Member Directory / Individual
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):
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.
Honors
2022 9e place, La Bande Vidéo – En collaboration avec Kamal Hallou
2019 3e place, Concours de sculpture de sable des Îles-de-la-Madeleine
2017 Meilleure installation, Space VJ meeting, Pologne
Shows Available
L’arrivée des opossums
Show / All audiences
Bonne Fortune
Show / All audiences