Morgan Cosquer
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Name: Morgan Cosquer
Country: France
Age: 32
Favorite prop: balls
Started Juggling: at the age of 20
Currently working on: synchronized stupid tricks with two balls.
Website: www.morganetcie.fr
Short Bio:
I was born in 1977 in Paris but my parents had the good idea to move to Brittany. Ah the sea side and the girls… it was for one of them that I touched juggling balls for the first time. We stayed together for two months, then she took her balls and left. A year later I found a book about juggling tricks which made me run and get the necessary equipment, and my life really took a turn. I stopped my studies, found soul mates and soon thereafter organised a juggling convention in Brest.
With time I got more and more interested in the stage and I spent a year at the theatre conservatory in Brest before I passed the qualification to the Lido circus school in Toulouse. I was 24 at the time! Two years of formation in circus acrobatics and the consequential injuries, juggling and other clowneries before I was released to the wide world. Luckily I was not alone, we were five of the same year, and our company Sacékripa was born! It was the start of a beautiful adventure – and I was 26…
We took planes, boats and lorries, we had accidents but we continued to perform. First we played the streets with “Tourne Autour”, then the theaters with “Who Goes On?” (prize « Jeunes Talents Cirque » 2004).
At the age of 28 I dusted my old chair, sat down on it and resumed the work on my solo and with my feet and hands and balls. And in January 2008, an old dream of mine came true: I had the opportunity to perform at the festival mondial du cirque de demain. All went very well, and even better than that because I won the silver medal, le prix Arte and 5 other prizes! What a bliss!
In February 2009, the members of Sacékripa created a new circus show for the stage called “Coulisses” and hopefully the clowneries are to be continued – I have reached the age of 32..
Defining moment in my juggling history: there once was this girl with two blue eyes… and three balls…
Favorite Cereal: buckwheat, the basic cereal of the « galette » speciality of Brittany
3 things you didnt know about me:
1. I did a lot of club swinging when I started to juggle.
2. i have never managed to get through my act without dropping a ball in rehearsal, but i succeeded once in a live performance.
3. I am nervous before every show. Sometimes I am so nervous that I even wonder why I do this job.
If I werent a juggler, I would be: I’d be an archaeologist , or a writer, or a history teacher
Time it took me to learn 5 balls: I don’t remember exactly, maybe 5 or 6 months to juggle for 30 seconds. In the beginning I was juggling 5 balls only in multiplexes, I didn’t know it was possible to do a cascade. At that time internet wasn’t so developed yet, and it took me a few months to meet jugglers, and even longer to meet jugglers who were able to juggle 5 objects.
Is juggling sport or art? i consider it art most of the time, but sometimes it feels like sports, and it is real bliss when it happens: I don’t think of anything it’s mere physical exercise and I’m nicely exhausted at the end of my session.
If I were a juggling equipment, I would be: I’d be a silicone ball.
Jugglers in my family: Nobody.
I taught my brother and he was able to do a few tricks with 3 balls, that’s it, he never got the fever.
Juggling equipment that has not been invented yet: hot steamy plugged-in pressing irons…
Famous juggler i’d love to pass with: Bobby May, Francis Brunn…
Wes Peden, Jérôme Thomas, Sander de Cuyper, Eric Longequel, Matthias Romir, Maksim Komaro…
After the invention of a time machine – what advice would you give to your younger self?
to really believe that anything is possible in juggling.
