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May 24, 2025by mediationWORK-IN-PROGRESS

circusnext 2025 Laureates

The 2025 circusnext Laureates have finally been announced ! To discover on 12 & 13 June at the Théâtre de la Cité internationale (Paris)

Jef Everaert & Marica Marinoni (France)

In Difference

David Martin (Sweden)

Metaphoric Objects

Cie Inéluctable (France)

CE(UX) QUI RESTE(NT)

Cie Dissociée (France)

GHETTO

Jef Everaert & Marica Marinoni, In Difference

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Cyr wheel · Premiere 2025

Two performers, two Cyr wheels, two different styles: Jef is pacifist and indecisive, Marica is confident and confrontational. Guided by their contrasts, the two acrobats weave a poetic and physical dialogue where conflict and complicity converge. In Difference is a journey towards a gradual break with the wheel’s traditional uses, to the point of bringing it to life.

Marica Marinoni, born in Milan in 1995, and Jef Everaert, born in Leuven in 1999, are circus artists specializing in the Cyr wheel. Both studied at the FLIC school in Turin and the CNAC in France, they developed unique approaches: Marica explores fluid, acrobatic movement, while Jef draws on his juggling background for manipulative innovation.

David Martin, Metaphoric Objects

© Christophe Raynaud de Lage

Juggling · Premiere 2026

Metaphoric Objects presents a series of artistic experiments in object manipulation, aimed at developing a poetic language. Led by a versatile juggler, this research manifests in evolving performances that depart from conventional structures, adapting to the specific context of each appearance and collection.

David Martin was born in Parisian region. After studying visual and media arts, he trained at the Plus petit cirque du monde in Bagneux and then at Doch in Stockholm.

Cie Inéluctable (Marius Fouilland & Aimé Rauzier), CE(UX) QUI RESTE(NT)

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Floor acrobatics, puppetry · Premiere 2026

Bound by a common loss, Marius Fouilland and Aimé Rauzier come together in a piece that questions our relationship with death and brings it into the present moment. Guided by the language of acrobatics, they give a place to the absent: puppets and humans merge in a dialogue between two worlds. Jumping, rising, tilting, falling as two, standing as four.

Marius Fouilland and Aimé Rauzier trained in floor acrobatics at the Académie Fratellini. Aimé Rauzier works as a performer in L’absolu (Cie les choses de rien) and Foraine (Cie Bal). Marius Fouilland worked as a performer with the Samuel Mathieu company for the creation of Saltarines. He founded the company Inéluctable in 2022.

Cie Dissociée (Marcelo Nunes), GHETTO

Static trapeze, fakir, clown · Premiere 2026

GHETTO depicts addiction as a silent predator, trapping its protagonist in a vicious cycle where fleeting pleasure inevitably dissolves into despair. Yet within this stark contrast between illusion and reality, a ray of hope gradually surfaces—a path to healing forged through the transformative power of suffering and resilience.

Marcelo Nunes is an author and performer whose artistic journey is rooted in an incessant quest for novelty, influenced by his experiences in Brazil and Europe. His practice focuses on three techniques: trapeze, clowning, and fakir, exploring the wild nature of humanity.

To discover at the circusnext Revelations on 12 & 13 June at the Théâtre de la Cité internationale.

En partenartiat avec

April 24, 2025by mediationWORK-IN-PROGRESSWORK-IN-PROGRESS

circusnext 2025 Revelations

On 12 and 13 June, come and discover the 4 Laureates of the circusnext 2025 Selection at the Théâtre de la Cité internationale (Paris).

On the programme for the circusnext 2025 Revelations

4 Laureate companies, selected among 12 Finalists by an artistic jury, will present a fragment of their show each evening.

