Darian, German, was born in Potsdam in 1993.
To go to school, she rode her bike. Movement has always been a constant need for her. She joined sports clubs and trained for seven years in acrosport, then four years in volleyball. Both sports introduced her to the competitive world, from which she developed her desire for challenge. She took part in school projects abroad, traveling to China and France. She stayed there for three months, developing an early interest in languages and foreign cultures.
After graduating high school in 2011, her desire for an independent life pushed her to work and travel. She spent two years living in Chile, working as an au pair, waitress, and tour guide. She then felt a strong need for physical activity, which led her to take aerial silk classes. This first encounter with circus marked a turning point: she created a handstand act, performed it at traffic lights in the streets, and made it her daily profession. During this period, she lived in a squat and learned to make reusable sanitary pads, practice recycling, and cook.
Circus became her passion, and she returned to Europe in 2013 to prepare for entrance exams to professional circus schools. For a year in Potsdam, she worked as a circus teacher and school assistant, then moved to France to work as a waitress in the Hautes-Alpes and enjoy the snow. She never stopped training independently. Alongside her interest in free movement, artistic and athletic practice, and self-managed communal living, she developed a growing curiosity about the body (especially the female body) and its place in society.
In 2015, she joined the École nationale des arts du cirque de Rosny-sous-Bois and continued her studies at the Centre national des arts du cirque. Drawn to touch, intense sensations, and the soaring flight of the flying rope, she made it her specialty. Her reflections on the body deepened, integrating explorations of feminism and queer theory, which she translates into her artistic work.
She seeks to create her own world in the vast aerial space, while also bringing her apparatus closer to the ground to work in escarpolette, allowing her to blend her ground acrobatics vocabulary with her aerial rope practice without using a safety line.
During the summer season, she continues performing in the street with Lucie David, her hand-to-hand flyer partner. Together they created the duo “Eve & Eve,” which performed at the Aurillac Street Theatre Festival in 2018 and plans to develop a street form using the escarpolette.