A born “amazon woman” for whom being a circus artist is also a way of stepping outside feminine stereotypes.
Originally from the Ardennes, Vassiliki was born in Charleville-Mézières, where she took her first steps in life and in the world of gymnastics.
From an early age, she expressed to her parents her desire to become an acrobat. While gymnastics taught her discipline, the value of hard work, and how to fall, she never lost sight of her goal: joining the Centre national des arts du cirque.
In 2012, Vassiliki decided to leave the Ardennes for the Marne region to join the first cohort of the circus arts program at the Lycée Pierre Bayen and the gymnastics club of Châlons-en-Champagne. It was there that she confirmed her desire to become a circus artist and began to find the words to express it.
In 2015, she obtained her high school diploma and earned a place in the preparatory year at the École nationale des arts du cirque de Rosny-sous-Bois. She began training as a base artist on the aerial frame for one year before meeting the discipline—and the partner—with whom she would become inseparable: the flying rope.
She was given the opportunity to repeat her preparatory year in order to train alongside her new partner.
In 2016, their shared journey began. They became inseparable and started developing reflections on rhythm, sharing, and embodiment together. This reflection is also deeply acrobatic, as she sees it as the driving force of her research. They enjoy working at height and do not feel they are defying gravity, but rather opening a new space—one they learn to inhabit and understand with the help of her partner (the rope), as well as through skydiving, which she has recently begun practicing.