In the Familiar Faces troupe, there are four, including a girl, a bearded man and a tall blond.
They met at ACaPA, a circus school in Tilburg, the Netherlands.
Legend has it that the Dutch fly, they dive.
Normal for acrobats trained in a country specializing in water, a quarter of which has been recovered from the sea. At the Elbeuf cirque-theater, in Seine-Maritime, a large rectangle has been erected on the stage.
It is completely covered with dark plastic.
In one corner, a bucket into which a hose gently pours water, in a continuous stream.
This gurgling sound of flowing water is the only music in the show.
Slowly, it climbs into the bucket and overflows on the plastic.
For now, the acrobats are operating in the opposite diagonal.
They perform complicated figures of four-person pyramids, taking care to powder their feet and hands with rosin to better ensure their grip.
A powder puff hangs down which they make great use of.
Their pyramids
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