Florence Liard is a certified art-therapy Counselor and a professional certified Coach. Art has always held an important part in her life. What Florence really likes is:
- seeing shy people daring,
- helping people gaining self-confidence,
- allowing people to express their potentials and talents.
Florence Liard accompanies people on the path to their personal and professional self-fulfillment. So a bilingual theater workshop seems to her an ideal way for personal self-fulfillment.
Her artistic path includes, among others:
- Clowning
- Clown therapy for art-therapists by Patrice Colonna d’Istria – ARTEC Ivry, 2015
- ‘Discovering the clown within‘ – Level 1 and 2 – Bataclown, 2013
- Drama:
- Workshop with Bernard Grosjean “Le projet de fiction comme moteur du jeu et de l’animation”, Brest 2019-2020
- Different theatre groups in Toulouse, as Cie du petit matin with Bruno Abadie (Toulouse, 2003-2012)
- Studio Jack Garfein, Paris 1995-1998
- Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, The Summer Workshop RADA, Londres 1996)
- John Strasberg workshops, Paris 1994-1995
- American acting courses, Sarah Eigerman FACT, Paris 1994-1996
- Cours Simon, Paris 1993-1995
- Singing:
- Jazz and Gospel choir with Jo van Bouwel, Châteauneuf-du-Faou since september 2019
- Courses in singing
- Zalie Belaccico, Brest 2018-2019
- Odile Wieder, Montpellier 2010
- Courses in lyrical singing
- Jane Streeton (Londres 1996-2000)
- Yva Barthélémy (Paris 1994-1998
- Dance courses:
- From 2003 to 2016: different ballroom-dance-classes Paris and Toulouse
- Tap Dance, Jacques Bense (Paris),
- Silver medal at the international tap-dance competition, Paris 2003
- Classical ballet from 1971 to 1987
Her artistic realisations includes among others:
- She has been using drama techniques, play-role in her communication trainings, such as public speaking, since 1998.
- Design and animation of a theater workshop about management for the ISAE student integration weekend. Outcome of the workshop: a great show with 50 – students on stage! – Toulouse 2012
- Designing, Writing and production of a short film on the annual evaluation interview (Planète Entreprise) – Toulouse 2010
- Adaptation of Claude Prouvost’s poems “Les Heures de Cristal“, staging and directing – Paris 2000
- As a singer, Concert of classic songs by Gershwin accompanied on the piano by Eugénie Alecian – Paris 2000
- Translator, productor, stage assistant of the Director Peter Oyston for the Barry Fantoni’s play ‘Modigliani, My Love’ 42 performances in English anf French in the Bouffon Théâtre – Paris 1997-199