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PHIA MENARD
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Phia Menard studied theatre, movement and juggling, and was a member of the Jerome Thomas company before founding circus-theatre troupe Compagnie Non Nova in 1998. It has performed in more than forty countries around the world.
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L'Apres-Midi d'Un Foehn VortexL'Apres-Midi d'Un Foehn
Synopsis:
LIMF 2014 opens with something miraculous. Borne aloft on currents of air, small plastic bags become dancers in an enchanting, performance-art ballet, set to the music of Debussy. Gravity no longer exists and boundless adventures await in this magical, heartwarming show. Take a journey that will fire your imagination! 'Even when Nijinsky himself first danced the title role of Debussy's Faun, it's doubtful that he provoked his audience to the state of wonder that greeted the lead "ballerina" in Company Non Nova's miraculous L'Apres-Midi d'un Foehn. As she drifts upwards on rising currents of air, another dancer joins her, billowed into a pas de deux of comic ecstasy and tenderness. More dancers are thrown into the mix, until there's a joyous corps de ballet of them scudding, twirling and bounding in the air. In a brilliant metaphor of art and the imagination, Compagnie Non Nova make what's essentially a heap of rubbish into an improbably perfect interpretation of Debussy's pastoral score' - Judith Mackrell, The Guardian (on L'Apres-Midi d'un Foehn, Version 1, Edinburgh Fringe 2013)
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part of "The Wind Plays: L'Apres-Midi d'Un Foehn / Vortex
1st Produced:
Platform Theatre, University of the Arts, London 08 Jan 2014
Organisations:
Compagnie Non Nova
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Synopsis:
In this dark companion piece to her enchanting LApres-Midi dun Foehn, Phia Menards Vortex pulls us directly into the eye of a hurricane. The beautiful airborne creatures dancing to Debussys music are replaced here by a storm of demons, as invisible air currents allow a different set of extraordinary characters to fly and float before our eyes. Poetry is created and history told in this startling show about identity. Vortex explores our need to hide under a series of protective layers and our horror as those defences are stripped away.
Notes:
part of "The Wind Plays: L'Apres-Midi d'Un Foehn / Vortex
1st Produced:
Platform Theatre, University of the Arts, London 08 Jan 2014
Organisations:
Compagnie Non Nova
1st Published:
- -
Music:
-
To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies
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Genre:
Mime 50 min
Parts:
Male: - Female: 2 Other: -
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