Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 October 2024
In conversation with Estel Baudou’s performance, artist Phia Ménard offers insights into the key moments of the live performer’s career, from her training days to her international success. Describing herself as ‘undisciplined’, she explains how her work challenges the categories of circus, dance and theatre, in so doing pushing the boundaries of contemporary theatre. It is fitting to end this Introduction with Phia Ménard’s call for the invention of new formats and aesthetics, for the performance of ‘strange things’ and for a form of agitation that ‘feels like love’.
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