Marguerite Bordat & Pierre Meunier
Pierre Meunier began his career by a detour that took him through circus rings, where he first began negotiating with gravity. With lightness in mind, he was already looking for the balance between matter and laughter. Working with the greatest and most demanding clowns and directors, he came to consider the stage as a place to try to reach an active state of dreaming. Once he had the audacity to create his own shows, he therefore decided to increase the number of physical laws with which to play. Those laws of gravity, friction, resilience, order, and disorder change the way we think about other laws, those that preside over the world, our thoughts, and human relationships. Poetic in their rhythm, their action, and the surprises they create, they are at once different and inspired by the expert formulas and experimental processes of the scientific domain, with which Pierre Meunier is as familiar as he is mistrustful of them. Always on the lookout for norms and their dysfunctions, he likes to look at things with fresh eyes and be joyfully surprised by what at first glance seems inert. A scenographer as well as a costume, puppet, and mask designer, Marguerite Bordat has worked with Joël Pommerat, Bérangère Vantusso, Éric Lacascade, Pierre-Yves Chapalain, and Lazare. After joining the Belle Meunière for the creation of Le Tas in 2001, she has become a precious member of the crew; as the look-out, she warns the others of reefs in their way and points to lanes that will allow for reinvention. She now forms with Pierre Meunier the dreamy duo in charge of the conception of their dramatic adventures.
