"Anna Vicente and Jérôme Le Baut, who perform the “Statue” body-balancing act, are a couple both on stage and off.
Vicente has been doing gymnastics and Filipino folk dancing since she was a child.
She was initially hired by the Cirque du Soleil as an athletic therapist. She met her husband while they were both on tour with Saltimbanco. After she gave birth to their two children (ages eight and five), she became a “mother on tour with the kids.” Later she began to train for “Statue.” Le Baut, who has been with the Cirque for 12 years, coached her, as he had already performed it with another acrobat.
“We have to really work together and move at the same time to balance,” Le Baut explained. “It’s something that’s not natural.”"
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