Léa Verhille was born near the French capital in January 1991. After seven years of club gymnastics, she took courses in scuba diving, rock climbing, water skiing, and skydiving, which added excitement to a whole chapter of her life.
Once she had earned her high school diploma, it was her friend Lou Ghiglionda who sparked her desire to enroll at the Balthazar Center for Circus Arts in Montpellier. That same year, they studied Celtic harp together at the Conservatory.
Her first specialty, the aerial hoop, highlighted her deceptively slender ballerina’s figure and sparked a desire to collaborate with partners, blending grace and vertigo. She enrolled at the National School of Circus Arts (ENACR) in Rosny-sous-Bois to train as an aerial trapeze artist.
It was this encounter that gave rise to an exhilarating collaboration: a collective of four women who sought to draw inspiration from their nuances, their differences, and even their disagreements, to lay the unique foundations of their quartet.
At the same time, Léa developed a subtle exploration of balance on stilts, titled *Un Bras*. Her ideas come to life when she attends Jeanne Mordoj’s *L’Éloge du Poil*, François Fabre’s *Si le bibi de Boby m’était compté*, and Charly Astié’s *Quand on écrit le mot arbre, on se plante*. She turns toward risk, text writing, physicality, the contortion of her feet, creaks, and nails.