AURÉLIA THIERRÉE & VICTORIA THIERRÉE CHAPLIN

BIOGRAPHIES

 

Director and creator Victoria Thierrée Chaplin is one of the many daughters of Charles Spencer Chaplin. Soon after she was born in California, her parents emigrated to Switzerland, where she went to school and studied music and dance. 

In 1970 Victoria Thierrée Chaplin joined up with actor and director Jean-Baptiste Thierrée, who was dreaming of a new style of circus and invented Le Cirque Bonjour. The following year Le Cirque Bonjour was invited to the Festival d'Avignon and toured France with Victoria's increasing participation.

Some years later the couple moved towards a more personal approach of the world of circus creating Le Cirque Imaginaire featuring themselves and their two children Aurélia and James. In 1990 Le Cirque Invisible was created and toured internationally.


 

 

Aurélia Thierrée has been performing on stage since her early childhood in both Le Cirque Imaginaire and Le Cirque Invisible. From these experiences, she now leads her audiences into a surreal world full of fantasy. 

Her background also includes film work with Milos Forman, Coline Serreau, Amos Kollek, and Jacques Baratier, and she has worked for David Leveaux and Elizabeth Ashley. 

Recently, Aurélia Thierrée has been touring with the Tiger Lillies Circus.