Angélique Cormier - Biography
She has directed shows for indoor stages and public spaces, collaborations with artists and partners in France and abroad : le Tours Soundpainting Orchestra, Walter Thompson (NYC/Suède), Strike Anywhere Performance Ensemble (NYC), POLAU- Pôle Art et Urbanisme (St Pierre-des-Corps) Institut Français (Madrid), Lieux Publics - centre national et pôle européen de création en espace public (Marseille), Mawguerite-Bernardo Montet, Lycée français de Manhattan (NYC), College of the Arts (Singapour), Université de Lille, de Tours, Montpellier, Compagnie Off... She was awarded the "Envie d'Agir" grant in 2009 to create a professional ensemble , the Tours Soundpainting Orchestra. |
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Since graduating in 2001 with a state degree in Music Pedagogy, she has given many workshops and devised pieces with diverse audiences (schools, colleges, middle-schools, universities, professional performing arts ensembles, choirs, orchestras, Ferme de Trielle, CFMI, music schools and conservatories, prisons, medical specialized structures, companies…). |
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In 2010 and 2011, she was the musical director of « Paraboles 2.0 », a show by compagnie OFF, that was performed in Singapore, Tours, and Bucharest. With S. Perrusson, she arranged a Rock version of the opera « Pagliacci « by Leoncavallo, for an adaptation under a circus tent by the Compagnie OFF |
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She created in 2014, with Gregory Mariscal, a "mini-opera", working with schools in Massy and musicians from the Massy Opera. This show was performed again in 2016 with five artists on stage, under the name "Héroïnes". |
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In 2018, TSO and the Strike Anywhere Performance Ensemble (NY, USA) created the French première of the show « Pop Up, an Artistic Treasure Hunt », which received the grant « Ecrire pour la rue » from the SACD (a French organization supporting writers, authors, artists) in 2016, with the collaboration of POLAU-Pôle Art et Urbanisme. In October 2019, the US première of the show was performed by a French-American team in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, with the support of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the US. Since 2014, she has been an Artist-in-Residency in many different cities, both in France (Dunkerque, Lens at the Université d’Artois, St Germain-du-Puy, Sainte-Maure-de-Touraine) and abroad. In April 2019, she was an Artist-in-Residency at the Manhattan Lycée Français. |
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She has also found a means of expression in folded and sculpted paper. Using large formats, she performs regularly in public spaces and on stage. She designed paper sets for shows as for installations. As an artist working with paper, she has been collaborating more and more frequently with musicians, actors, dancers, circus artists, creating props, costumes, stage design. (Cabaret pour les 40 ans d’Adalea, Cirque Galapiat, september 2019/ Les Veilleurs, origami 2.0 with Pierre-Adrien Théo). |
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Between 2016 and 2019, she co-instigates with Walter Thompson and Eric Chapelle a yearly international masterclass entitled the Soundpainting Interactive Conference. She has been invited by Institut Français de Madrid in 2016 to give a conference and a performance with the ensemble Soundpaintingmadrid. In 2019, she co-led the International Soundpainting Think Tank in Madrid, with Ricardo Gassent and Walter Thompson. |
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On February 2020, she was an Artist-in-Residency at the College of the Arts Lasalle in Singapore, to lead the students through the process of a creation named "Walking, a multidisciplinary poem". She is developing a show for public spaces, "Déplier", where she performs with large folded papers and 2 musicians.
In 2023 in Brittany she premiered as a scenographer "Le Roi Découpé", with Cie Les Fées Railleuses. She made the whole stage set and characters in folded paper.
Since 2019 Pascal Lenormand (engineer) et Pierre-Adrien Théo (composer, digital artist) she developed a full project mixing science and art for an Opera about Energy transition, commissioned by POLAU - pôle art et urbanisme, for the 500-year anniversary of Leonardo Da Vinci. The Opera "Poïêsis" was first performed in 2022. The team tours also since 2021 a "conference-spectacle", called Si un watt m'était ôté
In 2023, she has be artist in residency at the Lycee français in New York, to create a show with the 5th grade students around paper, movements. She had two exhibitions and a whole project with people in the Ferme du Vinatier, in Psychiatric hospital du Vinatier (Lyon). She also worked with the University in Lyon to create multidisciplinary show with the students, including folding paper, writing, poetry, music, movements. She's developing a whole concept called the "Manifestation Poetique" with different groups.
Until september 2023, you can visit an installation she created with Pierre-Adrien Théo, digital artist, in Maison Berges, in Villard-Bonnot (38). Also in 2023, she's been invited for a documentary tribute to Marcel Proust, in Venice, where she did an ephemeral installation. In December 2023, she'll conduct a "Symphonie instantanée" in Brest with a symphonic orchestra and a group of improvisers, "Nautilis". More to come for 2023 and 2024 ! |
"Déplier"
"Le Roi découpé", Cie Les Fées Railleuses.
Poïêsis, Avant-première, septembre 2022. Photos : Guillaume le Baube
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