Elder Kloster has many talents: he is a clown, juggler, mime and puppeteer. It's been years traveling the world, searching for "laughter in the darkness of the soul". There are children, adults and elderly people, from the most diverse social classes, treated to relief and fun in every laugh.
He started on stage first as stand-up comedy, in 2009. In 2012, he began studying the art of clowning and the circus, creating his own clown, the "Legendary Tchonsky" - specializing in juggling with a cigar box. In 2015 he graduated from ESLIPA (Escola Livre de Palhaços), located at the National Circus School in Rio de Janeiro. He grew professionally inspired by Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton and Rowan Atkinson, and more recently with performances by Leonid Yengibarov. His shows and acts have toured hundreds of cities, building partnerships with other clowns and circus companies, recently being the winner of best clown in the Italian "Smile Clown" competition, in Naples. In 2021 and 2022, he was the Brazilian representative at World Circus Day, promoted by the Fédération Mondiale du Cirque - Monaco/France. In 2023, he realized his dream of attending the 45th Annual International Monte-Carlo Circus Festival, in addition to taking a week-long immersion in the centuries-old commedia dell'arte in Italy. Later that year, after 14 months of training, he graduated in physical theater and mime with Luis Louis - a direct disciple of Desmond Jones.
As a puppeteer, one day he fell in love with the renowned professor Sergio Mercurio (El titiritero de Banfield), and began to study the art of manipulating puppets in 2012. He researched and was inspired by other puppeteers and shows, and without being restricted to just one technique created his own way: with puppets made of paper, plaster or wood, sometimes without a body or face, his presentations are (in a playful way) an invitation to the imagination, leading the public to create in their imagination the scene and the feeling that the puppet transmits. Elder has in his repertoire a workshop, six shows and a lambe-lambe (reference to a camera obscura photo box, it is a genuinely Brazilian theatrical style that uses animated forms to occupy a minimal scenic space formed by a miniature stage confined in a box of reduced dimensions), recognized in dozens of performances at festivals throughout Brazil, Latin America, Europe and the Middle East. Recently awarded at QuintaTheatreFest in Rhodes/Greece, International Festival of Children's Theaters in Subotica/Serbia and Al-Husseini Al-Sagheer Festival for Children's Theater in Karbala/Iraq.
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