Ivan received his actor’s training at the Teatro Laboratorio di Cesena under the direction of Franco Mescolini. As a student at l’Ecole de Mime Corporel Dramatique of Etienne Decroux, founding father of modern mime, he was invited by the master himself to his research projects as his assistant. During his 8 years with the Theatre de L’Ange Fou, the school/company directed by Steve Wasson and Corinne Soum, he participated in the training of students and in the performance and direction of many different productions. He has subsequently taught at different mime schools, including 10 years at l’Ecole Internationale de Mimodrame de Marcel Marceau. 

In 1988, he opened his own company which would become l’Atelier de Belleville, Ecole de Mime Corporel Dramatique, Centre for Training and Creation, where he assumed the pedagogical and artistic direction. With his Compagnie Commedia, he has directed many productions of which Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf and Bluebeard – Copie Conforme have toured France and abroad. More recently at the Theatre du Mouvement, with Claire Heggen and Yves Marc, he participated in the creation of productions such as Blanc sous le Masque, Faut-il croire le mime sur Parole (which has been performed 350 times in France and abroad) and in their latest performance, Je pense donc ça se voit. 

As Master of Dramatic Corporeal Mime, Ivan has also taught at l’Université Paris 8, l’École du Samovar, Studio Magenta, l’Ecole National de Cirque de Chaterllerault, the Conservatoire d’Art Dramatique de Cambrai, and as a visiting artist at the Musée du Louvre, le Grand Palais, le Musée d’Orsay and in dramatic demonstrations at the Centre National du Théâtre CNT in Paris, Brussels and at the Teatro ‘La Soffita’ in Italy.