Alexandre Sacha Pavlata
Co-Founder, Performance Director
& Featured Performer

Alexandre Sacha Pavlata, co-founder of Circus Flora, is a fifth-generation Czech circus artist, master aerialist and world-renown circus arts teacher. He grew up with his traveling circus family in a wooden circus wagon which criss-crossed Europe and North Africa presenting their famous unicycle and trampoline act under big tops all over the globe. Pavlata’s circus heritage goes back many generations on both sides. His mother, Hungarian-born Anna Dubsky, came from a long line of Risley Act performers (the acrobatic foot juggling of people), and his father, Czech-born Karl Pavlata, descended from a family of aerialists known for their great physical strength and versatility in the air. He taught at the Conservatoire National du Cirque in Paris from 1975-1979 and performed with the Bertini Unicycle Troupe with Cirque Bouglione, a French circus. As a member of the New York City-based Big Apple Circus in the 1980s, Pavlata performed the Cloud Swing and a world class Russian Barre act and was master teacher for the New York School of Circus Arts. He trained such stars as Andre Gower and Nicole Eggert for the 1987 television special “Circus of the Stars,” and was featured in the major motion picture “Big Top Pee Wee.” He consulted for Canada’s Cirque du Soleil to train new acts for the 1986 season. He trained the original Broadway cast of Barnum, as well as the cast of the national touring company, the Australian company and Michael Crawford’s London version of the show. Pavlata is the former director and founder of the Circus Flora School, and serves as master teacher for COCA, Center of Creative Arts in St. Louis. In 1998, Sacha joined the Flying Wallendas to help recreate the breathtaking and award-winning seven-person pyramid on the high wire. Sacha currently tours with wife Melinda in Cirque Passion performing for gala events worldwide.

Check out his websites!
Sacha’s St. Louis School of Circus Arts: www.stlouiscircus.com
Cirque Passion: www.cirquepassion.com
E-mail: sacha@cirquepassion.com