Angélique Cormier

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

She has directed shows for indoor stages and public spaces, collaborations with artists and partners in France and abroad:  Tours Soundpainting Orchestra, Walter Thompson  (NYC/Sweden),  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, and Compagnie Off.

Maria-Angeles Cuevas

Maria Angeles Cuevas comes from a Spanish family of opera singers.

A graduate of the Haute Ecole de Musique (HEM) of the Geneva Conservatory (piano and musical pedagogy), she has studied with Fausto Zadra (CIEM-Mozart International Piano Foundation), with Victor Merzhanov (Moscow Conservatory) and Jean-Claude Pennetier (National Superior Conservatory of Paris) and trained and developed her vocal skills with Rema Wiser in Holland and Carmen Bustamante in Barcelona. As a multidisciplinary artist practicing live composition with music, dance and visual arts, she has been trained and certified in Soundpainting with Walter Thompson.

In 1997, Maria-Angeles founded the Ars-Musicae music center in Geneva, Switzerland, and in 2009 founded Geneva’s Musica Association, where she serves as President.

On stage, Maria Angeles highlights her origins and roots: from classical music to popular Spanish and Catalan melodies.

She performs and tours internationally with multiple groups, including Tremendo Cuarteto (Spanish classical), Vortice (world music and traditional Catalan songs) and the Swiss Soundpainting Ensemble, which she founded to explore multidisciplinary, live compositions in performance.

Her recent album, “Iberian Dreams,” is available on Spotify and itunes; her upcoming album, “Flamenco de Camera,” will be available in 2021.

www.angelescuevas.com

Typhaine Delaup

Typhaine Delaup is a dancer and choreographer based in London.

As a performer she has collaborated with Marina Abramovic, Josiah McElheny, Pablo Bronstein, Tara D'arqiuan, Leila McMillan, and Vera Tussing, amongst others.

Her choreographic work has been presented in various venues and galleries in the UK, Italy, Norway, Belarus and The Netherlands.

Delaup has worked as movement director for Martin Creed, Tom Lovelace, and JocJonJosch.

Her project Conducting with the Body, with Virginia Scuduletti, adapts the Soundpainting technique to create improvised power dynamics in live performance. Over the last five years they have created two pieces: Curioser and Curioser, and This is it. 

Instagram: TYPHAINE_DELAUP

Nicole Poole

Nicole Poole is a multidisciplinary performing artist, award-winning narrator and curator currently based in Oklahoma City. Her values of compassion and service, combined with her penchant for collaboration and delightful disruption, manifest in pop-up creative hijinks around the world.

Nicole is a core member of the Walter Thompson Orchestra, working with Thompson since 1996 to develop live composition for theatre. She is also one of only a handful of theatre artists worldwide certified in Soundpainting, the art of live composition, created by Thompson.

Nicole’s curatorial work can be seen through the lens of the vast collection of original art she inherited from her late father, O. Gail Poole, with exhibitions of Poole’s work in museums and galleries in the U.S., Italy and Paris.

Her recent project, YOU ARE HERE, a response to the pandemic’s necessitation for limiting gatherings, energized Downtown OKC through nine simultaneous “performance on demand” stations in which one audience member could receive individual performances from over a dozen artists.

Instagram: @wordsmiff405 & @rogueokie

Audrey Vallerino

After studying at the Conservatoire de Nice and the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Lyon, Audrey joined the Ballet de l'Opéra de Nice as a soloist.In 2000, Audrey began to divide her time between France and Turkey to create choreographic works and pedagogy; a state graduate in dance education, she also supervises contemporary dance workshops and Tai Chi courses at Bilgi University in Istanbul. Returning to Nice in 2002, Audrey devoted herself to her activities as a choreographer, dancer, actress, assistant stage director, performer and Soundpainter, collaborating with various musical and lyric theater companies including Auteuil Zéro 4 Virgule 7, Compagnie Humaine, Le Sixièmétage, Théâtredes Cinq Jardins, Collectif La Machine, Compagnie du Dire-Dire, BA .L, Cadavres Exquis, Batik Soundpainting Orchestra and Tours Soundpainting Orchestra. Building upon her expertise in dance, theatre and Soundpainting, Audrey uses techniques and philosophies of diverse physical disciplines such as Tai Chi, Qigong and Tanaka Min manipulations to create unique energetic expressions. She regularly conducts research within the framework of artistic performance and shares her results through workshops and artistic actions in conservatories, high-risk schools and the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis. In 2016, Audrey became certified as a Level II Soundpainter for music and dance; in 2017, she achieved certification for Level II Multidisciplinary. In 2019, Audrey traveled to Brooklyn, New York, to collaborate and perform with the Tours Soundpainting Orchestra (FR) and the Strike Anywhere Performance Ensemble (US) in the groundbreaking, site-specific project “POP-UP.”