It was by chance that Lluna found herself in the circus world. She’s from Barcelona. From a very young age, she was immersed in the arts, taking classes in dance, music, and theater… but she always dropped out after just one term.
She remembers her mother telling her one day about a big top set up in Barcelona. It belonged to the Rogelio Rivel Circus School. She finished high school and, having no specific career plans, turned to the circus and applied for the school’s entrance exam. Dressed in jeans, she had no idea what awaited her. She was accepted.
There, she practiced a lot of acrobatics and trampoline and wanted to become an acrobatic dancer or a trampoline artist. But a deep fear of the stage made her doubt her determination to become an artist. Her parents are actors. She remembers that as a child, she wanted her mom to have a job with “normal” hours, to have less eccentric ideas, and to make her wear matching socks on each foot.
However, after training at Rogelio Rivel, Lluna tried her luck at other schools: Stockholm, Brussels, Paris. She was accepted into the National School of Circus Arts in Rosny-sous-Bois (ENACR), where she met the troupe she now works with. What handsome French boys. They come from the Balthazar Center for Circus Arts in Montpellier and practice the Korean swing. She had already tried her hand at this discipline, she’s quite skilled on the trampoline, and she likes the idea of working as part of a group. She’s ready to join them.
The group completes the two-year training program at Enacr. There, Lluna acquires all the fundamentals of this specialization and gets to know a group of people with whom she lives and works every day. It’s not always easy. The troupe continues on its path by joining the National Center for Circus Arts in Châlons-en-Champagne, where she begins to develop her graduation project.
Since its inception, this collective has been creating performances in various formats, which it presents to the public every summer. Today, there are six members, and they have been working together for nearly four years—with a single director, but drawing on everyone’s ideas and aspirations.