Möbius

Cast

Abdeliazide Senhadji

acrobat, base

Abdeliazide Senhadji graduated in 1994 from the National Center for Circus Arts in Châlons-en-Champagne, France. Since then, he has participated in many projects. Among others: Vox populi vox by the Pierre Doussaint company, the 1996 founding of Mauvais Esprit company, Ningen and Frankenstein by Cirque Baroque, Bartleby by François Verret. In 2001, he created the shows Cabane, jeu du cirque and Rushs with l’ Ebauchoir and Ici ou Là companies. He worked for the Sublimes created by Hendrick Van der Zee. In 2004, he founded Cie XY and participated in its three collective creations Laissez-Porter (2005-2010), Le Grand C (2009-2013) and It’s not yet midnight… (2014- 2018). In those years he performed in the show Tangente of MPTA company (2005) with which he collaborated within Cie XY by creating together Utopistes (2009). In 2016, he collaborated on writing and staging the show Halka with the Acrobatic Group of Tangier. Since 1998, training and transmission have been at the heart of his concerns. Every year he teaches handstands as a guest speaker at the Lomme Circus School and he regularly conducts master classes and laboratories.

Airelle Caen

acrobat, flyer

After training at the National Circus Schools in Châtellerault and Lomme where she specializes in handstands, Airelle Caen joined « Le fardeau » for the show L’incident (2004). Co-founder of Cie XY that same year, she participates in all the collective creations of the company: Laissez-Porter (2005), Le Grand C (2009) and It is not yet midnight… (2014 ). Airelle also contributes to the work of MPTA Company with the in situ creations of Utopistes (2011). In 2016, she collaborated on writing and staging the show Halka with the Acrobatic Group of Tangier. She then participates as an outsider on O let me weep (2018) created by Les mains sales company. Today, alongside Cie XY, she plays in the show Strach, a fear song (2018) written by Théâtre d’Un Jour company.

Alejo Bianchi

acrobat, base

Alejo Bianchi began his career at the Circus School Espacio Zero (Argentina) where he discovered the acrobatic world (2007). In 2016, he joined the Regional Center for Circus Arts in a training for handstands with Mahmoud Louerai and Abdeliazide Senhadji. During this training, he co-founded BimBim Collective, with which they created the show Entre-temps (2018). After completing his training, he joined Cie XY for the creation of Möbius.

Andres Somoza

acrobat, flyer

Andres Somoza joined Lomme Circus School in 2009. He trained in an acrobatic quartet supervised by Abdeliazide Senhadji, Mahmoud Louertani and Maxim Pervakov. He finished his training in 2012 with a quartet show which he played a little over a year before joining Cie XY at the creation start of the show It is not yet midnight….

Antoine Thirion

acrobat, base

After studying at the National Center for Circus Arts in duet with Aurore Liotard, Antoine Thirion joined  Nouveaux Nez Circus (2005). With his duo, he collaborates with various cabarets and circuses (Roncalli, GOP …). Their show was awarded with a silver medal at the World Circus Festival of Tomorrow and with a gold medal at the Moscow Nikulin Festival (2009). The same year, he joined Cie XY for the collective creation of Le Grand C and further on It is not yet midnight… (2014) and Les Voyages (2018). In 2010, he collaborates with Théâtre d’Un Jour company for the show L’enfant qui…. Antoine also contributes to the work of MPTA company during the in situ creation of Utopistes.

Arnau Povedano

acrobat, base

Arnau Povedano Bardolet begins his circus career in Rogelio Rivel Barcelona Preparatory School. He then continued his training at the Superior School for Circus Arts in Brussels, where he founded a collective  specialized on handstands, a practice he would deepen a few years later at the Regional Center for Circus Arts. During this training, he co-founded BimBim Collective, with which they created the show Entre-temps (2018). After completing his training, he joined the Cie XY for the creation of Möbius.

Belar San Vicente

acrobat, flyer

She begins her artistic career at the Oglio Rivel Circus School in Barcelona, then joined the Flic Circus School in Turin (Italy). A few years later, after discovering handstands and getting keen on this discipline, she joined as a flyer the Regional Center for Circus Arts in Lomme (France). That is when she meets Oded, Paula, Alejo and Arnau. During 3 years they deepen the discipline of handstands and gain from the mix of cultures and languages, which emanates from BimBim collective. After completing her training in 2018, she joined Cie XY with her friends for the creation of Möbius.

Florian Sontowski

acrobat, base

Florian Sontowsky began his circus career at the Circus Projekt Waldoni where he stayed for 10 years and participated in various events, productions and cabaret shows. He then trained in static and dynamic handstands with Chris Murawski et Daniel Mathez. At the same time, thanks to a technical internship, he joins the Regional Center for Circus Arts in Lomme with Mahmoud Louertani and Abdel Senhadji and later the Amiens Circus School with Reynald Valleron. In 2016, he joined Cie XY for a replacement in the show It is not yet midnight… Then he participates within the company in a creation for public space named Les Voyages (Marseille, Nablus / La Villette). In 2017 he performed in the baroque opera The Royal Ballet of the Night, which has been reconstructed by Sébastien Daucé, accompanied by his « Ensemble Correspondance » and directed by Francesca Lattuada (Palace of Versailles, Opéra Dijon, Théâtre de Caen).

