LA GROSSE ORCHESTRA

Mademoiselle ORCHESTRA presents

JACQUELINE CAMBOUIS COMPANY

A great show of music, theatre and dancing!

The Big Orchestra

Summary

Creation 2016: The Big Orchestra- presentation- repertoire- timetable- the team - the participants

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Jacqueline Cambouis Company - introduction and history

Who are the Mademoiselle Orchestra ?- presentation- pitch- press cuttings

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The Jacqueline Cambouis Company was created in 2001, following a meeting by four Angevin artists united by a passion for theatre and for music.The quality of their creations has led them to perform both at a national and a European level.Their shows combine comedy, music and humour, sharing some intense moments and creating a real rapport with the audience.

2002/2006 : Les Fifilles font du Firk (“The Girls do Firk”)This first show would take the form of a street show, based on clown games and aerial acrobatics on an 8 metre high py-ramid-like crossbar. Released by the Jo Bithume Company, the show was played around fifty times in Europe.

2005/2008 : Sept et demi (“Seven and a half”)This creation would take the form of an in-door show, co-produced and co-directed by the Jo Bithume Company, with a quar-tet of musicians: the Strada Quartet. The artists explored the music of Nino Rota and played numbers of circuses and video projections.

2007 : Mademoiselle OrchestraA dramatised brass band by eight crazy girls. They traverse France and Europe to great success with their prams and their pushchairs!

2010 : Noël Givré (“Frozen Christmas”)Winter brass band with four comic actors and musicians : Pierre-Noël, Guy-Noël, Noëlle and Marie-Noëlle.

2011 : Mademoiselle Orchestra at the theatreAdaptation of the Mademoiselle Orches-tra show for theatre.

2013 : Le "Vipères Assassines" fan club (The “Deadly Vipers” fan club)Musical show, on the streets and indoors. Members of the fan club perform an inau-

gural show in honour of their idol, Quentin Tarantino.

2014 : Allez les filles !Four singers play rock and swing and toy around with their audience’s mood in an intimate setting or to anyone who would listen: in the streets, under a porch, in a hallway and from table to table.

2016 : La Grosse Orchestra (“The Big Or-chestra”)Tea dance show, with an even larger group, as the eight members of the Made-moiselle Orchestra decided to bring their friends along too.

Jacqueline CAMBOUIS Company

History :

Who are the Mademoiselle Orchestra ?

The pitch :

The Mademoiselle Orchestra is a women’s brass band created in 2008, comprising of eight comic actor musicians. Since its début, this thea-trical brass street band has played around 300 times on the streets and indoors, in France and abroad: in Germany, Spain and Switzerland. They play just as raucously at festivals as they do at village fairs or private parties.

In 2011, the team created a theatrical version featuring a ninth member, Carole, in turn, a sta-ge manager and musician.

On the streets, their repertoire of two hours is spread over a day in two sets lasting one hour or three sets lasting forty minutes. From a technical viewpoint, the show is self-contained, and the amps are battery-powered. A battery microphone is also installed for vocals and the speaking parts. The equipment is trans-ported in prams, pushchairs and shopping carts by the orchestra members.The installation of instruments and sonorisation is done live and on show, and done quickly.The show is played on a set and acoustically.

“Being fed up with the day to day !For several months, coloured shadows, set like clockwork to music, furtively make their way along the yard of Building C and are wending their way towards the garage...

From a few wrong notes and dissonant sounds, little by little, the hubbub of these beginnings started to take shape and become music. All that remains to be said is that this fad has indeed become a reality!Thanks to the impetus of their group leader, Madame Liénard, these determined neighbours have dug out some waltzes from their closets along with tangos, rock, funk and even disco pieces with just one goal in mind: becoming fullyfledged outdoor ladies of life!”

Press cuttings :

Zoom la Rue :“They have produced an excellentperformance in great comic art and fine quality sound, because it is clearly street theatre that is verywell disguised as a brass band. Complete with sound system, drums and other instruments, all brought along in small pushchairs, this Company is a very mobile combo that can set up anywhere and in any public space. They feature characters with some very strong personalities, played by female actresses who have perfectly mastered the full range.”

Presse de la Manche :Breathtaking girls“Yesterday afternoon, an air of infec-tious madness settled on the Law-ton-Collins dock, and then a little la-ter at Place de Gaulle...

Eight girls offered up a musical and theatrical anthology to an audience that howled with laughter. Mademoi-selle Orchestra may well be just as effective as all the anti-depressants in the world. They showed us how to move, hollering and creating surpri-se with great panache and intellect. But make no mistake, to be success-ful in being as crazy as they are, you have to be fantastically talented with your instrument... Ladies, thank you! If having the giggles is the equivalent of eating a steak, then yesterday we devoured an entire cow! “

La Nouvelle République :They’ve scored quite a hit!“Yesterday, we wagered that theeight women of the Mademoiselle Orchestra had landed the unofficial audience award. Coming in their hun-dreds to the town of Saint Varent, the festival-goers enjoyed a show that held them spellbound from start to finish. Crazy choreography, witty

repartees: the Jacqueline Cambouis Company offered a damned slick number. But these artists are above all talented musicians. Each brought her own contribution in her own way, revisiting an extraordinarily wide re-pertoire of rock, funk and even tango pieces! Rip-rollicking rocking thun-der!”

