Gala Preforming Guests
Yahel & Kira
‘Yes You, No Me’ is a playful duo acrobatic theatre performance aimed towards all audiences. With two circus artists on stage, it shows new original technique combining partner acrobatics, handstand canes and physical theatre to explore how we deal with conflict in relationships.
Duo Full house
Duo Full House – Physical Comedy in every possible language thanks to Swiss precision married to American showmanship!
Natasha Peterson
Natasha was born in a small town named Inverness near San Francisco. Her early exposure to circus was realized through the San Francisco Circus Center, which led to her first appearance on stage at age 5 performing with The Pickle Family Circus. At age 10 she joined Cirque du Soleil’s show KOOZA as a contortionist. While on tour, she was introduced to juggling by her first coach Anthony Gatto who took her under his wing and trained her everyday during the show’s intermission break. After 5 years of touring with the company, she left to pursue juggling at the National Circus School of Montreal, where she also completed a formation in hand to hand and acrodance. Rooted in a multidisciplinary approach to circus, she dove further into dance, theater and music by taking numerous workshops along the way. Over the years, she has had the pleasure of working and collaborating with various international circus and dance companies such as Les 7 Doigts, Cirque Eloize, Circus Monti, Jacob Jonas the company, Nohbords and more. Today, she is a performer and co-director for People Watching, an acrobatic dance company founded in 2020 with 5 other members.
Enrique Rozenman
Enrique was born in Argentina in 1996. At the age of 12, he discovered circus and over time this interest honed in on juggling. In 2014 he travelled to different Latin American countries, participating in circus conventions throughout Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador and Colombia, deepening his circus research and specialization in club juggling. In 2016, he returned to Argentina to pursue his formation in juggling, theatre and dance. Between juggling workshops, he enrolled in the Eureka Laboratory of contemporary circus and the Eme (specializing in movement experimentation). In 2020, he moved to Europe to being his professional formation at Esacto Lido in Toulouse France where he is currently in his third and final year specializing in Juggling
Batist van Baekel
Batist van Baekel is a Belgian circus artist who specialized in club juggling. He graduated from the Circus University Codarts (Rotterdam, The Netherlands) in 2022 where he developed his love for juggling and object manipulation, influenced by dance, acrobatics and physical theater. Next to his solo work, he is part of the duo Jam.Shenanigans where he works with Henri Kangas on playful and energetic juggling with everyday objects.
Batist did his first 3 ball flash at the age of 8 when he first came in contact with the circus through the local youth circus.
At the gala he will present his act “Les couleurs de la forêt”
A poetic pas de deux in which he explores the connectivity between the body and the objects
Helena Berry
Helena Berry is an England based circus performer. She spent 6 years at circus school in two different countries, during her time there she found her passion for juggling and developed a style that incorporates foot juggling and acrobatics. She has performed and toured with a variety of companies including Gandini juggling and The 7 fingers.
Alonso Matias Gonzales Bariye
Alonso, born in the cold lands of Punta Arenas in southern Chile, became obsessed with ball juggling at an early age, persevering in a self-taught practice and for pleasure. Over time he discovered the world of circus, opening the doors to contemporary dance and acrobatics. Currently, after graduating from École Supérieure des Arts du Cirque in Brussels, he is focused on finding his own signature within the combination of object manipulation, dance, and acrobatics on stage. Always with a sense of humor.
Emmanuel Ritoux
Emmanuel Ritoux learned to juggle in 2013 in Toulouse, France. After a quick detour on the bench of the medical school, he enters in 2018 the preparatory circus school in Lyon (ECL), where he discovers other artistic fields, such as dance and clowning. In 2020, he returns to his hometown and enters ESACTO-LIDO, the circus school of Toulouse, where, now on his third and final year, he keeps exploring different ways of mixing his dancing, juggling, and acting.
Trio non-sin-tri
“A creature appears before us. It is made up of three humanoids. Together, they breathe and constantly mutate. It has the ability to split apart, although only briefly, and when they come back together, they create different monstrous morphologies. Sometimes, it likes to ride a unicycle, juggle clubs, and climb on itself. Other times, all at once…”
Manuel Mitasch & Moritz Rosner
Manuel Mitasch, co-founder of Jonglissimo, and Moritz Rosner, a multiple world record holder, are proud to present their first show together, “Elevate”, at this year’s IJC Gala Show. With their new show concept, Manuel and Moritz have found the balance between the aesthetics of juggling, and pure technical skill. Carefully programmed to the music, “Elevate” showcases stunning visual effects, spectacularly choreographed performance, and highly technical juggling.
Ivano Hoang
Ivano is a diabolo player and dancer from Taiwan. In his research he is working on combining his unique movement style with his diabolo.
Baptiste Jeannequin
Baptiste Jeannequin grew up in the suburbs of Paris where he started practicing juggling around the age of 16 as an autodidact to support his hyper activity and respond to a deep desire for creation. After a chaotic school career and disappointed by the proven effectiveness of the French educational system in stimulating his interest in living things, he moved towards a hunt for boredom that will eventually lead him to juggling, movement and improvisation. He’s conducting a search around a body, found (his) that he thought was lost forever. Recently, he was released de-formed from the Center Régional des Arts du Cirque de Lomme, and now he works to produce a coherence between the presence of the body and of the objects on stage in live performance mainly with the creation of the show “DiGitôLE” (juggling trio and a musician) and “From Cartoon to Techno” (juggling solo and jester).