Phia Ménard

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

Biography Phia Ménard came out as a transgender woman in 2008.

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. Ménard left the Jérôme Thomas company in 2003. She says of Thomas and Diasnas that "they taught her to walk."

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 : 2008 : P.P.P. 2010 : 2011 : Vortex 2011 : L’après-midi d’un foehn 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