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Margaux Braibant (aka Lila Chupa-Hoops) discovered hoopdance as a simple hobby in 2010, and gradually learned the movements involved in this practice, which involves handling at least one hoop. As this discipline is not widely practised in France, Lila Chupa-Hoops soon began performing on amateur stages and organizing workshops in France to help develop the community of people who practice this object: the hooper-euse-s. While she specialized in military archaeology as part of a master’s degree at the École du Louvre, and is currently working in a Parisian historic monument, she left the museum world in 2013 to devote herself fully to her favorite craft. She co-founded the Hoopera association, dedicated to teaching the hoop, and then the Rendez-v’HOOP France association, an annual convention that enables her to invite French and international hooper-euse-s and highlight the diversity of techniques developed around this object.
At the same time, she pursued a career on stage, developing her acts, which blend different aesthetics from “traditional” circus and cabaret, as well as original techniques. In particular, it mobilizes a range of objects associated with so-called flowart practices. In 2023, she joined the Avec Moi company for a monodisciplinary creation based on the hoop with eight performers.
In order to continue expanding knowledge of her favorite craft, she researches and collects hoop-related stories and images. Her main aim is to share the history of this object which, through the ages, has passed through the hands of children, adults and artists of all kinds.