“In hope, there is grief, consolation, exhilaration, black holes, acceptance… and the visceral conviction that beneath all the moods and contradictions of the world, there is a visceral, powerful, wild joy.
With our fiery, volcanic circus technique, with our circus trances, with our wild, intense jubilation, talking about our fears, our flaws and our doubts, this is the joy we want to talk about. Because deep down we feel it’s powerful, determined… and constructive. As we throw clubs and bodies through the air, we cry out for freedom!
Sara and Angelos.

Sara Desprez and Angelos Matsakis met over 20 years ago during their respective training courses at ENCC (Châtellerault) and ESAC (Brussels). Since 2008, they have been writing, directing and sharing the ring for their own creations through their company, Cirque Exalté.
The company is based in Le Mans, and performs in France and abroad, under its own big top as well as on the street and in theatres. The company is committed to the long-term dissemination of all its creations.

Sara Desprez

Swinging trapeze, acrobatics, aerials

At the age of six, while pumping her legs as high as possible on her swing, she threw herself into the air, shouting, “Look, Mommy!”… Thanks to a quick-thinking passer-by, she had a narrow escape from what could have been her final flight! Ten years later, Desprez trained at the The National Circus School of Châtellerault (l’Ecole Nationale de Cirque de Châtellerault, ENCC), then at the Ecole Supérieure des Arts du Cirque of Brussels (ESAC), where she specialized in the swinging trapeze.
She subsequently joined the Helsinki Winter Circus in Finland for two consecutive seasons. Always excited to learn, Sara trains for her acrobatic lifts alongside Angelos Matsakis, with whom she also decides to develop her abilities as a creative artist, by giving birth to the Cirque Exalté Company.

Angelos Matsakis

Juggler, acrobatic lifts

After having dabbled in ping-pong, horseback riding, rugby, badminton, ballroom dance, chess, synchronized swimming, Angelos finally discovers the activity for which he is destined: The Circus.
After his years at the Circus of Hobbies, during which Angelos is a jack of all trades, he is accepted to l’Ecole Nationale de Cirque de Chatelleraut (ENCC), then continues on to l’Ecole Superieure des Arts du Cirque de Bruxelles (ESAC), where he specializes in juggling and acrobatics. Soon after he participates in the creation of Cirque d’Hiver d’Helsinki in Finland, in which he works on his acrobatic lifts. In 2008, along with Sara, he created the Cirque Exalté Company.