Marisol Lucht was born into a warm and multicultural family with German and Chilean influences. She is careful to refer to “cultures” rather than nationalities, which she considers a potentially stigmatizing identity bias. Thanks to her family’s strong social, cultural, and political engagement, she had the privilege of traveling widely, which allowed her early on to be deeply influenced by people and cultures around the world.
At the age of 8, she begins practicing gymnastics and circus arts as a hobby. Due to her aversion to competition in gymnastics, she turns away from it four years later to fully dedicate herself to circus arts, which she experiences as a space of community, freedom, and creativity.
After high school, she is determined to pursue a path in social and political work. She completes a year of social and volunteer service in Colombia with the Circo Para Todos foundation. This becomes a defining experience that shapes who she is today. The people and friends she meets there encourage her to pursue her dream of becoming a circus artist. She then travels for six months across South America to better understand cultural and social diversity. Keeping all that has shaped her, she begins to envision a form of socially engaged circus.
After the preparatory program at the ENACR, she joins the Centre national des arts du cirque, where she specializes in the Cyr wheel.
She develops a vocabulary exploring movement and the contrast between the body and the apparatus: how can she create a living, surprising game? How can she free the body from the constraints of the apparatus to express what she feels and what moves her? This discipline, both grounded and aerial, allows her to combine sensations of lightness and freedom while maintaining a connection to the earth. She also explores adaptation to different surfaces.
She is passionate about dance, movement, play, and collective work. She also works with various materials such as flour, sand, and plaster.
During her training, she performs in a creation directed by Kaori Ito, as part of the revival of C’est pour toi que je fais ça !. She takes part in the neighborhood festival Place au Cirque in La Courneuve with Cie Galapiat. She is also part of the collective “Les Glaneuses,” a young and surprising collective, and performs in the new creation by Marie Molliens (Cie Rasposo) with her cohort.
Always eager to open new doors, she has a strong desire to try, discover, and deepen the different paths of circus arts, never stopping and always evolving because life never stops until death, and there is always room to do better.