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Mélina Kerhoas

Occupation:

Puppet designer, Artistic director, Manipulator, Puppeteer, Stage director, Sculptor

Services Offered:

Conception & fabrication, Interprétation & manipulation, Cultural mediation, Production of puppet shows for adults, Production of puppet shows for young audiences, Restauration & réparation

Specialty, Field of Activity:

Puppet design and construction, Handheld puppet , Rod puppet, Miniatures, Sculpture, Street theatre, Shadow theatre

Associated Show(s):

L’arrivée des opossums

Contact Details

melina_kerhoas@hotmail.com
subvertige.ca

Description

Interdisciplinary artist with a background in visual arts, Mélina Kerhoas develops a practice at the crossroads of shadow theatre, puppetry, and social art. She holds a degree in Sociology (2015) and in Contemporary Puppetry Theatre (UQAM, 2021), and designs, sculpts, and performs puppets of all scales.

Her early creations, rooted in optics and low-tech projection, transform found objects and raw materials into luminous compositions that reveal their narrative and symbolic power. This research has since expanded towards more classical puppetry, public space performance, and Lambe-Lambe miniature theatre, notably within the collective Les Cabinettes.

With Les Tyroliennes saint-jambiennes, she co-created La montée des eaux (2020), an immersive journey blending fiction and documentary around a post-apocalyptic utopia. Since 2022, she has also co-directed Subvertige with Cloé Lapointe, a duo exploring sidewalk poetry at the intersection of puppetry, clowning, and street arts, with creations such as Nugget and Foggy Fortune.

Convinced that creation is a space for encounter and transformation, Mélina also develops cultural mediation projects and participatory workshops where everyone is invited into creative expression.