Novy – Yvon

Born on September 5, 1996, in Switzerland Yvon discovered and taught himself the
basics of diabolo and unicycle at a very young age. From 2004 to 2014 Yvon trained in different circus schools like Fun’en’Bulle, Arabas Circus and Cirque-en-Ciel where he had a long history. He preferred juggling and acrobatic as principal discipline; fire breathing came a bit later.

Starting in 2015, Yvon took kind of a break with training so he could focus on completing his apprenticeship as office worker, his travel in Australia and his military Service as a hospital solder. Joke on him, He finished his military service as a sergeant. During these two years Yvon had the opportunity to perform for different festivals like the Festival Local, Balalec Festival or for the medieval festival in Montagny-les-Monts. He even performed for the military during his service.

At the end of 2017 Yvon went back to the circus school Cirque-en-Ciel, but as a teacher this time. In addition to teaching he had the opportunity to work as a technician for The Kunos Circus Theater. In 2018 he chose to follow his dream of circus, by training at The Zarti’Cirque in St-Croix. And late in December he performed for the Winter Cabaret of Kunos Circus Theater.

In 2019 Yvon move to Berlin to study in Die Etage. There he is working on Juggling, who remains is main discipline. His second discipline is hands to hands as flyer. With his Partner they also working on what they call Acro-Juggling. During his study he did Stage manager for Die etage Werkstatt and rigging man for the graduation show 2020. Beside his study in die Etage Yvon perform in various places. He Graduated in October 2022.

In 2023 Yvon went for two month in Forsvik, Sweden, working with Smofa on “Kling – A life for Ice-cream. First Rockabilly Musical in Sweden mixing circus to the genre.

In 2024 Yvon Created What The (H)ELLE. A show with 6 Artist mixing traditional and contemporary circus with a touch of theatre. A first showing of What The (H)ELLE was presented on the 31. Mai 2024. During the Summer Yvon work again with Smofa on their new show “ SOT – GJUTROCK”. During this years started also a collaboration with the company Omnivolant with a Corean Craddle Duo.