Elsa Brion

Circus artist, dancer.
Artistic and educational co-director of l'Exosquelette,
Founding member of the association les Arts Felus.
Currently undergoing certification to become an Axis Syllabus teacher.

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After two years at university in Aix-en-Provence (DEUST theater), in 1998 she began training in acrobatic arts in Marseille with Jonathan Sutton (former acrobat with Fratellini and actor with the Théâtre du Soleil), which lasted 3 years.

She specializes in aerial disciplines (aerial frame, trapeze).
In 2001, together with other artists, she founded the Art's Felus circus company, with whom she creates, performs, invents and transmits circus and dance. It was also in 2001 that she met Frey Faust and the Axis Syllabus (research into the functioning of the body in movement).
After performing throughout France and Europe, in recent years she has devoted herself to teaching, and is working on the opening of a venue in the Drôme region, intended as a resource center for live performance and the arts of movement.
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In 2021 l'Exosquelette open its doors, and in 2024 it is recognized in France and abroad as a space for transmission, invention and creation of the performing arts.
In 2023, following the Traces training program in Benin, she embarks on a partnership with Aristide Goudalo, a Beninese dancer. This collaboration gave birth to the show Kan Xoxo Nu.  They are performing in France and Benin in 2023, 2024 and 2025, and training projects : Terre et Racines workshop, July 2024, 2025.
In December 2024, they brought together a group of children in Benin to begin a project that will develop over several years around the transmission of traditional dances acrobatic dance and respect for the integrity of the body. The project resonates and connects with French children, regular students of circus and acrobatic dance classes.
Deeply moved by this encounter between worlds, she is keen to continue developing her projects in Benin, while building bridges with her work in France.

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