Sibylle Chenevard, the bookseller of Signelégier who juggles the fire

This is how she discovers the arts of fire: “Fire immediately fascinated me. Nevertheless, It is so intense, almost hypnotic. Similarly, The others transmitted their techniques to me, and soon I was invited to make my first little scenes.”

A very limited environment

At its beginnings. Therefore, the community of fire artists is tiny: “We were barely ten in French -speaking Switzerland.”

It follows some internships with professionals, gaining technique, insurance. However, And trains every day, especially by practicing yoga, which allows it to maintain strength and flexibility. Nevertheless, In 2020, while visiting an exhibition, she met the one who will become her companion. He comes from Tramelan, a village that she did not know. It is there, however, that she gives her first real show, with a friend. And it is there also that she chooses to settle, while practicing her profession in Bienne.

In 2023, sibylle chenevard, bookseller signelégier who a new coincidence: while she was on a walk in Signelégier, she missed her bus. She is looking for a place to wait with her baby. It will be the Vouivre.

“I had a crush on this place and offered my services. I didn’t believe it too much, but a few months later, the boss reminded me.”

Its place in the region

Now. Sibylle Chenevard, the stroll of its stage name, has made a place in the regional artist scene. At the end of June. she participated in the seasonal inauguration of the total house of the artist Augustin Rebette, in Bôle. At the end of August. she ignited the terrace of the 943 bar in Tramelan, before appearing, in December, on the Advent calendar of the Agora association, still in Tramelan.

If she loves to juggle fire. she does not consider making her main activity: “To live it, I would have to turn sibylle chenevard, bookseller signelégier who throughout Switzerland, perhaps even abroad, and it is not compatible with my life as a mom. And then I like my job as a bookseller.”