Whether you are a circus fan or simply curious, save the date in your diaries!

circusnext 2025 Laureates

Jef Everaert & Marica Marinoni (France)

In Difference

David Martin (Sweden)

Metaphoric Objects

Cie Inéluctable (France)

CE(UX) QUI RESTE(NT)

Cie Dissociée (France)

GHETTO

PRACTICAL INFORMATION

12 & 13 June 2025 · 19:30

Théâtre de la Cité internationale

21 A Boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris

(Stop RER B T3a : Cité Universitaire)

In partnership with

April 23, 2025by mediationTRAINING

Body and Matter – A Shared Space

Masterclass from 28 April to 3 May 2025 at the Théâtre Silvia Monfort

Led by Inbal Ben Haim (circusnext 2021 Laureate with PLI), for the students of the Académie Fratellini and the Beaux-Arts de Paris.

Masterclass restitution open to the public on 3 May (info below)

circusnext, the Maison des Jonglages, the Académie Fratellini and the Beaux-Arts de Paris offer on a regular basis, their students a week-long masterclass led by a circus artist whose artistic approach intersects with the visual arts.

This is a time of collective research and experimentation, allowing participants to pool their learning and individuality.

How can the visual and performing arts be mutually enriching? What are the links between these two approaches, these two disciplines? What exchanges and dialogues are possible?

Corps et matière – un espace commun is a cross-disciplinary exploration between circus performers and visual artists to diversify the artistic, technical and scenographic approaches that resonate with the body and movement.

About Inbal Ben Haim, artist associated with circusnext in 2024-2025:

Inbal Ben Haim uses the rope, her circus prop of choise, to explore new intersections between circus and the visual arts, using paper as the essential and primary substance of her creative process. More generally, Inbal’s projects develop a poetic and visual language based on the encounter between body, material and space.

To discover the results of a week of research and experimentation:

Masterclass restitution

PRACTICAL INFO:

Saturday 3 May 2025 – 18:00

Duration 45 min

Théâtre Silvia Monfort – Espace Cabane

Free access – registration recommended at: infos.maison.jonglages@gmail.com

April 23, 2025by mediationSHOW

Carlo Cerato at the Rencontre des Jonglages Festival!

On 17 May 2025, Carlo Cerato (circusnext 2021 Laureate with Edo Cirque) will present his show Llabyellov goes outside at the Rencontre des Jonglages Festival, free and open to all.

“When we watch something like juggling, as an audience, we are put in the role of “explorer”, the same role the artist had when exploring a new juggling technique for the first time. The audience will find themselves as explorers, not in a jungle, but close to home; not with a wild animal, but with juggling.”

Llabyellov goes outside is a multi-format, multicoloured juggling solo creating a show that is both visual and sensory. Come and discover the surreal (and ironic) universe of Carlo Cerato!

Carlo Cerato discovered circus at the age of 11. He trained at FLIC in 2015 and later graduated from CNAC in 2019. With Léon Volet and Ramiro Erburu, he created the company EDO Cirque, 2021 circusnext Laureate. In 2020 he created the solo Llabyellov, then in 2022 he worked as an outside eye for the duo LAR by Davide and Mattia Bonetti. He is currently developing his new project ASTRAT, set to premiere in 2026.

PRACTICAL INFORMATION

17 May 2025 · 19:45

Duration : 40 min · From 6 years old

Place Charles de Gaulle, Bondy 93140

Free access

Festival Rencontre des jonglages

April 3, 2025by mediationWORK-IN-PROGRESS

Two circusnext 2025 Finalists at the Cirque Électrique, Paris

1 evening, 2 works-in-progress presentation of 20-minutes, 2 emerging figures in European contemporary circus to discover!

Juan Carlos Panduro and Cie Kimera will present a fragment of their current creation on Sunday 27 April at 17:00

Juan Carlos Panduro (Spain) · Salar la Pena · Handstand, poetry

A hybrid project between circus and poetry, Salar la pena brings a body in crisis to the stage. Through handstand, contortion, and voice, it explores failure, loss, desire, and everything that connects the sacred to the monstrous. A liturgy of cleansing and emptying, a call to the beyond.

