Hector was born in October 1995 in Santiago, Chile, and grew up in La Serena.
Versatile and outgoing from a young age, he began his sporting path as a gymnast from the age of ten to fifteen. Coming from a working-class family, he and his brother and sister learned several jobs from an early age to help their parents. He worked in a beach kiosk, in a perfume shop, at street fairs, and more. He also worked in the mountains with his father, who is a geodesy engineer.
Hector has always been very close to his brother and sister. His brother, Francisco, has Asperger syndrome, which required Hector to adapt to a different reality in order to maintain their relationship. Indirectly, this experience would later influence his imagination and artistic universe.
At eighteen, he began to question his professional path when he met his cousin at a family gathering, who was attending a preparatory circus program at the FLIC Scuola di Circo. His cousin encouraged him to enter this world. Intrigued, Hector auditioned and was accepted, joining the program from 2014 to 2016.
There, he had his first encounter with contemporary circus, including theatre, dance, and research-based practices. After trying several disciplines, he discovered Chinese pole, which became his specialization.
After two years of training, he became fully convinced that circus was his passion. He then pursued professional training, leading him to the DNSP1 program of the ENACR/CNAC track at the École nationale des arts du cirque de Rosny-sous-Bois.
Now in his third year at the Centre national des arts du cirque, he explores new sensations on the Chinese pole, where technique is no longer the main ambition.
He now prioritizes fluidity and an authentic movement vocabulary that allows him to express his own artistic universe.