Phia Ménard

Phia Ménard (born 11 February 1971 Nantes) is a French juggler, performance artist, and director.[1]

Phia Ménard
Born (1971-02-11) 11 February 1971
Nantes, France
Occupation(s)Juggler, performance artist, director

Biography

Phia Ménard came out as a transgender woman in 2008.[2]

Upset by the show Extraballe performed by Jérôme Thomas (1990), she followed her teaching in 1994, then joined her company for the show Hic Hoc (1995), which she performed. In parallel, she follows in 1997 the teachings of dancer and choreographer Hervé Diasnas, founder of the Presence Mobility Danse.[3] Ménard left the Jérôme Thomas company in 2003. She says of Thomas and Diasnas that "they taught her to walk."[1]

In 1998, she founded her own company, Non Nova, with the ambition according to her to abandon the question of virtuosity to work the defect, far from the circus and the juggling, getting closer to the dance, the theater and the performance. Her transition influenced her artistic career. She began the project "I.C.E." (Injonglabilité complementary of the elements), about the study of the imaginary and transformation and the erosion through natural materials. The first show that comes out of this project on 1 May 2018 is P.P.P. (Position parallel to the floor), whose dominant material is I.C.E.[4]

Works
  • 1998 : Le Grain
  • 2001 : Ascenseur, fantasmagorie pour élever les gens et les fardeaux
  • 2002 : Le Grand Bazar
  • 2003 : Zapptime, rêve éveillé d’un zappeur
  • 2004 : Jongleur pas confondre (conférence-spectacle)
  • 2007 : Doggy Bag
  • 2008 : P.P.P.
  • 2010 : Black Monodie
  • 2011 : Vortex
  • 2011 : L’après-midi d’un foehn[5]
  • 2015 : Belle d’Hier
  • 2017 : Les os noirs
  • 2018 : Saison sèche
  • 2021 : La Trilogie des Contes Immoraux (pour Europe)
  • 2022 : Les Enfants terribles by Philip Glass and Jean Cocteau at the Opéra de Rennes

References
  1. "Philippe Ménard, dit-elle". Libération.fr (in French). Archived from the original on 2018-07-09. Retrieved 2018-05-01.
  2. "Compagnie Non Nova". Compagnie Non Nova'.
  3. "Hervé Diasnas – Micadanses". micadanses.com (in French). Retrieved 2018-05-01.
  4. "Fille ou glaçon, Phia Ménard jongle avec le genre". Le Monde.fr (in French). 20 January 2016. Retrieved 2018-05-01.
  5. Ce spectacle est une adaptation jonglée du Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune de Claude Debussy.

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