At the age of twelve, Rachid Ouramdane discovered dance through hip-hop. He also took intensive courses in classical and modern dance. In the early 1990s, he dropped out of his studies in biology to devote himself full time to dance and joined the Centre national de dance contemporaine in Angers. As a performer and choreographer, he has worked with Meg Stuart, Odile Duboc, Hervé Robbe, Alain Buffard, Christian Rizzo, Julie Nioche and Emmanuelle Huynh.

Rachid Ouramdane's creations are often marked by the seal of testimony and intimate experience (refugee children, victims of torture or natural disasters, amateur athletes, etc.) from which he weaves a structured choreography. Rachid Ouramdane collaborates with circus artists (Compagnie XY), authors (Pascal Rambert, Sonia Chiambretto), visual artists (Nicolas Floc'h and Mehdi Meddaci), and musicians (Jean-Baptiste Julien and Alexandre Meyer) for his own creations as well as for commissioned works and workshops. With an ambitious project based on diversity and hospitality, he has been director of Chaillot - Théâtre national de la Danse in Paris since April 2021.

Born in 1987, Jean-Camille entered the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse in Lyon in 2006. Specialising in contemporary dance, he tackled the repertory of Odile Duboc, Michel Kelemenis, Pina Bausch, and performed in several productions of the choreographers Julien Monty, Yan Raballand and Nina Dipla. At the CNSMDL, he set out to create and develop his own projects. Ever since he graduated from the Conservatory in 2009, he has also been working for the choreographer Yan Raballand. In parallel, he practices sliding and grip sports like sailing, skiing, climbing, and road longboard. His own company Au Delà Du Bleu was founded in January 2012. He directs artistic projects which combine dance, extreme sports and video. In 2016, he set up ADDB production (specialising in photography, video and aerial images), with the photographer Guillaume Ducreux.

Musician and composer born in 1977, Jean-Baptiste works or has worked with Antoine Antoine Antoine, Pascal Battus, Alex Beaupain, Bertrand Belin, Blast, Yannick Butel, Jean-Marc Butty, Marylène Carre, Arnaud Churin, Thomas Ferrand, Grand Parc, Yves Godin, François Lanel, Fiodor Novski, Katel, Sophie Lamarche-Damour, Frédéric Leterrier, Bernardo Montet, Antonin Ménard, Seijiro Murayama, newpauletteorchestra, Rachid Ouramdane, Palo Alto, Pink Crash, Alexandre Plank, Virginie Vaillant...

Nathan Paulin is a highliner, a modern tightrope walker, born in 1994 and living in the village of Le Reposoir in the French Alps. Passionate by mountains since his youth, he started slacklining in 2011. Finding a real inner peace in this activity mixing intense concentration and body control, his progression is fast, so much so that he is among the best in the world in this discipline since 2013. He now holds a dozen World Records, his longest crossing being a 2240m long highline on the Mont Saint-Michel in May 2022. For various events and shows, he illustrates himself on prestigious French monuments, such as the Eiffel Tower, La Défense, the Palais de Chaillot, the Pont du Gard. Pushing his limits, each time more, is one of the reasons that incited Nathan Paulin to undertake longer and longer crossings. The search for unusual places and the aesthetics of these sites is now his main source of motivation. Nathan Paulin also practices various mountain sports such as paragliding, mountaineering, skiing, biking and trail running. These daily practices in his place of life bring him a primordial balance: a mental and physical preparation fully serving his job as a tightrope walker.

Nina sees climbing as a way of finding truth, facing herself with each move—the good, the bad and the ugly. Growing up on a farm in Switzerland, Nina feels most at home outside, having the sky as her roof and the earth as her bed. As a self-professed ‘bon vivant hippy' she seeks an emotional calling to each project, but don’t for one second think that she is flighty. Nina can be as sharp as a Swiss knife (which is one of her nicknames), efficiently climbing, training hard and expressing herself completely through her spot. She knows what a privilege it is to live a climbing gypsy life, feeling gratitude even on the days she doesn’t send.

After training at the National Circus Schools of Châtellerault and Lomme, where she specialised in acrobatic handstands, Airelle joined the company Le Fardeau for the show L’incident (2004). Co-founder of the company XY that same year, she participated in all their shows: Laissez-Porter (2005), Le Grand C (2009) and Il n’est pas encore minuit... (2014). She also contributed to the work of the company MPTA with on location performances of Utopistes (2011). In 2016, she co-wrote and co-directed Halka, with the Acrobatic Group of Tangier. As an artistic collaborator, she was involved in O let me weep (2018), created by the company Les mains sales. Alongside the company XY, she performed in the show Strach, a fear song (2018) of the Théâtre d’Un Jour. She also worked on the creation of Möbius in 2019, a production of the collective—conceived in collaboration with Rachid Ouramdane—and then joined the artistic team of the Corps extrêmes in 2020.