Gwendal Beylier

acrobat, flyer

After completing his training at Lomme Circus School, Gwendal Beylier joined Pipototal company and  Noctambules company. In 2009 he founded « Les Magnificos » company with David Coll Povedano. Specialized in handstands, he joined Cie XY in 2012 for the creation of the show It is not yet midnight….

Hamza Benlabied

acrobat, base

Born in Morocco in 1994, he discovered acrobatics at the age of 13 at the beach, like any other Moroccan acrobat. He then joined vocational training at the Shemsy National Circus School (2012/2015 class), where he specialized in Chinese masts at the end of his third year. This is where he meets his future flyer Maélie Palomo with whom he will join the preparatory school in Rosny-sous-bois in the hand to hand training section, then the National Center for Circus Arts in Chalons-en-Champagne (CNAC) from which he graduated in 2018.

Löric Fouchereau

acrobat, flyer

Adventure, play, balance and acrobatics are the pillars of his discovery of body and space. After a self-learning experience he joined the National Center for Circus Arts in Chalons-en-Champagne (CNAC) in a hand to hand collective. The end of his training (2016) allows him to work for two years as a duet in different circles and artistic worlds. Thanks to various meetings, as he is longing for finding the essence of his collective work, he joined Cie XY for the creation of Möbius.

Maélie Palomo

acrobat, flyer

Originaire de Suisse, Maélie s’initie à l’acrobatie enseignée par Cindy Mossion, formée à l’Académie Fratellini, dans une école amateur de sa région. En 2013, elle intègre la première année de la formation professionnelle à l’Ecole de Cirque de Québéc. A défaut de porteur et désirant se rapprocher du cirque contemporain, elle intègre l’année préparatoire de l’Ecole Nationale des Arts du Cirque de Rosny-sous-Bois en 2014. Elle rencontre Hamza Benlabied en décembre 2015 et ils décident de former un duo pour entrer au Centre National des Arts du Cirque ou ils sont diplômés en 2018. En 2017, elle travaille avec la compagnie Joli Vyan dans « Imbalance » en Angleterre. Ils intègrent la Compagnie XY pour la nouvelle création « Möbius » en septembre 2018.

Mikis Minier-Matsakis

acrobat, base

Even before completing his training in 2004 at the Regional Center for Circus Arts in Lomme, Mikis founded with his partner Anne de Buck « Le Fardeau » company with which he created several shows: The Burden (Gold medalist at the World Circus Festival of Tomorrow 2007), The Incident, 1986 and The Machine. That same year, he co-founded Cie XY and participated in the creation of Laissez-Porter (2005), Le Grand C (2009) and Les Voyages (2018). He also joined It is not yet midnight… for a replacement.

Oded Avinathan

acrobat, base

Oded started his circus career in 2012 at the Israel Sandciel Circus School. In 2015 he joined the Circus School in Lomme where he performed his training in an acrobatic quintet, the BimBim collective, coached by Mahmoud Louertani and Abdeliazide Senhadji. He completed his training in 2018 and joined Cie XY for the creation of Möbius.

Paula Wittib

acrobat, flyer

Originally from Argentina she joins the Circus School in Lomme in 2015. There she performs her training in an acrobatic quintet, the BimBim collective, coached by Mahmoud Louertani and Abdeliazide Senhadji. After completing her training in 2018, she joined with her friends Cie XY for the creation of Möbius.

Peter Freeman

acrobat, base

Or often called Petermann… A graduate from the National Center for Circus Arts. At the age of 28, his dream of becoming a dream bearer had finally come true. The following year, Peter and his flyer Loric Fouchereau participated in various shows, from small cabarets to large productions in London. At the end of 2017, they were offered to join Cie XY for creating the new show Möbius. In his spare time, Peterman enjoys being outdoors, biking or climbing.

Seppe Van Looveren

acrobat, base

Seppe joined Cie XY for the creation of « Möbius ».

Tuk Frederiksen

acrobat, base

A base who began his career at the AFUK Circus School in Denmark and then at the Lido – Toulouse Center for Circus Arts. He worked with his partner for ten years, created their own shows and then joined various companies all over Europe in the fields of circus, opera, dance and theater. Now he embarked on a new journey with Cie XY and the creation of Möbius.

Yamil Falvella

acrobat, base

Born in Argentina, he first trained at La Arena Circus School in Buenos Aires before joining the Regional Center for Circus Arts in Lomme where he specialized in handstands with Mahmoud Louertani and Abdeliazide Senhadji between 2013 and 2016. In 2017 he joined Cie XY for a replacement in the show It’s not yet midnight… and since then continues the adventure with the creation of Möbius.

