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Angélique Cormier - Biography

Angélique Cormier, classical trained pianist and singer, is a multidisciplinary show designer, composer, educator, origami designer (for performing arts, installations...) She is the Artistic Director of the Tours Soundpainting Orchestra, which she founded in 2005, and co-director of Les Effets Papillon, a multidisciplinary company, since 2019.

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.

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…).

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

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".

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.

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 and characters for a children's show, Après ma maison de corail, which toured from 2012 to 2015. 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).

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.

With Pascal Lenormand (engineer) et Pierre-Adrien Théo (composer, digital artist) she began writing an Opera about Energy transition, commissioned by POLAU - pôle art et urbanisme, for the 500-year anniversary of Leonardo Da Vinci. The Opera will be premiered in 2023. Until then the team tours a "prelude", a smaller proposition : a "conference-spectacle", called Si un watt m'était ôté

She and four artists coming from Switzerland/Spain, USA, England, France, have joined to form the Kollecti’F, an all-women ensemble, that will create a piece focused improvisation and poetry to be be premiered in University of Geneva in March 2020 for the Week of equality and human rights.

in February 2020, she will be 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". (HERE a podcast to follow up the project)

She's creating a show for public spaces, "Déplier", where she performs with large folded papers and 2 musicians.

In september 2020, she appears in The Oklahoman, about the U.S. VERSION she composed, in collaboration with Nicole Poole, for her piece "On est tout près", written during covid19 lockdown, for isolated people.

In 2020 also, she's first time solicited for a kid's show, "Le Roi Découpé", as a scenographer, with Cie Les Fées Railleuses. She's making the whole stage set and characters in folded paper.

In 2021, she performs the premiere of her new show for kids "Le Concert d'Origami".
In 2021 also, she's invited by Mathilde Van den Boom, actor & writer, to work on the scenography of her new show "Philoskoupidia".