Following on from the Amour (2023) and Reines (2024) projects, Juliette Guignard, managing director and violist, and Nina Lainville, co-founder and singer for Atelier Misuk, have devised a third transmission program entitled Corps. This new edition is aimed at women in exile, with the desire to explore the theme of the body and the many ways of inhabiting it. How do we look at each other’s bodies? How are they affected by emotions, movement, or the voice? These are some of the questions that guided the design of this immersive project.

Staying for three days at the Ferme de Villefavard in the Haute-Vienne department, the participants discovered this cultural meeting center, its heritage, and its natural environment. Punctuated by artistic workshops, walks, visits, and convivial moments, this stay allowed them to deepen their vocal and physical work, but also to forge strong bonds between the participants and the supervisors.

To carry out this project, Les Surprises was able to count on the support of several partners, including UFOLEP and ANCV, which financed the project and is committed to promoting access to sports and cultural activities, La Ferme de Villefavard, which hosted the workshops and the final presentation, as well as Audacia and Coallia, and the Mission Locale d’Insertion du Poitou, organizations that helped identify and support the participants.

A total of thirteen women, aged 12 to 68 and from Peru, Afghanistan, Syria, Senegal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Tibet, and Armenia, took part in this artistic and cultural education program offered by the ensemble Les Surprises :

• A three-day immersion stay at the Ferme de Villefavard, punctuated by artistic and physical workshops ;
• Moments of heritage discovery and walks in the countryside ;
• The final presentation of the project at the Ferme de Villefavard, open to the public, performed by the participants accompanied by the musicians of the Les Surprises ensemble.

Thanks to the success of Amour in 2023, Juliette Guignard, general director and violist, and Nina Lainville, co-founder and singer for the Atelier Misuk, decided to continue their work with a new projetc called  Reines. It was imagined as a path connecting the queens and queendom thematics with musical practice and the discovery of local heritage. Thanks to all of that, the participants will be able to dive in our history.

In order to complete this project sucessfully, the ensemble Les Surprises surrounded itself with several partners such as Audacia Poitiers, Ufolep ANCV and Ufolep86, the city and prefecture of Poitiers (Contrat territorial d’accueil et d’intégration), the tourism office of Grand Poitiers, the Sainte-Croix museum and the Oiron castle.

About eight participants coming from six different countries were able to make the most of this artistic and cultural education path offered by the ensemble Les Surprises :

• The path is launched by a immersion weekend in the Oiron castle
• About ten workshops of musical practice and cultural visits in three month
• Closing in the Auditorium of the Sainte-Croix museum through a restitution show opened to the public, carried by the participants and musicians of the ensemble Les Surprises

Carried by Juliette Guignard, general director and violist, and Nina Lainville, singer for the Atelier Misuk, this project named Amour was imagined as a path connecting the love thematics with musical practice and the discovery of local heritage. Thanks to all of that, the participants will be able to dive in our history.

In order to complete this project sucessfully, the ensemble Les Surprises surrounded itself with several partners such as the CEMEA Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Buddy-System Réfugié·es, the city and prefecture of Poitiers (Contrat territorial d’accueil et d’intégration), the tourism office of Grand Poitiers, the Sainte-Croix museum and the Oiron castle.

About twelve participants, accompanied by multiple volunteers of Buddy System Réfugiés and members of the CEMEA were able to make the most of this artistic and cultural education path offered by the ensemble Les Surprises :

• The path is launched by a immersion weekend in the Oiron castle
• About ten workshops of musical practice and cultural visits in three month
• Closing in the Auditorium of the Sainte-Croix museum through a restitution show opened to the public, carried by the participants and musicians of the ensemble Les Surprises