Lucie Bonnet

Lucie Bonnet is a French aerialist and doctoral student in the Performing Arts (specialised in Circus Arts) at Grenoble Alpes University (UMR 5316 Litt&Arts, ED LLSH, France) under the supervision of Gretchen Schiller and Marion Guyez. Her thesis on contemporary aerial practices, which she began in October 2020, relies heavily on her position as a vertical rope practitioner and her close links with the circus world and its know-how. Her doctoral research examines the complexity of the processes involved in creating perfor- mances based on experimentation with aerial materials and aesthetics, leading to a renewal of the technical and physical language of circus forms.