After graduating from school, Dimitri became an apprentice potter while studying music and theater.

It is a small performing arts college in the Swiss national higher education system.

In 1973, he was awarded the Grock prize, and appeared with New York's Big Apple Circus.

His act was motivated with his comic logic and playful spirit allowing him to incorporate a wide variety of circus skills.

He was a published author and songwriter, and operated a theater company with his wife Gunda, in Verscio, in the canton of Ticino in the Italian speaking part of Switzerland.