Team

LIN Cheng-Tsung 林正宗

Company head and director

Born in Tongxiao, Miaoli. With a master's degree in Drama from the National Taiwan University of Arts, he is a contemporary circus performer and creator, and an art educator. Combining traditional arts with the interaction between body, objects and space, he keeps exploring a "Taiwanese circus". As a teacher he has developed art programs built on the solar terms and local elements, at Natural Way Elementary School (Hsinchu), Qinghe Waldorf (Taipei) and the French school LIFT (Taipei).

Valentin LECHAT 陳星樂

Director

Juggling since the age of 11. Graduated from the Arc En Cirque and LIDO circus schools in France, then apprenticed to Jérôme Thomas, father of contemporary juggling in Europe, touring his landmark Cirque Lili. Trained in contemporary dance at the Centre de Développement Chorégraphique in Toulouse, with M. Verdou and Hervé Diasnas (Présence Mobilité Danse).

From 2005 to 2018 he travelled across Asia and settled in Taiwan. In Japan he met the puppet master Okamoto Yoshihiro, whose aesthetics deeply marked his work. In Taiwan he created Faces, Women & Monkeys, Five Hands, Eight Planets and Memories, DELIVRÆNCE 9, taught at the National Taiwan College of Performing Arts, advised the Weiwuying Circus Platform and was artist in residence at Huashan 1914. In 2016 he co-founded Thunar Circus with LIN Cheng-Tsung. In Taiwan he studied Hao Yuan Xian Zong Qigong and was allowed to transmit it in France.

Back in France he keeps developing Thunar Circus and the circus links between Europe and Taiwan, teaches at the Arc En Cirque school (creation, physical performance, juggling, Qigong) and creates with his company THE UNITED ARTISTS (since 2005).