Le Courrier de l’Ouest :“Mademoiselle Orchestra, a band consisting of eight women brimming with talent and humour, has brought the realm of amateur musicians into a clown-like universe : “Fed up of the day to day!”, they cry, while firing up their “whirlwind of life”, scrat-ching out some compositions to the audience’s great delight. These seasi-de girls are a great bunch... The set is a real stress-reliever: their expres-sions, outfits, costumes, make-up, imagination, music, but of course! It’s such an enjoyable and wonderful spectacle!”

The Big Orchestra

« Here it is, the newsflash is here: from March 2016,

Mademoiselle Orchestra will be showing off

...

their Tea Dances!

Madame Liénard, leader of this group, with her sidekick

Chantal, have won you over!

And they have not done it in half-measures!

Many have been enlisted and in total there will be thirteen on

stage to perform all the music that you love!

Down with rock’n roll and primitive music!

Long live waltzes, tangos, mambos and other cha-chas!

So don’t delay, come and shake about to the lively rhythms

and tempos of this flamboyantly colourful orchestra! »

For this new set-up, The Big Orchestra will play on stage, before a standing audience.The main idea is to give a large part to the participation of the audience, making people play silly games, inviting them to dance or sing along.

- Sway Rumba- Besame Mucho Boléro- Stairway to Heaven Slow Rock- Yolanda Cha Cha- Jungle Boogie Funk- Tango Tango

- Shame Shame Shame Disco- Eternal Flame Slow- Billie Jean Pop- Piensa en Mi Slow- Ça fait rire les oiseaux Zouk- 99 Luftballons Pop

- Oye como va Cha Cha- L’Indifférence Valse- One Step Beyond Pop- Think Rhythm and Blues- Laisse tomber les filles Twist- I got a woman Rock

Repertoire :

With a repertoire that is just as eclectic: we will be playing pieces that are typically found in tea dances, waltzes, tangos, mambos and many more, along with some pieces that are more akin to rock, pop or funk!

Timetable :

For this new project, we are planning several weeks of collaborative creations during winter 2015-2016, with a view to a first night in May 2016.

After some individual sight reading of selected pieces, we will work together for:- One week (5 days) with the thirteen musicians.- One week with tutelage from a musician, Ludovic Rivière.- Two weeks with our director, Christophe Andral.(director of Mademoiselle Orchestra in its original form).

The band will be expanded, composed of thirteen

women, all as musicians as comic actors:

Sylvie Daguet: drums

Géraldine Afchain: electric bass

Mathilde Barraud: electric guitar, transverse flute

Elisabeth Paniez: alto sax

Isabelle Osmas: soprano sax, vocals

Véronique Lejeaille: trumpet

Nastasia de Geer: trombone

Estelle Gauthier: tuba

and

Alexandra Bourigault: alto sax, vocals

Frédérique Espinasse: tenor sax, baritone sax

Emmanuelle Ruault: soprano sax, vocals

Vanessa Grellier: percussion, vocals

Emmanuelle Bouriaud: viola

13 Musicians / Actors :

The team :

Sylvie Daguetcomic actor, drummer and tapdancerAfter several years studying percussion and drums in particular, this native of Le Mans is just as passionate about tap dancing, which she practices with several associations. She has starred as a comic actor and drummer inMademoiselle Orchestra since the start of

the adventure in 2008, and in Jacqueline Cambouis Company’s latest creation: the “Deadly Vipers” fan club. She has also been a tap dan-cer and xylophonist in the experimental group Mentat Routage since 2005.

Géraldine Afchaincomic actor and bassistHaving taken the acting training course in 2001 and then in 2003 at the circus and street art school of the Jo Bithume Company, in 2001 she co-founded the Midi 12 company,

for whom she is a comic actor and bassist in La Fanfare Electrique. She writes and acts as a comic actress, releasing “My well-being in everyday life” from 2002 to 2006. Since 2008, she has been a co-mic ator and bassist in Mademoiselle Orchestra and in the “Deadly Vipers” fan club. She has also worked as a comic actor at Mozaique (a daycare facility for adolescents at the Poitiers University Hospital Centre) and at the medical and psychological centre.

Mathilde Barraudcomic actor, flautist and guitaristShe completed her studies in transversal flute at the conservatory, obtained a music technician diploma, a General Academic Stu-dies degree in musicology and obtained her

university musician diploma. She has starredas flautist, guitarist and comic actor in the Mademoiselle Orchestra since 2008 and in the “Deadly Vipers” fan-club. At the same time, she is also a participating musician at the paediatric ward at University Hospital Angers with the Appels d’Air association. She is also a musi-cian and comic actor in a show for toddlers: “Over time”.

