Acro Travel Life | Scott | Michaele

Scott and Michaela teach acrobatics and don’t like talking about themselves, especially in the 3rd person. However they realise this isn’t particularly useful for someone deciding whether or not to attend one of their workshops…

Also known as Acro Misco, they have been doing acrobatics for over a decade. Before they began their glorious partnership, Scott spent his free time pretending to be Spider-Man and Michaela was a cheerleader until she realised that Scott was the only person she wanted to throw her around.

Living in Manchester UK without a regular coach, the self taught duo have developed a unique style of training, namely learning all the ways not to do things so that you don’t have to. They’ve spent the last few years travelling far and wide to learn from the best teachers around to keep developing and learning.

Over the last decade Misco have been building up the acrobatic community in their home town of Manchester and now they want to spread their acro love around the world.

Ellen & Killian are a fun and hard working hand to hand duo, with Ell Circo D’ell Fuego in Antwerp as their home base.
They have been training together since 2017 and started teaching a weekly class about a year later. 2 years ago they worked on a group performance and tasted the artist life a bit, but they feel most comfortable in their teacher roles.
They both have a background in gymnastics, giving them a wholesome understanding of many important details which often get overlooked.

Ellen has been a teacher for as long as she can remember. She started teaching gymnastics when she was 16 and worked as a teacher and coach for the past 14 years.
Her creative mind and drive to learn make her classes challenging and fun. She also built up the existing acro community in Antwerp and loves organising jams, classes and events.

Killian's teaching experience is focused on helping individuals with learning new tricks.
He works in ICT, giving him the ability to analyze details. He uses this quality in acrobatics by intelligently finding what makes a trick work or fail while teaching and training.
Killian is also a very great logistic support.

Wilko | Marieke | Tête-bêche

Wilko Schütz was born in Germany and has been an enthousiast about partner acrobatics from a very young age. Initially he started out as an autodidact with his two brothers which brought him to a children and youth circus where he received intensive training from experienced coaches. His passion for acrobatics continued and here he laid the foundation for static and dynamic partner acrobatics at a high level. Next to his own training schedule he became a regular teacher in several circus- classes and camps. It was only after completing his studies in Mechanical Engineering that he decided to go to a circus school which he completed successfully in 2017 with a hand to hand number. Since then he is working as an acrobatic trio together with David and Marieke.

Marieke Thijssen as well from The Netherlands started as a 12 year old girl in the youth circus. After finishing her education in Visual Arts she missed the physical trainings and decided for the professional education as an circus artist. In her third year she med David and they started working together as a Hand to hand duo. Graduating in hand to hand in 2016 as a flyer she continued her life as a cast member of a touring theater show based on dance and circus. One year later she forms an acrobatic trio and continues working in the same field.

Formed in 2017 as a result of mutual work and love towards this discipline by Jelena Kikic and Nenad Savkovic. NS Acrobalance respresents what we aim to have more in life - a way to play with others, learn new skills and express ourselves in a creative way.

Pacôme | Caroline | Duo d'acro

Paulo

He is 32 years old, very active since young age he grow up in Lamego, Portugal where he practiced handball sport since early age, Paulo and his team won some trophies in the national championship.

Afterwards, he joined the army for 7 years, he got to be the responsible of the physical training of the soldiers. Once finished his service, he moved to Brussels and he got introduced to Acroyoga.

Since then he has been consistently training, participating and teaching in all international festivals he can.

Completed his teacher training in Bali 2020.

Paulo is seduced by the fun, the complicity and infinite possibilities in acroyoga and acrobatics.

Julia

Zinzi & Evertjan are a Dutch/Belgian hand to hand duo. They graduated from Codarts/ACAPA (taught by Wybren) and have been performing for 10 years now. They’ve worked a lot with their act, in cabarets and with for example 7 fingers.

They also enjoyed various small projects, working with live music and performing on the streets. Evertjan was a base in banquine before and they have a lot of experience in group work as they’ve been with compagnie XY for 5 years. They recently founded their own collective Common Ground.