James Thiérrée

The North Star of contemporary circus. Perhaps one of the first to be born into a contemporary circus family, James Thiérrée is a sublime and transporting artist – justly a famous name in his own France, where he launched his career by winning a brace of Moliere Awards with first show The Junebug Symphony. The productions that followed – La Veillée des Abysses, Au Revoir Parapluie, and Raoul – share in common a lightness of heart and gesture, an old-fashioned ingenuity of set and costume design that comes from the input of his mother Victoria Chaplin, a preoccupation with our myths and oldest stories, and a particular gift for poetic image-making.