Davor Peršić
From the capital city of Croatia to this year’s Street Musicians Festival arrives Davor Peršić, an original entertainer, passionate circussologist and experienced street musician. This graduate of sociology (Sociological aspects of dance and the contribution to its affirmation the title of his thesis) inspiration for dance as his life’s motto, but also his calling, found as still only a child, from when his creative work with sound, wood and various other kinds of unusual musical instruments begins, continuing to this very day.
Peršić from 1999 actively performs as a clown and juggler, and then as a street musician as well. In the meantime, as a crown to all his pastimes, he built his own instrument – a modified contrabass, to which he at times adds various other sound components. In that self-initiated game of rhythms, bass lines and the occasional singing, as he says, he finds complete joy. Peršić thus becomes – under the stage name Magister Ludi Man Band (Magister Crazy Man Band) – the one-man band musician who leaves no one feeling unsatisfied.
The master of musical-comic street performances, Davor Peršić, as we found out, gives well attended and interesting art workshops, through which he transfers to his pupils his vast knowledge from the fields of juggling, clowning, stage movement, pantomime, equilibrism and street playing. Peršić performed once already on the Street Musicians Festival, in 2013, when he was much much more than just a street attraction on various points across the old core of Novi Sad.
