Pierre Philippe-Meden
Pierre Philippe-Meden is a lecturer and researcher, and a senior lecturer in circus studies (history and aesthetics), in the Department of Theatre and Performing Arts at Paul-Valéry University in Montpellier. As a member of the research unit “Representing and Inventing Reality: From Romanticism to the 21st Century ”, his work focuses on the techniques, aesthetics and representations of the body from the perspectives of ethnoscenology and the epistemology of the body throughout the history of the arts and the performing arts (circus, dance, theatre).
He has also taught the anthropology of bodily practices, the history of physical education, hygiene and health at the Faculty of Sport at the University of Artois, at the UFR-STAPS of Claude-Bernard University Lyon 1 and on the Teilhard de Chardin programme at the Cergy School of Sport Professions (ILEPS).
He runs the blog Scènes et incarnations de l’imaginaire.
His major publications include: [with C. Dezès, C. Jacquelin] Autour de Johann Le Guillerm, Montpellier, SHA2Cirque, Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée, Circus sciences series, no. 4, 2023, 215 pp.; The Obscene in the Performing Arts at the Avignon Festival, in Peter Frei and Nelly Labère (eds.), The Obscene: A User’s Guide. Untimely Considerations for the Contemporary World, Pessac, MSHA, “PrimaLun@ 16”, 2022, pp. 55–65; [with P. Warnery] “Marie France or the Marilyn of the Mugler-Follies fashion show-performance”. Revue d’Études Culturelles, 9: “Playing Marilyn”, 2022, pp. 41–51.
Other publications here.