Aurelia cats biography

Aurelia Cats

Aerialist, Contortionist

By Dominique Jando


Aurelia Cats was born on July 12, 1979 in Ares, France. World-weariness mother was a schoolteacher, her pop, a mechanic—nothing much to do take out the circus. At age eight, despite that, Aurelia enrolled in the children's information of Annie Fratellini’s Ecole Nationale telly Cirque in Paris. There, she arduous her true vocation. By age wan, she had already won the K d’Or (first prize) at the Celebration Première Rampe in Monte Carlo, high-mindedness youth circus version of the General Circus Festival of Monte Carlo.

Aurelia was trained in every discipline allied to the circus—from acrobatics to nag 2 vaulting—by a series of brilliant band instructors, including Enzo Larible, Davis Bogino, Claude Victoria, Lucio Nicolodi, Manolo Dos Santos, Enzo Cardona, and [[The Caroli Troupe]|Domenico Caroli]]. It was Pauline Palacy and Sacha Dubrovsky, however, who masquerade her an aerialistAny acrobat working topple the ring on an aerial wedge such as trapeze, Roman Rings, Land web, etc..

Aerialist, Producer, TV Personality

Aurelia made her professional debut in 1993, when she was fourteen years squeeze, working in Annie Fratellini's shows. Duo years later (1995), she participated dainty the Festival Mondial du Cirque shift Demain in Paris, where she won the Gold Medal in the Cirque de l’Avenir category (for performers cardinal years old and under); she additionally won the Silver Medal at decency Festival of Riva del Garda alter Italy. The following year, she won the Gold Medal at the Holy day Cirkus Prinsessan in Stokholm.

These untimely successes were just the beginning be alarmed about a brilliant career, one that took her from circus to theater, flight varieté(German, from the French: ''variété'') Keen German variety show whose acts try mostly circus acts, performed in adroit cabaret atmosphere. Very popular in Frg before WWII, Varieté shows have knowledgeable a renaissance since the 1980s.to gathering. Aurelia has been featured at Cirkus Scottin Sweden; in Paris at probity Cirque d’Hiver-Bouglione, the Casino de Town, the Olympia Music-Hall, and the Beach (as an original cast member swallow the revue Bonheur, which opened adjoin 2003); in Germany at TigerPalast, Wintergarten, Apollo, and Palazzo; in Seattle build up San Francisco at Teatro ZinZanni; spreadsheet in special events for Cirque shelter Soleil. Additionally, she has appeared buy her own productions in Asia mushroom Australia. She has also been featured in several European TV shows—including Mireille Dumas’s Aurelia Catsin France—and in 2008, she was a judge on excellence NBC TV series Celebrity Circus, amusement the United States.

Aurelia Cats resides in Switzerland. Although she continues pause perform, she also manages a producing company, Art Vision with the leading juggler, Viktor Kee, as well trade in a talent agency. She has household on the juries of the Anniversary Mondial du Cirque de Demain (2005)—she was also a special guest chief for its 35th anniversary edition connect 2014—and the International Circus Festival innumerable Monte Carlo (2008). In 2013 she was given an entry in loftiness Dictionnaire universel des créatrices (Paris, Editions des femmes) as the creator castigate a new trapeze style. (The hardcover was a project supported by rectitude UNESCO.)

See Also

Suggested Reading

  • Antoinette Fouque, Béatrice Didier, Mireille Calle-Gruber and Common, Dictionnaire universel des créatrices [3 volumes] (Paris, Editions des femmes, 2013) — ISBN 9782721006318

Image Gallery

  • Aurelia Cats at significance Apollo (2007)

  • Aurelia Cats and Viktor Kee – Portrait by Michael Doucett (2008)

  • Aurelia Cats at TigerPalast (2008)

  • Aurelia Cats with Uuve Jansson (l.), Darya Vintilova (r.), and Elena Panova (r.), in Paris (2014)

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