In autumn, on November 21, 1992, Ivan Morales Ruiz was born in San Luis Potosí, a city in north-central Mexico.
He was inspired by the folklore and traditional culture of his country, where music, performing arts, and sport gradually became the foundations of his creative practice.
From early childhood, he was interested in dance and singing, which led him, at the age of ten, to begin formal vocal training in his school choir and to perform with children’s groups playing traditional Mexican music. At fourteen, he developed a fascination for collective work and a desire to engage with audiences in different places and contexts.
One evening, while working as a student in a supermarket, he met a woman who offered him weekend work with a touring circus visiting the city for the first time. His role was to provide food during the show and attend to audience needs. During this job, he began watching the performance and immediately fell in love with what he saw.
Following this experience at the age of fifteen, he decided to pursue a career as a circus artist and study it after high school. For four years, he practiced cheerleading and amateur theatre, seeking to combine sensory experience and acrobatics.
With the support of his teacher David Bear, he began training at nineteen in an introductory contemporary circus program offered in Mexico City by Cirko de Mente. He trained as a base in partner acrobatics and met artists such as Santiago Manuel (clown/circus) and Gerardo Trejo Luna (theatre).
In 2015, he chose to specialize in trapeze at the FLIC Scuola di Circo (2015–2017), where he worked alongside Matteo Lo Prete, Riccardo Massidda, Francesco Sgrò, Teresa Noronha Feio, and Roberto Magro.
He then successfully entered the second year (DNSP2) of the Centre national des arts du cirque to continue his training.
Since then, he has been exploring new approaches to the swinging trapeze, combining new techniques with unusual bodily states on the apparatus. He has begun developing and writing a solo performance based on the imagined possibilities of the swinging trapeze: “Je m’en trap..”.