Simon Bruyninckx

Co-founder, Teeterboard, Hand-to-Hand Base

Flemish by name and Flemish by nature he is the third of four siblings. He is originally from Mechelen, Belgium,

where he attended the Circolito Circus School at the age of 9, with his brother Vincent. It was love at first sight between

Simon and Circus. He started his professional career at the Academy for Circus and Performance Art in Tilburg where he met Arne Sabbe and together they specialised in Teeterboard and Hand-to-Hand. They then went on to the National Centre for

Circus Arts in Châlons-en-Champagne, from where they graduated in 2012.

After school Simon worked with Les Balagans (Monte Carlo Festival, Cirque du Soleil) and Planche A4 (Young Stage).

He is co-founder of the Collectif Malunés with Juliette Correa, Arne Sabbe and Vincent Bruyninckx, creating Sens Dessus Dessous, their first show together in 2010.

This man is a tamer of dragons. He raises and uses them to frighten the rabble, or lock-up the brave in the highest of dungeons.

Juliette Correa

Co-founder, Trapeze Artist and Aerial Cradle Flyer

She was born in Poitiers, France, to a French mother and an Argentinean father. Since a young age, she has been involved in everything from dance, to theatre, to taekwondo, to basketball. At the age of 14, she started at the circus school of Niort,

Cirque en Scène, where she had a revelation – « I will be a circus artist » – she promised herself.

So with her Baccalaureate in hand, she went to Toulouse to train at the Lido and La Grainerie. In 2007, she began training at Balthazar in Montpellier. Then she was accepted at the Academy for Circus and Performance Art, in Tilburg, the Netherlands, to train in swinging trapeze. Juliette is creative, optimistic and brings a crazy and beautiful energy to the group. She is at the origin of the creation of the Collective.

This red-hooded rider leads you to believe that she brings golden goods in her basket: water-of-life, brandy, wine, but no sausage!

Lola Devault Sierra

Hand-to-Hand and Aerial Cradle Flyer

The big top, the caravans, the sequined thongs, the flying trapeze, circus! That’s all she wanted to do when she grew up – well, except for the sequined thongs. The practicable, the beam, the leotards, that’s what she did for 10 years.

Afterwards she moved to a city with a sunny accent and a school with a spikey cat as its mascot: Balthazar in Montpellier.

She became a princess – translation: hand-to-hand flyer – and met Nickolas van Corven. They hit the road towards ACaPA then ESAC. Afterwards they joined Panama Pictures, a Dutch dance company, with whom they toured in many countries, even into the heart of China, and afterwards joined the company Hors-Pistes for their show Travelling Circus.

In the summer of 2014 the two acrobats landed in Switzerland to perform in the show Cyclope, before joining the Malunés family in the summer of 2015 for the last tour of Sens Dessus Dessous.

Beware of this witch, small but crafty, who bewitches men and walks over them with cruel laughter.