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The Pavement Stage ISBN 978-3-00-036461-7 is an exploration of outdoor performance in all of its different forms and provides an in depth overview to a world and lifestyle unlike any other.

From 1979 through to the present, David Cassel has travelled around the world to over 40 countries creating, presenting and experiencing a wide range of solo and ensemble street performances. His voyages have revealed some fascinating insight into the techniques and performance styles used by himself and some of the other personalities that have populated this extremely vital and satisfying form of public interaction and community development.

As street performance has grown in popularity internationally so has the civic policy that governs the public space in almost every city on the globe. While some cities celebrate the form through festival, others outlaw it. Why does street performance create such an extreme reaction, are street performers anarchists?

David Cassel has been working professionally as a writer, director, graphic artist and performer since 1978. He has spent his career traveling the world creating and presenting original inter disciplinary productions that have convergence and hybridization as their central creative priniciples. Each of his performance explorations bring together a multitude of elements including acrobalance technique, acrobatics, choreography, dance, improvisation, comedy, clown, character, story, narrative, acting technique and, most importantly, human interactivity.

In addition to a robust performance career, David has continuously created numerous educational curriculums for classes and workshops in a variety of related disciplines that have been presented through primary, secondary and tertiary school systems in Canada, Australia, Belgium, Holland, France, Germany and Poland.

While always maintaining a relationship with outdoor performance and spectacle, he has extensive experience as a Theatre Designer, Film Maker, Digital Specialist, Educator, Producer  and Artistic Leader. He has developed learning processes that integrate on line digital education with an intensive live physical theatre training program. His work is an example of the kind of Digital and Physical convergence that 21st century technology was created to facilitate.

He is the winner of the European Outdoor Performer of the Year (Rotterdam 1995) for his solo production of "Hotch's 3D TeeVee",  in addition to receiving numerous Australian University Comedy and Short Film awards. He has performed and taught in over 30 countries.