Instruction Team and Resources
The Circus Center in Kefar Yehoshua is fully equiped with training aperatus giving all the basics for learning Modern Circus Arts. Equipment includes a spring floor for tumbeling acrobatics, full size trampoline and small trampoline, a large variety of Ariel including trapeze, rope, spanish web, hoop, bamboo and tissue and lunge. Other equipment includes unicycles, juggling, stilts, walking balls, tight wire which is all housed in the large workspace of our center.
Principal Teachers
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David Berry: (Director of the Israel Circus School). Trained as a dancer in the Australian Ballet and has been developing Circus Arts training in Israel since 1992. Today considered one of the founding members of Modern Circus in Israel. Teaching clown and coreography to the students of ICS. He also creates the programs of activity from his many years of experince and connection in this field of work. | |
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Larisa Darnovsky: (Principle teacher of ICS) has a Master of Sport from Moscow State Academy of Sport, Russia. She has over 40 years of teaching experience and competition performance at the highest levels of acrobatic work. Larisa now dedicates herself to the students of I.C.S, teaching tumbling acrobatics and fitness. |
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| Natalia Golosarsky: A Graduate of the Moscow State Circus School, Natalia is a member of the senior teaching team and trains the students with static Trapeze and rope climbing. Natalia also gives instruction to beginners in acrobatics and is a great juggler.
Gregory Disiatnik: Worked 3 years 1995-1998, with Cirque Du Soleil after graduating and work for the Moscow State Circus. A member of the senior teaching staff, Gregory specializes in flying acrobatics and tumbeling.
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Honorary President
Mr. Arthur Vercoe Pedlar is one of Britain’s best loved clowns and has been a performer for over 50 years with some of the world’s greatest circuses. He was elected President of the World Clown Association in 2003/4 and is the first non-American to be inducted to the Clown Hall of Fame.
Arthur visited Israel in 2002 to see first hand the state of Circus Arts in this country. An intensive tour introduced him to many of the leading figures of Circus in Israel and a special relationship was formed between him and the Israel Circus School. A second visit to open the Circus Center came in May 2004 where Arthur Pedlar generously donated his performance to the community of Kefar Yehoshua and gave a series of workshops to students of the Israel Circus School. Mr. Pedlar has been instrumental in sponsoring our efforts to promote the Children’s Circus, to develop our Circus Center and to bring a real touch of Clowning professionalism to our community. Arthur is our “Guardian Angel” and we honor him with the title of Honorary President of the Israel Circus School.
