Francesca Mari, at 17 began juggling and has since been training through workshops around Europe with numerous international jugglers. Francesca studied clown and physical theatre in Brussels and in Italy with renowned teachers including Micheline Vandepoel, André Casaca, Jos Houben and many others. She works with great passion as a street theatre artist since 2008. She attended in 2013 FLIC Circus School, in Torino, specializing in foot juggling. In her artistic research she aims to explore influences from dance, acrobatics and theatre, researching a juggling which involves the whole body to transform the ‘traditional’ idea of antipodisme.