Fabio "Imbalance" Fornero

TRAINING
He attended the Cesenatico Circus Academy from October 2000 to March 2001: 42 hours a week studying acrobatics, juggling, tightrope walking and unicycle.
In June 2001, he got some experience in mime and theatre-dance in Livorno.
He attended and got a diploma from the school of new circus “FLIC”, Turin, from October 2002 to June 2005, where he studied acrobatics, stretching, dance, juggling, tightrope walking, yoga, bodily expression, aerial disciplines, circus acting, physical strengthening and specific training. Through the school he had the following training experiences:
• Training in handling objects and acrobatic dance with the French new circus company “Rital Brocante”.
• Training in juggling with Iris Correo of “Cirque plume”.
• Training in tightrope walking with Andreas Hecker, “The Astronaut”.
• Training in balancing on a freestanding ladder with Milo Scotton, who holds a diploma from the "école nationale du cirque", Montreal.
• Training in acrobalance and hand to hand acrobatics with Jonny Torres, teacher at the Madrid circus school.
• Training in tightrope walking and handstands with Arian Miluca, teacher at the Brussels circus school “ESAC”.
• Training in experimental contemporary dance with Peter Jasko.
• Training in acrobatic Rock ‘n’ Roll.
• Training in juggling with the "Karamazov Brothers", American Circus Company.
• Participation in the “Gandini juggling project”, an intensive 10 days of training with a group from the school “Circus Space” from London, held at the festival of contemporary circus in Turin in September 2003.
• He attended Filip Radice’s "Atellier di teatro fisico", at P.A.U.T, Turin from October 2002 to January 2005.
• He has taken part in training on neutral masks, clowns and jokers with Franco Cardellino, who currently teaches at the circus school “Circ-Cuba”, Cuba.
• He has taken part in training in cabaret and writing comedy with Bruno Natalone.
• He has done a lot of training in dance, Argentinean Tango, vals and milonga with a number of teachers, including Pedro Monteleone, Pablo Veron, Osvaldo Angel Zotto, Marco Evola, Sebastian Arce, Andrea Missè, etc.

ARTISTIC EXPERIENCE
Fabio Fornero has performed at numerous shows, festivals of circus art and of street art, including:
• Sora Street Artist Festival, September 2001/August 2002.
• Orvieto International Street Artist Festival:"Le vie della fantasia", September 2001.
• Street Artist Festival "I fasti Verulani", Veroli (Frosinone), August 2002.
• Milan circus show "Saltimbanco Off", Torchiera, May 2004.
• San Remo Circus Festival, December 2005.
• "Circopaese" Festival, Civezza (Imperia), May 2005.
• Circus Festival, Senago (Milan) "Chi circo trova", June 2007.
• "L'acchiappastelle" Festival, Castagneto Carducci (Livorno), July 2007.
• Street Artist Festival "Polvere di stelle", Rosignano (Livorno), July 2007.
• Circus Festival “Saluserbe”, Saludecio (Pesaro and Urbino), May 2008.
• Mediaeval Festival, Brisighella (Ravenna) “Sulla via dei templari”, July 2008.
• Circus Festival, Fanano (Modena) “Stra-fanano”, July 2008.
• Circus Festival “teatro del mare”, Abruzzo, August 2008.

His performances and shows have made it to more than 150 squares all over Italy, including the islands, and also in nursery schools, theme parks, night clubs and recreation centres, theatres and numerous private events (Festa del Riso, Vercelli, September 1999/Viareggio Carnival 2000/Terni’s patron saint’s day celebrations – St Valentine from 1998 to 2001/Palio di Ribusa (Stilo), August 2001, Rolling Stones, Milan, January 2009, Venice Casino, August 2008, Montecarlo Sporting Club, October 2007 etc.).

Other appearances:
• "Micro-circo Acquarone-ferraris", Cesenatico as a juggler-clown in the summer of 2001.
• “Circo di Francia” for the Palermo Tutta event, 18 August 2002 – 14 September 2002.
• Juggling performance at the Claudio Baglioni concert at "S.Siro" Stadium, Milan, May 2003.
• Olympics Closing Ceremony at the "Torino 2006" stadium as a juggler of lit torches.
• Winner of the first prize and a gold disc in the circus contest "Alla corte di re Arduino", Cuorgnè, May 2006.
• Performance of Argentinean tango and balance on a freestanding ladder at the Colosseo Theatre, Turin as part of a charity show in aid of leukaemia research, May 2006.
• Travelling theatrical masked performance to sponsor the circus-theatre and dance show “Il colore bianco”, directed by Barberino Corsetti, February 2006.
• Circus performance as part of a show directed by Alessandro Serena, Venice Casino, August 2008.
• Circus and entertainment show as St. Vincent Casino (Aosta), September 2008.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
• In the summer of 2004, he worked with the micro-circus "Acquarone-Ferraris", Cesenatico, teaching children how to juggle.
• Every summer since 2005 he has been teaching circus acts to children in a Riding Centre in Tuscany, "Il Paretaio", bringing together show jumping and acrobatics, equilibrium, aerial disciplines and juggling.
• During the 2005/2006 academic year he worked as a teacher of unicycling at the association "Fumachenduma" as part of the project "Bimbocirco", Marene (Cuneo).
• During the 2006/2007 academic year he worked as a teacher of juggling, acrobatics and physical training at a circus workshop held at the elementary school “Santa Margherita”, Turin, through the new circus school “FLIC”.
• In 2006 and 2007, as a teacher of equilibrium at the new circus school “FLIC”, Turin, registered as a training school with FEDEC, the organisation which manages the most important European circus schools.
• Since the 2007/08 academic year, he has been teaching a circus and juggling course in Pagano (Cuneo), with elementary- and middle-school children.

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