Circ-Exchange x reboot

reboot is an international cooperation project between the Swiss company Courant d’Cirque and the French Compagnie d’Elles, supported by Movetia and ProHelvetia.
It is about sharing knowledge and best practices with the aim of understanding circus arts as a possible place of transformation. Around the two companies, a dozen associated partners are actively involved in the project.
All these players in the circus world are joining forces to develop benevolent and inclusive practices to revolutionize the aesthetics of tomorrow.

Sarah Simili
Sarah Simili was born in 1983 in Valais (Switzerland) and is a circus artist, director, teacher and researcher. Since 2015, she has directed the Compagnie Courant d’Cirque and the encirqué project(s). Sarah is also responsible for the production and management of several large-scale projects, including LABO’Cirque and Axé Cirque. She holds a DAS in Cultural Management and a CAS in Dramaturgy and Text Performance and completed a Master’s degree in Gender Studies at the University of Angers in 2023. She also trained as a gender equality consultant at La Petite in Toulouse. In 2024, she began a second Master’s degree in Management of Artistic Educational Institutions at the University of Rouen. In addition to her artistic, educational and academic activities, Sarah is strongly committed to the recognition and structuring of circus arts in Switzerland. She was president of the Swiss Federation of Circus Schools (FSEC) for 7 years and co-founder of the ProCirque association, of which she is currently co-president.

Yaelle Antoine
Yaëlle Antoine trained at the Annie Fratellini circus school and at L’Esacto-Lido in tightrope walking and contortion. After an injury, she left her career as an acrobat behind and used her years of experience in the circus ring as a director and teacher. She experiments with writing in the circus, inspired by the circus and the spoken word. Most of her work is co-written with Marion Guez, a tightrope walker, researcher and lecturer at UGA, and she is a co-founder of Les Tenaces, a women’s collective that fights against sexism and for equality in circus and street arts. Year after year, Yaëlle Antoine invests in urban and public spaces in search of the right spaces for her dramaturgies. For her, investing in public space remains a preferred artistic means of concretizing her social and political concerns through mediation and artistic actions. She plays with formats, spaces and aesthetics and has a penchant for hybridity. Yaëlle Antoine is a member of the Esacto-Lido teaching team and participates in a number of training courses. Yaëlle Antoine is subsidized by the Occitanie region and the Drac.

Agathe Dumont
Agathe Dumont is a dancer and art teacher at the École supérieure d’art et de design TALM – Angers and holds a doctorate in performing arts from the Université Sorbonne-Nouvelle. She conducts theoretical and practical research on the everyday body and artistic work. On the one hand, she focuses on the sociology of artistic work, the relationship between “care” and the organization of work, on the other hand, she develops practical research in the studio or on stage on everyday life, training, gestures of care and resistance, especially in circus, dance or performance within TERRAIN – L’incubateur en Pays de la Loire. From 2015 to 2020, she worked with Mariam Faquir on an artistic research project at L’L-chercher en arts vivants, which resulted in the book Déclinaisons du quotidien, mettre le corps au travail, published by L’Éditions in 2023.

Jules Farce
In 2012, Jules Farce founded the queer, feminist and self-managed Parisian bar La Mutinerie. In 2019, he also co-founded – together with Elsa Deck-Marsault and Cha Prieur – Collectif Fracas, a queer and feminist collective that helps people deal with interpersonal conflict, violence and aggression. These two groups, each in their own way, have taught him a lot about how groups function, how to regulate conflict and how to consider systemic issues of power and oppression. Jules has trained in a range of restorative justice and transformative justice tools and systems, and also works as an institutional socioanalyst as an independent consultant. His practice aims to clarify and analyze the forces at work in a group to help people emerge from crisis and reorganize their collective forms.