Rachid Ouramdane

dancer, choreographer, artistic collaboration

After graduating from the National Center for Contemporary Dance in Angers in 1992, Rachid Ouramdane embarked as a choreographer and performer on a career which led him to work in France and abroad with Meg Stuart, Emmanuelle Huynh, Odile Duboc, Christian Rizzo, Herve Robbe, Alain Buffard, Julie Nioche…

Rachid Ouramdane has produced complex shows questioning representation frameworks which he presented on the international stage. He has long given a prominent place to the danced portrait. He cultivates the art of encounter, whose sensitive experience requires criticism regarding all kinds of prejudices. His work has been based for a while on a meticulous collection of testimonies, as he collaborates with film makers and authors, integrating video devices in order to explore the sphere of the intimate.

Thus he attempts to contribute to social debates through choreographic pieces that develop a poetics of testimony. Today, he directs his research towards a choreographic writing based on principles of accumulation for large ensembles, as in Tout autour for the 24 dancers of the Lyon Ballet Opera or Tenir le temps for 16 dancers created at the Montpellier Danse Festival in 2015. He is regularly invited by companies in France and abroad: Superstars (2006), Borscheviks… a true story… (2010) for the dancers of the Russian company Migrazia and Looking back (2011) for Candoco Dance Company (UK).

In parallel with his creation projects, Rachid Ouramdane develops works based on transmission and exchange in France and abroad. Rachid Ouramdane was associate artist at Bonlieu – Annecy National Scene from 2005 to 2015 and at Théâtre de la Ville-Paris from 2010 to 2015. Since 2016, Rachid Ouramdane has led the CCN2- Grenoble National Choreographic Center alongside Yoann Bourgeois.

Jonathan Fitoussi

musician, composer, artistic collaboration

Born in 1978, Jonathan Fitoussi is a passionate composer about minimalist and contemporary musical forms. He worked for the National Audiovisual Institute (INA) and the Musical Research Group (GRM). He particularly likes modular and analog synthesizers, supported in his projects by composers like Morton Subotnick or Suzanne Ciani. Composer of original soundtracks for TV and radio (Canal +, France 5, Radio France …), he signed in 2015 with Clemens Hourrière an album noticed Fitoussi Five steps (2015) at VERSATILE RECORDS. In 2016 he composed a soundtrack for the film Le ciel attendra by Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar. In 2017 he is invited to take part in the 57th Venice Biennial in the installation created by Xavier Veilhan for the French Pavilion. In 2018 he wrote the music for Breath of life, a Xavier Roux’s film. Composer in numerous musical bands with Clemens Hourrière (Model Alpha or AIR’s JB Dunckel), he is also co-founder of the “Transversales” label.

Clemens Hourrière

musician, composer, artistic collaboration

Clemens Hourrière is a producer, a sound engineer and a musician. After studying music, he will work at IRCAM and INA and will then create an independent label: Q-TAPE RECORDS. Composer and member of different bands, his eclectic art leads him into many styles such as indie rock, garage rock, abstract hip-hop, psych rock, minimalism and electronic music and tour in Europe with the Turzi Band. This music fan collects vinyl records and instruments from different countries. He builds or fixes them by himself. He recorded with Jonathan Fitoussi Five steps (2015) at VERSATILE RECORDS then recently, a track for the compilation French ambiance music vol 1 named Le chant des dunes.

Nordine Allal

acrobatic collaboration

Nordine Allal

Vincent Millet

lighting director, technical director

Having graduated from ENSATT (rue Blanche) in 1989, Vincent creates light for many shows including: Lost illusions by the Bolshoi Theater with Alexey Ratmanski; Prince Hodong, Wedding and The Unkept Girl by the Korean National Ballet; Letter to a friend from Africa by Karine Saporta; Giselle of the Ballets du Louvre; We have the machines by the Navarre Dogs; Our Spring by Das Plateau; Troilus and Cressida and The plow and the stars by Bernard Sobel, The night just before the forests by Eric Castex; The Marriage of Figaro, The Bear and The Marriage Proposal by Philippe Berling… He also works with musicians, such as Antoine Herve, Florence Pelly, Chantal Galliana and Parabellum as well as for circus performances such as Le Grand C by Cie XY.

Nadia Léon

costume design

Trained at the school of the Parisian Couture Union Chamber and gratuated from costume art and handicraft, she intervenes since about twenty years in the fields of theater, dance and opera. She has worked with the National Center for Circus Arts, with Vincent Colin, Hubert Japelle, Thierry Collet, Béatrice Massin, Daniel Larieu, Paco Decina, Bruno Bayen, Alain Mollot and the companies Trafic de style, Choream and Théâtre du Grabuge.

Antoine Billaud

production director

With a degree in political science and law, he began his career as an advisor for street theater and circus arts at HorsLesMurs (2000-2006) before founding Rouge Production with Peggy Donck the same year, an adventure that has continued to this day. He joined Compagnie XY in 2008 when Le Grand C was in gestation, and he hasn’t left since.

Peggy Donck

production director

After legal training in human rights and business management, Peggy first encountered the circus in 2000 with the Collective AOC, where she was the company’s administrator for five years. After a brief post as the general secretary at HorsLesMurs, she joined the company Un loup pour l’homme in 2005 and shortly thereafter, Compagnie XY for Le Grand C. It was clear after that tour that she would continue with the company for its next creation.