Cirque La Compagnie
The Company
Cirque la compagnie is a Franco-Swiss circus company created in 2014. Its co-founders met and trained at the Montreal National Circus School. Their creations promote the values of collective work where mutual aid and sharing are founding values. Acrobatics and risk are their main areas of work.
The first creation of the company is the act «Planche-MĂąt», gold medalist at the “Festival Mondial du cirque de demain” in 2017. The company stands out for its strong acrobatic identity, its humor, its technical virtuosity, the limits that they want to push and their creativity. Often, it is from their personal humor that their original and technically remarkable creations were born. If we sense the singularity of each artist in this company, it is in the group that the artistic purpose makes sense. These characters are touching ones : simplicity and humor are communicative, provocative.
Their first show was born for the public space – « Lâavis bidon – Face A» (2016), which meets a real success. They then create «LâAvis Bidon – Face B» (2017), an indoor version of Face A. Thanks to its creations, Le Cirque la Compagnie has an international reputation.
They are currently working on the writing of their next show, «Pandax», which will be released in June 2021 under a big top.
The Shows
The Team
Zackary Arnaud
Korean teeterboard, free ladder, acrobatics
When he is 17 years old, Zackary decides to travel the world and ends up training at ENACR (Rosny-sous-Bois), then at NCS (Montreal). His particularity? Teeterboard. Now, Zackary is eager to learn, experiment and meet the audience by giving joy, by questioning⊠passion!
Baptiste Clerc
Chinese pole, Korean teeterboard, acrobatics
Baptist has always shown a certain taste for risk and fall. For 10 years, he assiduously trains himself in circus disciplines until he finds what he truly loves, the Chinese pole. 4 intense years of professionnel stage Training at NCS (Montreal) confirms his passion, and the desire to share through his shows.
Charlie Mach
Acrobatic chairs, teeterboard, acrobatics
Circus always had a big role in his life. At 3, Boris starts at his parentâs circus school: «centre rĂ©gional des arts du cirque de Piste dâazur». At 15, his circus carreer is slowely growing: preparatory class and then ENACR (Rosny-sous-bois). Specialized in teeterboard, he meets Zackary Arnaud with whom he creates «Des gars de planche». After he graduated from NCS in Montreal, he came back to France with all this richness of culture and new horizons.
Boris Fodella
Korean teeterboard, acrobatics
Circus always had a big role in his life. At 3, Boris starts at his parentâs circus school: «centre rĂ©gional des arts du cirque de Piste dâazur». At 15, his circus carreer is slowely growing: preparatory class and then ENACR (Rosny-sous-bois). Specialized in teeterboard, he meets Zackary Arnaud with whom he creates «Des gars de planche». After he graduated from NCS in Montreal, he came back to France with all this richness of culture and new horizons.
Boris Fodella
Korean teeterboard, acrobatics
Originally from a small French village, not far from Angers in Maine et Loire, Nicolas discovered the circus at the age of 5. He passed his literary baccalaureate with a heavy option “Art du cirque” at the Marcelin Berthelot High School in ChĂątellerault, where he discovered the free ladder and acrobatics. With his baccalaureate in hand, he left for three years to the National Circus School of Montreal, where he perfected his skills in ladder, general acrobatics and acting. He worked for two years with Peter James, an established actor for whom he has a lot of respect. Since then, Nicolas has blossomed by “going from contract to contract” with the result: encounters, beautiful moments on stage, beautiful moments of life, beautiful moments of doubt… In his words: “The school of life that I want to live”.