ART DIRECTION, CHOREOGRAPHY AND PERFORMANCE PHIA MENARD
ASSISTED BY JEAN-LUC BEAUJAULT
MUSIC AND SPACE SOUND IVAN ROUSSE L
DIRECTOR OF SCENE PIERRE BLANCHET, RODOLPHE THIBAUD
COSTUMI FABRICE ILIA LEROY
TECHNICAL DIRECTOR OLIVIER Gicquiaud
co-leading, ADMINISTRATION AND DISTRIBUTION CLAIRE MASSONNET
ASSISTANT PRODUCTION CLARISSE MEROT
PUBLIC REPORTS ADRIEN POULARD
ASSISTANT TOURNÉE LARA CORTESI
PRODUCTION OF COMPANIES NON NOVA
COPRODUCTIONDOCUMENT 14 – KASSEL AND LE CARRÉ, SCÈNE NATIONALE ET CENTER D’ART CONTEMPORAIN OF CHÂTEAU-GONTIER
THE NON NOVA COMPANY IS GRANTED BY THE FRENCH MINISTRY CULTURE ET COMMUNICATION – DRAC OF THE COUNTRIES OF THE LOIRE, COUNCIL OF THE COUNTRY OF NANTES, COUNCIL OF THE NATIONAL COUNCIL , DEPARTMENTAL COUNCIL OF LOIRE-ATLANTIQUE, INSTITUT FRANÇAIS AND BNP PARIBAS FOUNDATION
THE NON NOVA / PHIA MÉNARD COMPANY IS CURRENTLY AN ARTIST ASSOCIATED WITH L’ESPACE MALRAUX SCÈNE NATIONALE IN CHAMBERY AND THE TNB, CENTRE EUROPÉEN THÉÂTRALQUE ET
SHOW PLANNED IN COLLABORATION WITH FRANCE ON THE STAGE. FRANCE IN THE SCENE, THE ARTISTIC SEASON OF THE INSTITUT FRANÇAIS ITALIA, WAS CREATED AT THE INITIATIVE OF THE FRENCH EMBASSY IN ITALY, WITH THE SUPPORT OF THE INSTITUTE FRANÇAIS AND THE NUOVO MECENATI FOUNDATION.
national premiere
3 July 2019 at 21.30
duration 1 hour and 30 min
Naples
Politeama Theater
After training in juggling with Jérôme Thomas, in 1998 Phia Ménard founded the Non Nova company. His shows deal with social issues for which he is openly committed: identity, gender, defense of human rights. In this new performance, commissioned by Kassel’s Documenta 14, he responded to the theme proposed by the event: Learning from Athens / For a body parliament.
Ménard builds a life-size cardboard Marshall village: “My maternal grandfather – he says – was a victim when Nantes was bombed by the Allies in 1943. During my childhood, the image and the consequences of the bombs did not seem to me real: they were fantasies, as they were for many children. It was much later, when I realized that we were not going to bring flowers to my grandfather’s coffin, but we were visiting a mass grave, which I understood the terrible infamy of the bombs ». Phia Ménard has also come to terms with the absurdity of the famous Marshall plan: managing the reconstruction following models of prefabricated houses. In this performance, the artist creates a cardboard Parthenon on the scene by herself. Imagine simple and repetitive gestures, like those of a robot.
