FUNAMBOLIKA 2008

FUNAMBOLIKA 2008
Pescara, Italy, July 5-8, 2007

Funambolika 2008 is the 2ND edition of the summer circus arts festival focused on clowns, and conceived by Raffaele De Ritis.

It takes places in Pescara, in the Abruzzo region of Italy, in the open-air Teatro D’Annunzio on the Adriatic beach. This is the same 2000-seats arena where it take places Pescara Jazz, one of the oldest and most prestigious jazz festivals in the world (www.pescarajazz.com), that is the same organizing company of Funambolika.

After presenting last year two great clown icons (Jango Edwards, David Larible), FUNAMBOLIKA will show this year again three original evenings:


July 5 - DUEL (Paul Staicu, piano – Laurent Cirade, cello), the comedy musical revelation of last year’s Edimburgh and Avignon Festival;

July 7- PETER SHUB, the legendary clown with his solo theatre show “Nice Night for an Evening”;

July 8 - GRAN GALA DU CIRQUE, an evening of international circus acts (from Monte Carlo Festival, Kiev School, Moscow Circus, Cirque du Soleil appearances) including among others juggler Boul, acrobat Maxim Popazov, contorsionist-swimmer Aqua and others, around a special guest star: ANDREI JIGALOV, the king of contemporary russian clowns.


Pescara is close!

With a beautiful seaside, lovely hills, the best wine and excellent fish.
The theatre and hotels are just 10 minutes drive from Aereoporto d’Abruzzo (www.abruzzo-airport.it ), regularly connected with: London, New York, Paris, Frankfurt, Munchen, Bruxelles, Barcelona, Stockolm, Toronto, Kiev, Rome, Milan, etc.
The Rome Fiumicino airport is 2 hours drive.
Organization: info@pescarajazz.com tel. (39) 085-6920057 – 4221463
Artistic direction: rderitis@hotmail.com

Organizing committee website: www. entemanifestazionipescaresi.it
Funambolika blog: www.funambolika.blogspot.com