David Menes Rodriguez

Writer | Director | Performer | Educator

David is a multidisciplinary artist whose work expands from small cultural projects and street performance to highly acclaimed theater, opera and circus arts productions around the world.

He graduated as a juggler and clown at Canada’s ​National Circus School of Montreal ​in 2009. This same year he became a member of ​Compagnia Finzi Pasca​, an internationally renowned acrobatic theater company directed by Daniele Finzi Pasca. When not on tour he writes and creates for his Montreal based company ​Cirque H​, collaborates as a director and creator with other companies, performs for private events, and works in circus arts development and educational projects in Canada, Spain and Mexico. Since 2008 David has collaborated with Exeko (a Montreal based social innovation organization), with Cirque du Soleil, and directors such as Howard Richard, Peter James, Rob Tannion, Johanne Madore, Sylvain Lafortune, Veronica Melis, Estelle Clareton, Alain Francoeur.

During the crisis of COVID 19 virus, David writes and shares a micro-tale composed of audio poems for people in need. David is also preparing himself for a next on-line era working specially on two educational projects:

Clown Research Lab for professional stage artists ​(2020) New Circus Dramaturgy for Circus artists ​(2020)

Performance skills: ​Acting, clowning, singing, dancing, juggling and acrobatics (Cyr wheel, aerial, acro-balancing and pole dance).

Spoken and written languages: ​Spanish, French, English, Italian.