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Raphaëlle Boitel
Raphaëlle Boitel (born 1984) is a French Circus, circus performer, contortionist, Acrobatics, acrobat, actress, theatre director, and choreographer. She started as a contortionist Street performance, street performer as a child, then appeared in internationally touring works by James Thiérrée and others, including ''La Symphonie du Hanneton (The Junebug Symphony)''. She founded her own company, Cie L'Oublié(e), in 2012, and began to produce and direct as well as perform, creating the internationally touring productions ''L'Oublié(e) (The Forgotten)'' and ''La Chute des Anges (When Angels Fall)'' among other works. Boitel has also worked as a television and film actress, and as a choreographer for opera, including at La Scala. Early life Boitel was born in 1984, the youngest of four children. Their father died in 1986, and from that time, Boitel's mother, Lilou, decided she would "follow her children and serve them". When the children wanted to study circus arts, their mothe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Circus Performer
A circus is a company of performers who put on diverse entertainment shows that may include clowns, acrobats, trained animals, trapeze acts, musicians, dancers, hoopers, tightrope walkers, jugglers, magicians, ventriloquists, and unicyclists as well as other object manipulation and stunt-oriented artists. The term "circus" also describes the field of performance, training, and community which has followed various formats through its 250-year modern history. Although not the inventor of the medium, Newcastle-under-Lyme born Philip Astley is credited as the father of the modern circus. In 1768, Astley, a skilled equestrian, began performing exhibitions of trick horse riding in an open field called Ha'penny Hatch on the south side of the Thames River, England. In 1770, he hired acrobats, tightrope walkers, jugglers, and a clown to fill in the pauses between the equestrian demonstrations and thus chanced on the format which was later named a "circus". Performances developed si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