Cie Kimera (Italy) · ES · Floor acrobatics, hanstand, fakir

In a raw aesthetics universe, ES explores fragmentation, disconnection, and rupture. A body decomposes and reconstructs itself to the rhythm of breaking glass and dripping water. The mirror shatters, and once the pieces are put back together, a question arises: am I still myself, or have I become something else?

PRATICAL INFORMATION

Sunday 27 April – 17:00

Duration: 2 hours (including interval) · From age 10

Cirque électrique – Place du Maquis du Vercors 75020 PARIS

Métro 11, Tram 3b : Porte des Lilas

April 2, 2025by mediationWORK-IN-PROGRESS

Hristina Ŝormaz (2024 Finalist) at Les Noctambules for the Brut d’Arènes festival.

From 31 March to 4 April, circusnext welcomes Hristina Sormaz at Les Noctambules (Nanterre) for a five-day residency. Join us on Friday 4 April at 20:30 for the work-in-progress presentation of her project Traces, as part of the tenth edition of the circus festival Brut d’Arènes!

Hristina Ŝormaz (Serbia) – Traces – Rope

How can humans and nature coexist? Traces depicts a shared ecosystem where the performer, space and matter influence each other. The artist uses clay and her body to create a landscape depicting conflict, destruction, and harmony. It’s a call for awareness of the human impact on the environment.

Hristina Ŝormaz started practicing circus and focusing on aerial rope while studying scenography in Serbia. She trained as an artist through non-formal education, artistic collaborations and masterclasses in circus and contemporary dance.

Discovering different physical practices became a way to question human relations with their environment and society, which led her to engage in a circus driven artistic, pedagogical, and social work. Since 2018, she is following doctoral studies in scenography, where she investigates the use of space and matter through a circus perspective.

PRACTICAL INFORMATION

Work-in-progress presentation – Friday 4 April 20:30

Les Noctambules – 220 Avenue de la République, 92000 Nanterre

(RER A, transilien L, stop: Nanterre Université)

Free access – Programme

March 27, 2025by mediationSELECTION

Selection of the 2025 Laureates

The circusnext artistic jury will select the 4 Laureate projects 2025 during the final selection phase in May!

21, 22 & 23 May, 2025 at the Théâtre de la Cité internationale

For professionals only – by invitation

On the agenda

20-minutes on-stage works-in-progress of the 12 Finalist projects
Encounters with the artists

Registration open until 12 May

Any question ? reservation@circusnext.eu

Full programme here

The 12 Finalist projects 2025

Hack the circus · Cie Farö Céleste – Justine Bernachon-Irisarri · France | Handstand, aerial · Premiere 2026
Insomnia · Jakob Jacobsson · The Netherlands | Rope ·Premiere 2025
In Difference · Jef Everaert & Marica Marinoni · France | Cyr wheel · Premiere 2025
BODY TERRITORY · Cie BETTERLAND – Marion Coulomb & Pépita Car · France | Rope, knife throwing · Premiere 2025
GHETTO · Cie DISSOCIÉE – Marcelo Nunes · France | Static trapeze, fakir, clown · Premiere 2026
ES · Cie Kimera – Cecilia Alice Manfrini & Aivjà Pezza · Italy | Floor acrobatics, handstand, fakir
CE(UX) QUI RESTE(NT) · Cie Inéluctable – Marius Fouilland & Aimé Rauzier · France | Floor acrobatics · Premiere 2026
Salar la pena · Juan Carlos Panduro · Spain | Handstand, poetry · Premiere 2025
Bestiaire/Vestiaire · Maison De La – Antoine Linsale · France | Floor acrobatics sol, silk, hair hanging · Premiere 2026
Metaphoric Objects · David Martin · Sweden | Juggling · Premiere 2026
Des amoures chiennes aux amour-lichen · Oriane Lautel · Belgium | Static trapeze · Premiere 2026
ARBO · !UKBUM! – Jef Kinds & Mia Drobec · Belgium | Aerial Straps · Premiere 2025

February 19, 2025by mediationWORK-IN-PROGRESS

Jakob Jacobsson (Finalist 2025) at RueWATT-2r2c, Paris

From 17 to 21 March, circusnext welcomes Jakob Jacobsson to the Coopérative de Rue et de Cirque for a five-day residency. Join us on 20 March at 17:00 to discover Insomnia during a work-in-progress presentation.

