Past editions artist

Blizzard Concept

On our stage at:

2018

Blizzard Concept is a French contemporary circus company built on the significant manipulation of insignificant objects. In their world no object is under-used, every scientific law is reinvented as a circus tool, and magic happens when rationality runs out of breath. Their show "Opéra pour sèche-cheveux" (Opera for a Hair Dryer) unsettles every certainty about gravity: easy and deep, intellectual and primitive, relaxing and explosive, sublime and stupid all at once.

On stage are Antoine Terrieux, a juggler and magician who moved from the diabolo to conjuring, trained at Le Lido in Toulouse and at the CNAC in Châlons-en-Champagne, and Julien Mandier, a juggler, clown and stuntman who spent four years of his childhood travelling with the Alexis Gruss Circus. Their partnership was forged after two years of intense training at Le Lido and eight months of shows across Israel, Uruguay, Argentina, Chile, Bolivia and Peru. For them circus is a language: inventing it fascinates them, distorting it drives them crazy.

Audiences at the Masters of Magic Convention laughed and marvelled with them in 2018.

This page is part of our historical archive: it tells the story of the PAST editions. The 2027 cast is revealed one name at a time on the Artists page.