WHO ARE WE ?

Our history

The Puéril Péril Company was born in 2015, under the leadership of Dorian, Ronan – acrobats specialized in hand-to-hand and carried on unicycles – and Emmanuelle – administrator. After five years at school, between Lyon and Montreal, Dorian and Ronan are burning to create and especially to play. One, two, three, together we go! BANKAL was released at the CAPI Circus Biennale in spring 2016. Since then, it has visited Chalon and has far exceeded 200 performances... and worn out a few stools.

The “Ardèche Terre d’Artistes” system gives them the opportunity to create a second show: L’Autre, a circus thriller, which comes out in 2018. They are joined on stage by Rachel – an acrobat they met during their Quebec training –, Mathis – composer/performer – and Manon – in support of production. Four, five, six: from three to three, we believe it!

2020 was to be the year of release of Mississippi, a duo with Rachel on the Cyr wheel and Mathis on the musical strings; and mark the passage of L’Autre to Avignon with “Occitanie fait son circus”… and then covid. We will therefore have to wait until 2021. In 2022, the company invites three artists freshly graduated from the Lyon Circus School and the CNAC to participate in its next creation: Kontact, a performance show designed to make you want to meet, which will be released in June 2024. Seven, eight, nine: from three to three, together we chart our path!

Of course it's a love story. It's always a love story.

Our team

Ronan Duee

Artist

Porter is a family story for Ronan, porter from father to son, son of a banana seller. And this story begins just before the awkward age of puberty, and it begins on a unicycle. Later in Lyon, Ronan decides to take Dorian on his back, and all these beautiful people happily go to Montreal to complete their quest. This quest continues today, through pedal strokes, strong arms and ever more childish perils.

Emmanuelle Nonet

Administrator

Me, if I had to summarize my life today with you, I would say that it is first of all meetings.
That of Dorian, in a charming town of character called Quintin. That of the contemporary circus, the big top circus, the collective circus with the Galapiats, with whom I had the chance to work for more than three years in administration. That of Ronan, in Lyon, mounted on a unicycle. Meetings lead to desires, desires for projects. Which sometimes come true...

Dorian Lechaux

Director / Artist

Madness follows the law of gravity, all you have to do is give it a light flick. The show “Zero Risk” by the Galapiat company was this flicker for Dorian and since then he continues to fall into his madness, accompanied by his carrier (who suffers and fuels him). He will have nourished this madness of circus and spectacle at the school of Lyon and Montreal to now present it to an audience. Let it put a smile on your face... :)

Manon Briens

Load Broadcast

We can explain everything we want to explain... After a while, to know how to ride a horse, you have to ride a horse!
She is a cultural mediator, a guide. So at the start, the broadcast was more of a joke with Manue, Dorian and Ronan: because she talks a lot and to a lot of people. Friendship takes you on funny adventures and that’s so much the better. And then, how can we be afraid of obstacles when we travel with them?
Come on, saddle up!

Mathis Der Maler

Musician

“It’s as old as the world, this, the novelty”
Mathis became passionate about his art late in life and obtained his diploma from the CNSMDL in writing and orchestration. He followed courses at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki for a year, an experience which led him to found the collective E.Ch.O. Invested in current music with the group Fallow and his solo project, he joined the company Puéril Péril as a composer-performer for the creation of "L'Autre"

Rachel Salzman

Artist

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simple. Rachel followed a path that was not simple, but always direct, ultimately: the circus. Born into classical ballet in New York, it was through gymnastics, modern dance, anthropology at university and nightclub shows that Rachel finally found herself at the National Circus School from Montreal where she met Dorian and Ronan. After Cirque du Soleil, she joined Pueril Peril. It was simply meant to be...

Patricia Minder

Artist

“Heavy weather is scary, but it makes you feel really alive.”
Speed, height, adventure, everything that’s a little scary and makes your pulse race, Patricia
love it. Curious but shy by nature, she never thought she would one day find herself on stage. But after
having met Xavier Mermod and having %ni the Lyon circus school and the CNAC, she is there. And she
is with a lot of love, sensitivity and a great desire to meet the public of another
way through each project.

Xavier Mermod

Artist

“We all make choices, but in reality, it’s those choices that make us.”

By becoming a carrier, Xavier finds his way which animates him and which gives him meaning to his body. Optimistic by nature and full of energy, he has always loved humans and for him nothing is better than achieving a goal together that is impossible to accomplish alone. This destiny is due to her meeting with Patricia Minder with whom they will train at the Lyon circus school then at the CNAC.

Réhane Arabi

Artist

“I’m learning to be next to it, to live right in it.”
In the Swiss mountains, she discovered the world of the circus before she was ten.
After finishing her studies in the social field, she decided to pursue her passion: becoming a circus artist.
She entered the Lyon circus school, then continued her training at the CNAC, especially in the air, with the smooth rope.
Throughout this physical curriculum, she has wonderful human encounters that will last over time.
These meetings will give rise to different projects.
She joins the Puéril Péril company, for a project which will give her the opportunity to develop lifts, surrounded by five other artists.
She is also part of a collective of twenty people; “Too Busy To Funk”, which was born from meetings and human adventures between Switzerland and France.