Tia, 22, is of Malagasy mixed heritage and comes from the southwest of France.
She grew up in the Landes region, near the pine forests and the ocean, and began circus training at the École de cirque Alex Galaprini.
At 18, she chose to pursue a professional path by joining the École de cirque de Bordeaux, where she discovered acrodance. She was immediately drawn to the uniqueness of this discipline, which imposes no spatial constraints.
For her, acrodance is a discipline in its own right, not a hybrid between acrobatics and dance.
She does not define her practice as a fixed form or an end goal, but rather through an energy—often seeing it as fire. This “fire” is also a journey of the center of gravity and an exploration of possibilities, placing instability at the core of her research.
Her body is constantly in motion, seeking temporary verticality and creating a strong earth–sky relationship. It plays with gravity and constantly strives to lift itself away from the ground. For her, the body, space, time, floor, sound, light, and costume are all materials and supports.
Tia enjoys exploring her body through its biomechanics, fluids, and states, as well as through the influence of external elements. She works with the ambivalence between a contained body and a containing body.
Her research focuses on discovering new pathways, games, and bodily systems that reveal what she calls a “poetic acrobatics.”
Thus, both through her concrete relationship to body, space, and time, and through memory and imagination, she seeks to “populate” the stage—becoming plural with her body, mind, and presence.
Fascinated by the aesthetics of fashion, design, and architecture, she is inspired by the perspectives shaped by a body in space. Her artistic research is built around instinctive and choreographic composition on stage.