David Larible
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David Larible, as "Death Master"
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| Born |
June 23, 1957 Verona, Italy |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Known for | clown |
| Awards | Golden Clown at the International Circus Festival of Monte-Carlo (1999) |
| Website | www |
David Larible (born June 23, 1957 in Verona, Italy) is an Italian clown.
David Larible comes from six generations of artists. His family is originally from a place called La Rible in France. There are family ties with many European circus families. His great grandfather was Pierre Larible, an acrobat and dancer and his grandfather was also a clown. Larible's father, Eugenio Larible, is the former trapeze artist and juggler, who still teaches today at the circus school of Verona. Larible's mother, Lucina Casartelli (1931-2003) was a child circus artist and so was Lucina's father.
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 Icarians force Flying España.
In 1982, Larible married the (then active) Mexican-American trapeze artist America Olivera Jimenez. The couple have two children: daughter Shirley (1989) and son David Pierre (1997). The children want to be artists. Shirley will sometimes appear on Roncalli.
Larible grew up in Verona and in various circuses. His father Eugenio appeared as a juggler and together with his uncle Renzo on the trapeze. Besides his mother tongue Italian David Larible is fluent in French, Spanish, Portuguese, English and German.
In interviews, he likes to tell, he would have decided the age of eight, to be a clown. His father had not been very happy about it, he had wished that his son is a trapeze artist like him. But eventually he would agree and would have been the son equally funded as requested.
In his childhood, David Larible was taught acrobatics and juggling by his father Eugenio. In 1968, he began an apprenticeship with the Conservatory of Music in Verona. His first official appearance in the ring was in 1973 at the Circus Medrano. There, he performed with his family in a roller-skating number.
In the 1970s, followed by engagements in Switzerland, he was in the French Circus Circus Nock in Bouglione. As Laribles parents in the early 1980s Circus Krone are involved, it begs the then-director of Circus Frieda Sembach-Krone to step in for a clown. He exploited this opportunity and built the relatively small number still further.
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