CURRENT MISSION attending clown masterclass intensive with magic people in Granollers,Barcelona human sharing good food and music ABOUT ME I live and travel mostly in Australia with my partner and teenage daughter. My work is mainly doing traditional mask Italian comedy / clown doctor in hospitals/ or doing crazy cabaret gigs at music Festivals . We end up doing exciting and improbable things such as take several months off to travel in remote desert and subtropical Australia with a choir siging an eco- opera, create our own organic food forests, live in a bush community (7 years) on remote subtropical east coast and handbuild our own home, create links with neighbourhoods for live celebrations of people wherever we are .Both my partner Jo(anne) and I love stimulating conversation, slow food, new ideas and people that walk their talk. PHILOSOPHY live love laugh. compassion is a great companion. a sense of humour is a requirement for life.Humans are not machines they are much more mysterious than that.
Interested in Classical
Interested in Design
Fluent in English
Learning German
Why I'm on Couchsurfing
HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING just signed up COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE At present NIL!!!!!! but I have been a wwoof host on a susutainable community on the beach and subtropical jungle between Sydney and Brisbane
Music, Movies, and Books
I love good jamming. I play different musical instruments mainly accordion and ukulele sing . Groups;Nuova Compagnia di Canto Popolare/gypsy Underground Tom Waits/ any gutsy folk musician Books ; Italo calvino Movies anything with a good story no extreme Horror or excess of blood and guts -unless funny
One Amazing Thing I've Done
gone hunting dugong with tribal Aborigines in remote Aboriginal communities in far north Australia.
Teach, Learn, Share
I run workshops in Trad Italian mask Comedy - its very physical theatre with masks and a whole tradition. I live gardening aand have been inspired from the wholistic Permacultural approach to integrating food production with everyday life.
My Interests
Physical comedy clowning,Italian culture, new languages ( French, German Burmese) songs,slow food , sustainable urban design, learning about life from my beautiful partner and teenage daughter,reading , culture human history, Eastern and alternative philosophies
