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Juggling, as a circus discipline, holds a special place in Christian Coumin’s professional career. This is borne out by his thirty-year commitment to the Toulouse Lido – recently renamed ÉsacTo’Lido (Toulouse-Occitanie circus arts school). Since the turn of the 1990s, he has run acrobatics, juggling and balancing classes, been in charge of the amateur sector and helped write the school’s pedagogical project. When the professional sector was created, he set up the research workshops, acted as a pedagogical and artistic referent, directed the creations of the first, second and third years of the Lido, and was also artistic director of Studio-PACT, for which he oversaw numerous creations.
Christian Coumin performed mainly in public spaces in the 1980s. He is a founding member of the Pince Lune et Gratte Cul company and of the Vidéo-clowns duo, which toured the world from 1990 to 2004. Since 1994, he has directed and contributed to the creation of some forty works. Among the thirty or so involving juggling are the Acrostiches shows since 1995, Le p’tit bal perdu (Triplex, 1996), Visa pour l’amour (Vis-à-vis, 1998), Ici-bas (Des Pas en rond, 1999), IJK (compagnie 111, 2000), La monstrueuse parade (Remise à 9, 2002), Quelle émotion(?) (Alex Saintin, 2002), Le Petit Travers (Collectif Petit Travers, 2003), Batjong (Les Singuliers, 2005), Court-miracle (Le Boustrophédon, 2006), Opéra pour sèche-cheveux (Blizzard Concept, 2013), LAZUZ (2017) and, most recently, le bruit du dedans (Schtock/Eric Buron, 2024).