After trying his hand at pizza-making and as a postman, at the age of 26 Fabrizio Rosselli discovered the joys of juggling and decided to devote his life to it.

Claire Heggen is joint artistic director (with Yves Marc) of the Théâtre du Mouvement, a company devoted to research and creativity. As an author, actress and director, her cross-disciplinary skills draw upon a rich array of contrasting aesthetic influences.

Joan Catala approaches the stage as a space for dialogue between humans, objects and their environment, a crucible in which performance and work exist in total fusion with the tools, experiences and ideas contributed by each and every participant.

Dancer, mime, sculptor: Maren Strack explores the interactions between movement and materials.

Ruyzo Fukuhara was trained in the art of Buto dancing and the Noguchi method.

Avner Eisenberg, known as Avner the Eccentric, is an American vaudeville performer, clown, mime, juggler, and sleight of hand magician.

Barbara Duijfjes is an artist originally hailing from the Netherlands.

Movement, the body and dance are the inspirations behind all of La Ribot’s work, the fundamental source of her art.

Internationally-renowned clown Slava Polunin’s greatest ambition has always been to pursue his wildest dreams in a quest for absolute freedom".

Barbara Duijfjes is an artist originally hailing from the Netherlands.

An American writer, clown and psychologist specialising in autism, Howard Buten is as well-known for his books as for his artistic work as his alter ego Buffo.

Marcel Marceau was an emblematic artist who has come to embody the modern disciplines of mime and pantomime. His character Bip, a sort of latter-day Pierrot forever struggling to get to grips with the pitfalls of the modern world, earned him fame and acclaim all over the world

Daniel Raffel has been a self-taught puppeteer since 1981.

Maguy Marin is a French contemporary dancer and choreographer.

Jean-Paul Céalis was a visual artist and teacher with a passion for reusing everyday objects in surprising ways.

Jacques Lecoq is a renowned acting coach whose work has embraced everything from dramatic mime to mask theatre, the role of the chorus in ancient tragedy, clowning and physical comedy.

Diego Stirman, the tale of the doctor who became a clown.

Yorgos Karamalegos founded the companies Momentum and Tmesis with Elinor Randle, and went on to work with his own production laboratory.

Jorg Muller is a graduate of the Centre National des Arts du Cirque.

Gilbert Epron studied in the Académie Charles Dullin and the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Paris.

Kaisuke Kanaï is a Japanese dancer and juggler.

Xavier Mortimer is a multi-discipline artist with a wealth of skills: he trained as a musician (clarinet and accordion), dancer, mime artist, circus artist and studied at Lecoq.

Shiro Daïmon is a Japanese dancer.

Pierre Étaix enjoyed a long and illustrious career in comedy and the circus, earning an immense reputation as both screen performer and music hall artiste.

In over two decades as an artist, director, choreographer and multi-media composer, Klaus Obermaier has created a corpus of innovative works combining new media with traditional stagecraft, music and installations.

Sun-A Lee is a Korean artist who first came to international attention in 2007 with her solo show Performing Dream, which won the French Ambassador’s Award for best young choreographer.

Originally hailing from Barcelona, Leandre Ribera has taken his sad clown persona all over the world, spreading his inimitable blend of tenderness and fantasy.

Luis Torreao trained with Thomas Leabhart, and is also a former pupil and assistant of Étienne Decroux. He also studied journalism and served as artistic director of Circo Voador in his native Brazil. In France, he earned a Master’s degree in Theatrical Studies and a teaching qualification specialising in Theatre.

A graduate of the Académie Fratellini, Rémi Boissy has worked with Styx Théâtre, Emma Dante, Juliette Deschamps and Collectif BIB, as an acrobat specialising in the Chinese pole as well as a physical performer.

Thomas "Thom" Monckton is an artist originally hailing from Patea in New Zealand. He spent two years at New Zealand’s CircoArts school, followed by two years at the physical theatre school at Théâtre Lecoq, Paris.

Carole Fages is a clown artist and graduate of the Samovar school who has already collaborated on performances with an array of theatre companies.