You would say this, right?
"Are you from the circus?"
I was born in a circus, but you are born at the hospital
and then you are taken to the circus.
Where you sleep,
the first thing you see when you wake up is the circus tent.
And then you go to the circus and it's like a really big house,
but it's your home.
My mom, my dad,
my sisters and everyone is at the circus,
so you have no reason to go elsewhere.
What would I look for there? I have it all here.
My dad was definitely
a circus artist, a clown, a trapeze artist.
My dad's circus is very small.
It's a family circus
and thank God we never needed more than we had.
My childhood
was beautiful, because...
in the circus ring you aren't working, or rehearsing, or practicing.
You are just playing.
At every moment, it's the place you want it to be.
The first act I did was the Rola Bola.
That was the first one. At five years old.
With discipline, knowing that this is the act I want.
So, it's a Rola Bola act on a flying platform.
With this act I went to festivals
and came here to Cirque du Soleil.
And with this act I've been here in Kurios for...
seven years.
When a company like Cirque du Soleil
lays eyes on you
you realize that you are really doing things the right way.
The most important thing is how you arrive at Cirque du Soleil.
It's really satisfying to be able to say
"What I rehearsed and devoted myself to to achieve this finally bore fruit."
So, my parents are super excited, happy.
When I joined the company and saw their facilities,
saw the circus and the shows they put on,
with all that creation and preparation,
it's something that only Cirque du Soleil has,
to be able to put on these shows with the quality they offer,
and with everything they do, only Cirque du Soleil.
They asked me
what I miss, what else I'd like to have.
My automatic answer at first
was that there was something that...
...was missing.
There's something I need to feel and see, and I don't know what it is.
At Cirque du Soleil
you get up in your apartment
or your hotel room, where you are staying at that time,
you open the door and you are not in a circus.
You are in an apartment or at a hotel.
The sensation of a circus artist
who is used to getting up and opening the tent
or opening the trailer and seeing your home, the circus,
it's like feeling that every time you get up and go to bed
you are in a safe place,
in your environment.
Of course, to my wife, who has always supported me.
My wife, my children.
I love them with all my heart.
Vanessa is...
She's an amazing person in my life.
She's a contortionist.
And she left her act and her contortions to follow me and be with me.
It's working for us, we've done well.
But she knows that we have a project,
that we have some material and a whole circus.
Because I will keep doing this, and she will too, and we love it.
We'll keep doing it with the same passion
we have for our family and our life.
And the magic of the circus continues.