Phia Ménard / Cie Non Nova [Postponed To 2021] / Saison Sèche

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France National premiere Phia Ménard / Cie Non Nova [Postponed to 2021]

Saison sèche

April

2020

Sat 25

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Making her debut at Rivoli, Phia Ménard presents a telluric ritual, featuring seven women fighting against a closed, regulatory space. After the ice, wind, water and vapour, comes the dry season. 'Saison sèche' is part of the choreographer’s series on matter and its metamorphoses. In natural and bodily phenomena alike, something remains untameable and holds a wish for resistance and freedom. It’s about challenging patriarchal power, breaking with gender assignment, bringing about new gestures, new poetics, which feed imagination and a world to come. Both in her creation process and on stage, the French choreographer draws inspiration from the shrapnel of Antiquity that can still be found in today’s culture, and from Aristophanes’ comedy, Lysistrata, which narrates a battle of the sexes and the outbreak of a sex strike. Bodies rattle under pressure, trapped in an enclosed, confined and sanitised scenery that is also collapsing. Prologue, submission, birth, battle and epilogue are the five scenes of an increasing movement that will literally result in the walls bleeding on all sides and shaking until the ultimate earthquake. Watching Jérôme Thomas’ show Extraballe in 1991, PHIA MÉNARD (1971) felt an overwhelming desire to train in the performing arts, in particular in the art of juggling, so she began training in modern dance, mime and acting, and of course, juggling. In 1997, alongside her work with the company, she took more dance lessons and danced in two short pieces choreographed by Hervé Diasnas and Valérie Lamielle. She founded the company Non Nova in 1998 and created Le Grain. It was with her solo show Ascenseur, fantasmagorie pour élever les gens et les fardeaux, created in 2001, that she first gained recognition and critical acclaim as a creator of performance art. In 2008, her artistic career took a new direction with the project I.C.E. - Injonglabilité Complémentaire des Eléments (Complementary Unjugglability of the Elements), a project consisting of a creative, intellectual and imaginitive approach around the notion of transformation, erosion and the sublimation of natural matter and elements. Performance support

© Jean-Luc Beaujault

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Sat

25.04

22:00

RivoliGrand Auditorium

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Aditional info

• 12.00€ • 1.00h • >16

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• • Composition and dramaturgy Phia Ménard Jean-Luc Beaujault Stage design Phia Ménard Cast (creation and performance) Marion Blondeau Anna Gaïotti Elise Legros Phia Ménard Marion Parpirolles Marlène Rostaing Jeanne Vallauri Amandine Vandroth Soundtrack composition and sound engineer Ivan Roussel Lighting design Laïs Foulc Stage manager Benoît Desnos Mateo Provost Rodolphe Thibaud Costumes and props Fabrice Ilia Leroy Construction and props Philippe Ragot Photography Jean-Luc Beaujault Co-director, administration and production Claire Massonnet
  • Technical director Olivier Gicquiaud Production assistant Clarisse Merot Communication Adrien Poulard Touring coordinator assistant Anaïs Robert Produced by Compagnie Non Nova Co-produced by Espace Malraux Scène nationale de Chambéry et de la Savoie

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