louise Maïss, in the ring of the legendary Cirque Medrano... In 1971, in Verscio, together with his wife Gunda, he founded the Teatro Dimitri; in 1975, together with Richard Weber, the Scuola Teatro Dimitri, today, Accademia Dimitri; in 1978, the Compagnia Teatro Dimitri for which he wrote his first piece, Il clown è morto - evviva il clown (The clown is dead - long live the clown); and in 2000, together with Harald Szeemann, the Museo Comico... In 1984, Roy returned to Zurich, where, in 1987, he accepted a permanent position at the Schauspielhaus Zürich..

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