Jakob Jacobsson (The Netherlands) – Insomnia – Rope

Insomnia is inspired by the liminal spaces in which time flows at uneven paces, and the subjectivity of time when we find ourselves in them. It is a performance that utilises the physical languages of vertical rope and light design in order to suspend the audience in the sensation that time is not exactly what it seems.

The lights and the rope create sensations and imagery of suspense and fragmentation, and bring into question the length of a moment, and whether we can hold onto time

Jakob Jacobsson stumbled upon circus while working in a jazz bar adjacent to a small theatre in his Swedish hometown. Captivated by the immediate connection to the audience offered by the inherent physicality of circus, and its multi-disciplinarity, he set out to pursue it on his own.

He moved through France, England and The Netherlands, studied at Codarts Circus Arts, and participated in the pilot program of ICCAR, to explore the possibilities of aerial rope.

He’s joined in this creation by Finnish light designer Teo Lanerva, whose experience in bespoke light design within contemporary dance and circus is the skillset needed to create a performance in the borderland between the two art forms.

PRATICAL INFORMATION

Work-in-progress presentation – Friday 20 mars at 17:00

RueWaTT-2r2c – 18 Rue Watt, 75013 Paris

Come discover Jakob Jacobsson’s performance and exchange about his project!

Registration at reservation@2r2c.coop

Warning: This performance contains stroboscopic lighting effects which may affect people with photosensitivity

February 19, 2025by mediationWORK-IN-PROGRESS

Oriane Lautel (Finalist 2025) at Espace Périphérique, Paris

From 4 to 15 March, circusnext welcomes Oriane Lautel at the Espace Périphérique for a 10-day residency. Come and discover Des amoures chiennes aux amour-lichen on 14 March at 17:00 during a work-in-progress presentation.

Oriane Lautel (Belgium) – Des amoures chiennes aux amour-lichen – Static Trapeze

Eco, a one-of-a-kind character, invites us to a family dinner to tell us all about it. Even stuffed with anachronisms, it’s succulent. She’s shameless and voracious. We’re in her shack, which looks like a badly assembled fairground barnum, though it’s actually the ridges of an ancestral mineral. She talks with her mouth full. She drools, we salivate. This is the story of Eco, of Actéonne who, after a metamorphosis, becomes Accettone, of the woman with a hundred eyes who, in several episodes, takes us on this viscous journey.

Welcome to a world swallowed up by female/queer characters who want to form a whole with their stories, bodies and voices. How desire and violence are housed in the same body. Indiscernible. A chimera body. Algae and Mushrooms. Desire and Violence. My lichen has parents.

Oriane is a hybrid circus creator and performer. She learned to sew with a diploma in costume design. She tried her hand at research at the Sorbonne Nouvelle. And it was at the École Supérieure des Arts du Cirque that she discovered the body machine. Now based in Brussels, she sews all these skills together to create spectacular projects, always in close collaboration. She develops a carnal and radical relationship with the stage.

In 2022, she co-created her first indoor circus show with Camille Granger, Le Cri du bombyx. This project is part of a research project started in 2016 with Anarchitecture, focusing on the deconstruction of the apparatus and the non-virtuoso circus gesture.

PRATICAL INFORMATION

Work-in-progress presentation – Friday 14 mars at 17:00

Espace Périphérique – 2 rue de la Clôture, 75019 Paris

Come and discover the intimate and powerful world of Oriane Lautel and exchange about her project!

Registration at reservation@circusnext.eu