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ABOUT

Flemish and Spanish, Argentinean and Franco-Sicilian, I was born in France. I grew up without clear origins, all cultures combined, between France, Spain and Belgium. At the age of five I started gymnastics, trampoline, and a few pair acrobatics basics, then later I added contemporary and urban dance, at the Trampoline 2000 association in the Pyrénées-Orientales, France. Miyazaki's films invaded my imagination. I read mangas.

2012. At 14, I traded my native region for Châtellerault, in the Poitou-Charentes region, where I attended a "BAC Littéraire" with a heavy option in Circus Arts, a formation offered by the Ecole Nationale de Cirque de Châtellerault and the Lycée Marcelin Berthelot. I specialized in aerial straps, under the guidance of Sandrine Berthet Jeanvoine. Miyazaki's films and other 90’s animes continued to contaminate my imagination, more subtly, in the background. I graduated in 2015, with a baccalaureate in my pocket, crossed the ocean and continued my training in Montréal (Quebec) at the National Circus School. I still read manga.

There I discovered the German wheel, and made it my specialty. I found the floor again, the freedom to move, a familiar ground and language. I dived. The wheel became a being in its own right, a living, playful, violent and capricious entity. Surfing on his swings, training becomes a game. Under the guidance of Adrian Martinez and Éric Deschênes, I developped a technique and a style; a unique vocabulary. I don't read mangas anymore.

In Montreal, I also discover performance art and more generally the contemporary North American scene (Peter James, Benoît Lachambre, Nicolas Cantin, Manuel Roque, Dana Michel), with forms that speak to and nourish me. I see in these pieces facets of the human being, dissected, raw, in their simplest aspect; in all their beauty, hardness and humility. Paradoxes and evidence that strike me and contaminate me. In the cocoon of the school, under the watchful eye of Peter James, I create pieces where the manga influence inherited from my youth, this brutality of the human being, and a deep softness are fought; universes, current and futuristic, which always have a thorn of ancient history stuck in their back.

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