L’après-midi d’un foehn [version 1]
Cie Non Nova I Phia Ménard FR
A handful of plastic bags, fans and a performer on stage – that’s all it takes to create a dreamlike and elusive world. In this rare show, part choreography, part visual fable, the force of the wind animates fragile, translucent creatures, plastic bags freed from their immobility.
At the mercy of eddies and whirlwinds, these light, spinning beings appear to liberate themselves, overcoming obstacles to travel, crossing oceans and mountains.
What if we too, feet firmly rooted in the ground, could escape gravity, abandon ourselves to the elusive dance of the air and flirt with the unpredictable? The performance is an invitation to daydream, a ballet where matter and wind are reinvented.
L'Après-midi d'un foehn [version 1], the iconic work from Phia Ménard’s repertoire that won acclaim at the 2013 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, premiered nearly 20 years ago and has been performed more than 2,000 times worldwide. It is the first part of the trilogy Pièces du Vent.
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Concept, writing Phia Ménard
Assisted by Jean-Luc Beaujault
Alternating interpretation Cécile Briand, Silvano Nogueira
Soundtrack creation Ivan Roussel d’après l’oeuvre de Claude Debussy
Alternating soundtrack broadcast Olivier Gicquiaud, Ivan Roussel, Manuel Menes
Puppets: Design by Phia Ménard Production by Claire Rigaud
Co-director, administrator and distribution manager Claire Massonnet
Stage manager Olivier Gicquiaud
The Compagnie Non Nova – Phia Ménard is an associate artist at the TNB, Centre Européen Théâtral et Chorégraphique de Rennes, the Maison de la Danse and the Biennale de la Danse de Lyon, and the Scène Nationale de l'Essonne.
It is a featured artist at the Comédie de Clermont-Ferrand scène nationale
Thanks to Pierre Orefice, the teachers and pupils of the Ecole Gaston Serpette - Nantes (Nursery and Preparatory Class 2008/2009), Pierre Watelet and Mathilde Carton from the Natural History Museum - Nantes, and Pascal Leroux from the Collectif la Valise - Nantes
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