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Kompani Paradiso latest production is “Toto and the Circus Director” combined with workshops/classes for staff and students for “Skapande Skola”, a national program for bringing more cultural activities into the school system.
Jan Unestam is an actor and a circus artist. In 1995 he was one of the founding members of the famous Swedish company “Cirkus Cirkör” and has through the years contributed to 11 of that company’s productions which has brought him all around the globe.
Jan has worked as an actor and a circus artist at most of the major theatre institutions in Sweden: Stockholms stadsteater, Göteborgs stadsteater, Göteborgsoperan, Malmö stadsteater, Östgötateatern, Helsingborgs stadsteater…
Magnus Jarlöv is a circus artist, a teacher and a comedian. He has founded many companies through the years, such as the jester and clown group “Jauvet”, “Clownen brinner” (“The clown is on fire!”), “Verbalista” and “Burnt Out Punks”.
Magnus has also been on the board for “Clowns Without Borders” and has worked around the world as its Project Manager. For a number of years, Magnus was instrumental in building Cirkus Cirkör’s function for people with disabilities.
Magnus has also performed at many major arenas around Scandinavia, such as the Stockholm Globe Arena and the famous Skansen Open Air Museum.
A performance for family and children filled with humour, interaction, magic and a lot of love! The Circus Manager is too cheap to pay his artists, so everybody, except Toto The Clown, leaves him. Toto does not care about money – he just wants to play and fool around. But the Circus Manager demands order …
A show filled with improvisation, comedy, slapstick and of course a lot of fire. French Artiste Jean-Baptiste is a perfectionist who really hates mistakes – which is particularly true if something goes wrong in his own show. He is then very quick to blame everyone else but himself. There is just one problem; Baptiste is …
A family show filled with comedy which is a tribute to the history of Circus, Varieté & Vaudeville! The clown duo Totto and Gunnar believe they can do everything a circus can offer: Fly out of a cannon, build a human pyramid (together with the audience), tame lions, balance 8 wine glasses on their heads, …