They met at the end of the 20th century, at Lyon school circus . After spending many years in an amateur creation studio then they had a training helping them to find their artistic identity and a strong friendship. From 2003 to 2005 everyone had scatter between Lido school in Toulouse and Lomme school in the north of France in order to find out new dynamics and meet news looks. Their first professional experiences give them the desire to get back together, to work together. The company Lapsus was created in 2010 in order to embody their desires of game all converging.
Gwenaëlle TRAONOUEZ
Aerialist
Gwenaëlle met Vincent at the dawn of the year 2000 at a circus skills lesson for amateurs. From this an artistic complicity was born. In 2005 she joined the Ecole de Cirque de Lyon and began to develop a singular language based around play, clowns and Acrobatic lifts with Vincent. In 2006 they continued working as a duo with the artistic group of Lomme. At the end of their 3 years of study "Swing Swing", an acrobatic and burlesque show, was released and continues to tour today after 50 or so shows. At the same time they took on the "Thé Perché" show from Cie Prise de Pied that they toured under the Yourte Belouga for 5 years with over 120 shows. At the end of 2011 they released the "Six Pieds sur Terre" show from Cie Lapsus. During all this activity they created the Cie 126 Kilos and created the Clownesque show "Banc de Sable" which came out in the beginning of 2015 and is currently touring.
Vincent BONNEFOI
Carrier
Vincent met Gwenaëlle at the dawn of the year 2000 at a circus skills lesson for amateurs. From this an artistic complicity was born. In 2005 he joined the Ecole de Cirque de Lyon and began to develop a singular language based around play, clowns and Acrobatic lifts with Gwenaëlle. In 2006 they continued working as a duo with the artistic group of Lomme. At the end of their 3 years of study "Swing Swing", an acrobatic and burlesque show, was released and continues to tour today after 50 or so shows. At the same time they took on the "Thé Perché" show from Cie Prise de Pied that they toured under the Yourte Belouga for 5 years with over 120 shows. At the end of 2011 they released the Six Pieds sur Terre show from Cie Lapsus. During all this activity they created the Cie 126 Kilos and created the Clownesque show "Banc de Sable" which came out in the beginning of 2015 and is currently touring.
Stéphane FILLION
Juggler
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Julien AMIOT
Carrier
After practicing Judo during 10 years, Julien discovered the Circus when he was 13 years old. After 7 years of Circus and STAPS classes (STAPS: Education for sport teaching in French secondary education), Julien integrated the training classes of the Circus school of Lyon. He also trained in acrobatic hand to hand during 3 years in the Circus school of Lomme (59). He got out in 2010 with an act of hand to hand called "La ruelle et lui" that he played with several partners during one year. He continued his training through the creations of the Lapsus Company and through few meetings in duet of hand to hand. He also developed juggled materials with kites. Expert pilot of the Revolution kite, he trained with Polokites and got specialised in indoor kites. Sewing, welding, joinery, everything is good to reinforce his scenography projects. He is the technical adviser of the Lapsus Company to which he provides his scenographic contributions and various personal inventions.
Jonathan GAGNEUX
Aerialist, unicyclist, balancing acrobat
Jonathan joined in 2003 the vocational training of Toulouse’s circus school, learn the unicycle and hand to hand with is carrier Mael Tortel of Cirque Pardi. In 2004 and 2005 he became France champion of artistic freestyle unicycle. In 2006, Jonathan participated in the creation of the show "Le Palais Nibo et ses Pensionnaires" by the company Les Têtes en l’Air they turn under circus tent for 5 years. He joined in 2010 AOC collective in the "Autochtone" show. Since 2012 he teaches balancing as part of vocational training of Balthazar’s circus school. In 2015 he participated and created with a group of acrobatic bike the show: "Roue libre" directed by Alain Reynaud.
Mathieu SAMPIC
General manager, lightning
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Marek HUNHAP
Composer, graphic designer, webdesigner
Marek Hunhap, born in 1981, is a french artist, composer, based in Marseille.
He starts out at the music Conservatory in Limoges as a classical pianist, before opting for musical composition, at the end of his studies, inspired by artists such as Steve Reich, Aphex twin, Jean-Jacques Perrey, Björk or Alva Noto.
Since then, he joined in 2002 the transdisciplinary collective l'Oreille Electronique directed by Pierre Redon and he learns the ropes in live performance, he collaborates with the E.S.A.C. in Brussels and circus companies like Lapsus, O Ultimo Momento and more recently Micro Focus collective among others.
In 2013 Marek creates the Chambre 5 company which allows him to develop his own performances, installations and videos.
His first audiovisual experience was with students from the National Studio of Contemporary Arts in le Fresnoy, he produced the music for their end-of-year short films.
In 2018, his encounter with Jean-Robert Viallet a documentary filmmaker, winner of the Albert London Prize, marks a turning point in his career. He compose for him the music of L’homme à mangé la Terre (Arte France) and Des Hommes (ACID selection of the Cannes Film Festival) directed with Alice Odiot, released in cinemas in 2020.
He also worked with Dalia Al Kury and Karoline Grindaker, Norwegian directors of the films The privacy of wounds and Ervin.
He composed the music of Made in France, a documentary directed by Alice Odiot and Sophie Nivelle-Cardinale and for La démocratie du dollar directed by Sylvain Pak
Drawing on these experiences, he is now working on many films that are still as exciting, and he continues to develop the Chambre 5 company.
Guilhem BENOIT
Acrobat, aerialist
With the Moroccan acrobatics, he meets professionals of dance and theater of movement. The encounters with Claire Heggen, Fabio Ezechiel, Peeping Tom, Tango Sumo, Léande and Cie La Tal ... confirm his desire to work, understand and contradict the work of the body, the actor and the character. His physical search took him today to work with Marek Hunhap, Marta Torrents and Aurélien Bory (Cie 111).
Johan LESCOP
Stage director
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Dorian LECHAUX
Acrobat, aerialist
A former high level athlete in Kin-ball, who has always been attracted to the theater and taking artistic risks. Though he began in theater and clowning, his daredevil tendencies and the people his discovery of the circus companies Galapiat and Apartes brought him to acrobatics and circus.
Ronan DUÉE
Carrier, unicyclist
He started riding a unicycle when he was 15 years old. After 3 years of university, he has explored thoroughly enough the French education system to know that it wasn’t for him. It was at 23 years old that he chooses to apply for a circus school and the even crazier thing is that no one stopped him. And so, in 2010, he entered the circus school of Lyon in France. In the course of his circus school at Lyon, he found himself a partner. He was a little guy with a big heart who was going to become his flyer. At this time he has decided to dedicate himself to becoming a base but on a unicycle. It turns out that all this was leading them to Quebec and the National Circus School of Montreal.
Cécile IMBERNON
Diffusion
After graduating in Cultural Development master at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques of Lille (Fr), Cecile worked at Pôle Jeune Public as Participation Manager (Toulon) and then to the young audience programming and cultural development in Rio Loco festival (Toulouse). In 2010, she went to Brussels and start touring several circus or street theater companies. In 2012, she joins Marion Lesort and fund La Chouette Diffusion focusing on contemporary circus. With La Chouette, she decided to support emerging projects and she started touring Lapsus first creation "Six pieds sur Terre" in June 2012.
