Amour, acide et noix (Love, Acid and Nuts) 

Lou Amsellem started her dance training at Louise Lapierre Danse (Montreal) learning ballet, contemporary, tap, jazz and hip-hop.

She is a graduate of l’École de danse contemporaine de Montréal where she got to work with canadian choreographers such as Virginie Brunelle, Heidi Strauss, Riley Sims and Sébastien Provencher.

Also a model and dancer, we can see Lou in many music videos and commercials. In the winter of 2022, she entered the company Sylvain Émard Danse.

Lou shares her passion for movement through teaching since 2018. In 2020, she co-founded Horizons collective in which their interests are instinctive movement and the use of objects in space.

Marco Arzenton started studying modern dance and urban dance in a private school in the province of Padua. He attended many workshops with different teachers integrating his training through theater courses and dance therapy classes. In 2018, after the audition, he attended ADT, a professional training course directed by Greta Bragantini, where he had the opportunity to deepen the study of modern and contemporary dance. From the following year he joined the “Iuvenis danza” company as a young dancer, first in various projects and then taking part in the re-edition of the performance “ON ATTEND… little Godot da camera”.

From December 2019 he started working as a mime dancer for some lyrical symphonic foundations in Italy including the Arena di Verona Foundation, the Donizetti Theater Foundation in Bergamo, the Alla Scala Theater Foundation in Milan. In October 2021 he joined Mario Coccetti’s “Esse Dance Company” in the first studies of “Darkroom”, “The Winner” and in the production “Orfeo ed Euridice, Melancholia”. In July 2022 he passed the audition for the realization of the performance “Perpeetum Mobile” produced by “MN Dance Company” by Michal Rynia and Nastja Bremec for SNG Nova Gorica, Slovenia.

Marco Curci began training in dance at six, studying ballet, modern, contemporary, tap, and acting. He trained with renowned teachers and earned scholarships to AMDA (NYC), Peridance Capezio Center (NYC), and Studio Harmonic (Paris).

From 2015 to 2018, he co-hosted a radio show in Italy while earning a degree in Linguistic and Intercultural Mediation, including studies in Germany. In 2016, he joined DV8 Physical Theatre’s workshop in Berlin and became a dancer with Eleina D. Dance Company, refining his movement with Vito Cassano and training in aerial dance with Claudia Cavalli. In 2020, he was selected for the Biennale Theatre College (Venice) and taught at Kataklò Academy. In 2021, he performed in Choròs (Oriente Occidente Festival) and attended Gecko Theatre’s Professional Residency in London.

He currently works as a dancer, aerialist, and performer for Eleina D. Dance Company in productions including Humans, Little Red Riding Hood (Eolo Award 2019), Anima Mundi, Hooked, and Phobos (co-produced with Ballet National de Marseille).

Jimmy Gonzalez is a self-taught juggler who perfected his practice at the École nationale de cirque de Châtellereault and the École nationale de cirque de Montréal. After co-founding the non-profit organization Et des Hommes Et des Femmes, he won the gold medal at the Sol y Circo Festival in 2013 and the gold medal at the Festival Mondial du Cirque de Demain in 2015. Since then, he has performed with world-renowned companies such as Cirque du Soleil, Cirque Eloize, and Les 7 Doigts de la Main.

In recent years, Jimmy has turned to the creation of participatory improvisation systems to create evolving and random choreographies and landscapes, evoking simple images that highlight the beauty of human interactions. With his partner Erika Nguyen, he is working on multidisciplinary creation projects that question and re-imagine the circus arts.