Michele Cafaggi

Michele Cafaggi is a mime, a clown and a juggler, and has studied for many years to develop the giant bubbles technique theatrically.

He studied in Italy and in France with Jango Edwards, Philippe Gaulier, Marcel Marceau, Philippe Radice, at the Ecole Nationale du Cirque Fratellini, Quelli di Grock at the Arti Circensi School of Sala Fontana, and at the Lega Italiana di improvvisazione teatrale.

From 1993 he works as street artist, collaborating with youth aggregation centres, retirement homes, jails, schools, kindergartens and hospitals. He has taken part in the major theatre festivals in Italy and abroad.
As a juggler-mime he took part in some fashion shows, in Fabrizio de André’s “Anime Salve” Italian Tour (’97), and in sevaral italian TV series.

He received the Stregatto Prize with “Gli Eccentrici Dadarò” as best emerging company for youth theatre in 2004. In the same year he won the First Prize and the Audience’s Award at the International Street Theatre Festival in Ascona (CH) for the clownery show “Escalescion”.

He is the Dottor Sogno (Doctor Dream) in the children’s hospitals where the Theodora Onlus Foundations in active and he dedicates this show to all children he has met in the hospitals across the years.