2025-2026 Program

The Artist in Residence Program inspires creativity in our students through weeklong workshops with renowned artists working in many fields.

Students across one grade work with an artist on a single project, which is performed or exhibited for the entire community. The arts, whether music, visual arts, dance or theater, hold an important place in the lives of students at the Lycée Francais de New York. The Artist-in-Residence program further supports our other classroom and co-curricular activities in the arts and plays an essential role in the mission of the school.

2025-2026 Season

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Lucie Tiberghien - Molière meets languages (Y10)

Lucie Tiberghien, director and founder of Molière in the Park in Brooklyn, will direct 10th grade students in a Molière play that will be performed in French and English. This residency will allow students to take over the stage of the Lycée auditorium and explore the nuances of translation and the richness of theater in both languages.
A unique immersion in classical theater revisited.

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Karine Bernadou - Beloved Monsters (Y8)

Karine Bernadou is a French illustrator and author of graphic novels and comic books. Her albums, from La femme toute nue (Sarbacane, 2007) to Canopée and Azolla (Atrabile), explore a dreamlike, vegetal, and phantasmagorical universe, permeated with feminist questions and often almost silent.
She will lead a multilingual residency with 8th graders on the theme of monsters.

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Compagnie Pyramid - Sous le poids des plumes (Y5)

For 25 years, the Pyramid Company, based in Charente-Maritime, has been offering hip-hop shows that incorporate mime and object theater. The company has also founded a dance school, Pyramid School, which counts more than 250 students.
Choreographer Fouad Kouchy, assisted by another dancer from the company, will teach their youth show Sous le poids des plumes (Under the Weight of Feathers), which will be performed by the students in front of parents and the Lycée community during the final showcase.

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Soledad Bravi - Everyone's a critic (Y3)

Known for her iconic sketches of slender Parisian women for Elle magazine, Soledad Bravi is first and foremost an author and illustrator of children's books, whose young readers are delighted by her simple lines and bright colors.
Soledad will ask third-grade students to draw their reviews of the books and movies they've studied in class... in their own unique way!

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Pascale Luce & SonYa - Fairy tale popping (Y1)

Popping is a street dance that originated in California in the mid-60's. Its very playful technique is characterized by the sudden contracting and releasing of muscles to create a "pop" or "hit" effect, synchronized with the beat of the music. Students will learn to control their muscles, mimicking stop-motion animation, using "roboting" (jerky, robotic movements) and "locking" (freezing mid-movement).
Students will draw inspiration from European and American fairytale characters to give life to them through dance.

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SCIENCE IN THE MAKING - Maxime Blondeau - Mapping an imaginary world (Y7)

New program!
Seventh graders will create a map of imaginary worlds inspired by their favorite works of fiction with Maxime Blondeau, pioneer of an innovative ecological philosophy that offers a new technological perspective on the territory.
This new program is based on the philosophy of quests, at the crossroads of science and art, and will be accompanied by geography and math teachers.
Join them on Friday, November 7 at 4 p.m. in the cafeteria to discover the results of their work!