The Company
Based on their passion for Chinese pole and circus theater, Achille Piot and Theresa Zinser founded their new duo in 2024.
Cie Noire Machine combines circus with pantomime and dance. The result is circus performances for street theater or the variety stage that transport the audience into enchanting stories and take their breath away with skillful duo pole acrobatics.
Theresa Zinser lives in Berlin and graduated from professional circus school with Chinese Pole and juggling. Doing martial arts since her childhood, she started intensive dancing, acrobatics and bodywork in 2015. In her work she focuses into the ensemble and interaction of space, music and movement aesthetics. She was studying economics, china studies and (still) philosophy.
Achille is an actor from Isère (France). He studied theater at the Conservatoire in Grenoble and also at the Louis Jouvet school (preparatory class) in Montpellier. In 2018, he moved to Berlin and discovered Chinese pole. In 2022, he completed training in movement education at Seneca Intensiv in Berlin and in 2023, training in circus arts at the Flic scuola di Circo in Turin. His current work focuses on the connection between physical theatre and vertical pole.