Teachers for 2026
background, teaching philosophy & personality, specialty
FIFI
Movement and acrobatics have been my language since I was five. After six years of competitive gymnastics, I took a long break — and it wasn’t until my twenties that I discovered the colorful circus scene in Israel, along with the fact that my body still remembers how to move and the joy within it. That realization eventually led me to Carampa Circus School in Madrid, where I specialized in partner acrobatics, teeterboard, and handstands, and formed a female trio with Moran Shoval and Libby Haliday.
In Barcelona, I met Fernando Melki, my partner in both life and acro. Since then, we’ve been training, performing, teaching — and driving each other crazy — while enjoying the journey.
I’ve performed with companies such as Faltan 7, Grop, MESHUBAH, and CÃa. Uno Más, and I’ll soon be performing with UpArte in their upcoming creation.
Together with Fer, we’ve spent over seven years teaching at acro conventions, festivals, and training programs across Europe.
As a teacher, my eye is naturally drawn to the flyer — searching for the right path, shape, rhythm, and state of mind in every movement, but what excites me most is learning how to accompany each acrobat on their own individual path — listening to where they are in their process, and finding together the approach that best supports their growth and the dynamics within their duo/group of work.
ELLI
Elli was born and raised in Bielefeld, Germany, where she first fell in love with circus as a child – youngster. Before committing to it as her profession, she spent a year in South America combining social work and travel, completed a BA in Environmental Science, trained for seven months at the circus school in Beijing, and spent a year in Edinburgh, Scotland.
In 2018, she graduated as a hand-to-hand flyer from SKH in Stockholm, Sweden, and has been working ever since as both a performer and teacher. Elli has collaborated with a variety of companies, mainly in Scandinavia, including Cirkus Cirkör, Kompani Giraff, Kaaos Kaamos, the Royal Theatre of Denmark, and Flow Productions, among others.
Her greatest strengths lie in bringing other people’s creative ideas to life, approaching her work with care, humour and optimism and generously sharing her expertise in hand-to-hand acrobatics with anyone eager to learn.
FER
Fer is a long time circus artist and performer. He has been evolving in the circus world for many years in Barcelona and Europe, working for prestigious companies and teaching in circus schools at a high level.
Fer has been a hand to hand teacher for 13 years. For him, acrobatics and aesthetics comes together combined with hard work. He is passionate about teaching, searching for nuance, always ready with a comment to lighten the mood during a hard training session.
He likes to use any object at his disposal to refine technique and take the body through the right learning path.
Rémy
Rémy is a lifelong circus artist specialized in Acro Portés and Hungarian Bascula.Â
Gratuaded from Pop Circus (Auch) in 1988 and CNAC (Châlon en Champagne in 1992), he has been a professional circus performer, actor and director in the last 30 years and more. There is so much he has to share !
He has been part of the professional circus world since 1991 including joining the infamous Cirque du Soleil, as well as Cirque Plûme and Cie Vent d’Autan, among others.Â
He has also been teaching and training profesionnal circus artists for years for instance being a coach between 2020 and 2024 and CNAC, and other circus schools around the world (Lomme, Bordeaux, Barcelona, Cambodia…)
Notably, Fifi and Fer have been taking classes with him and are super excited to have brought him to the team, knowing his teaching technique and precision.
He is yet to be discovered in our little Acro Convention World and we are very happy to introduce him !
