James Thiérré
James Thiérrée, born in 1974, is the son of Victoria Chaplin and Jean-Baptiste Thiérrée (founders of the renowned Cirque Invisible and the Cirque Imaginaire). As a child, Thiérrée appeared in his parents’ productions and later studied trapeze and acrobatics, violin, and dramatic arts at Piccolo Teatro de Milan and at Harvard University. He appeared in Peter Greenaway’s film Prospero’s Books, as well as in theater productions by Robert Wilson, Beno Besson, and Carlos Santos. In 1998 he founded La Compagnie du Hanneton and began to create his own work. The company’s first production was the enchanting Junebug Symphony (which was presented in New York in 2002), followed by the critically acclaimed La Veillée des Abysses (Bright Abyss).