Elisabeth Paniezalto saxophonistEclectic musician and member of the Ma-demoiselle Orchestra since 2012 as a young ecstatic saxophonist, Elisabeth Paniez has

also been active on the Nantes jazz scene with her trio Ujie and the Vendée Jazz Orchestra, that played at the Rendez-Vous de l’Erdre festival in 2014. She also plays with Traxs (a saxophone trio) and the Vintage Swing Orchestra (a dance orchestra playing music from the 1930s and 1940s).

Isabelle Osmascomic actor and soprano saxophonistShe founded the “Trombines à Coulisses” (“Faces in the wings”) burlesque theatre company in 1993, for whom she acts and sings. In 2001, she co-founded the Jacqueline Cambouis Company where she worked as a

comic actor and musician (clarinet and saxophone) in several crea-tions including Mademoiselle Orchestra following its inception in 2008. She played in “Sakabul”, “Fabul” and “l’Epopée Loupée” by the Trombines à Coulisse company. She also threw herself into produc-tion with Mr Barnabé by the Mélomaniaque Company.

Véronique Lejeaillecomic actor and trumpeterHaving taken part in an acting training course at the Jo Bithume circus and street art scho-ol, she joined the Jo Bithume band during its early years back in 2000 until 2008, as a

comic actor and playing trumpet, an instrument that she worked on simultaneously. In 2001, she co-founded the Jacqueline Cambouis Company, where she performs as a comic actor, circus actor (trapeze artist) and trumpeter: The Fifilles font du Firk, Sept et demi, fancy on the music of Nino Rota, Mademoiselle Orchestra, the “Deadly Vipers” fan club and Noël Givré.

Nastasia de GeertrombonistA trombonist since the age of 10, Nastasia has also played in bands, to supplement her pro-fessional activities. After many years working in the field of film production in Paris, Nas-

tasia started waltzing every day when she moved to Nantes in 2014. Somewhere along the way she met the Mademoiselle Orchestra, who offered to listen to her abilities, and she was a real godsend!

Estelle Gauthiercomic actor and tuba playerHaving trained as a comic actor at the Las-saad school in Brussels from 1999 to 2001, she played for several companies, the Bim-berlot Theatre, Organik Company, the Dé-

saxé theatre and in 2008 she joined the Jacqueline Cambouis compa-ny for the shows: Mademoiselle Orchestra, Noël Givré, the “Deadly Vipers” fanclub, in which she also played the tuba, an instrument that she has been playing since 2005.

Alexandra Bourigaultsinger and alto saxophonistShe has been singing in an Angevin modern music group “Rutabaga” since the age of ten. She has also been a backing vocalist in seve-ral albums by the “Zicabilo” band. She played alto sax in the Jo Bithume Band until 2014

and in the “Boîte de rue”/“Street Club” electro show by Jo Bithume company. She is a singer in Allez Les Filles!

Frédérique Espinassecomic actor, tenor et baritone saxophonistProfessional musician since 2003, she has played several shows by Jo Bithume Com-pany, (the Jo Bithume brass band), the “Reel Rounds”, “Street Club”, the “Reel Quartet”) as comic actor and saxophonist (alto, tenor). Since 2007, she has also been a saxophonist

for the “Le Bal des Variétistes”/“Variety Ball” (tenor and baritone). She has also been a comic actor and stand-in saxophonist in the Ma-demoiselle Orchestra since 2013. Recently, she has started singing in Allez les Filles!, a capella vocal quartet.

Emmanuelle Ruaultsoprano saxophonist and oboistA professional musician since 2003, she has played in the Jo Bithume band for over ten years as an oboist and soprano saxophonist. Since 2009 she has also played in “Boîte de

Rue”/“Street Club”, an electro show by Jo Bithume Company, and she sings in the vocal a capella quartet, Allez les Filles!, the latest creation by the Jacqueline Cambouis Company. In 2015, she has also been a stand-in singer in “Little Boxon’g”, a retro swing music group from Angers.

Vanessa Grelliercomic actor and percussionnistComic actor since 2001, she worked with Jo Bithume Company on several street shows: “the Dream”, “Vic- tor Frankenstein”, the Jo Bithume band and “Boîte de rue”/”Street Club”. She also played in the “Jamais Trop

d’Art”/“Never enough art” group, in a magic-comedy show, “Magic-Cooker-13.” She played drums for many years with “Capharnaüm”, a Cholet batukada. She is an actor and singer in Allez Les Filles!.

Emmanuelle Bouriaudviolist and bassistGraduated at the Poitiers Conservatory in viola, she has been a professional musician since 2000. She plays in Julot Torride, a viola

and vocals duet, La Quinte, a vocals trio, the “Taal group”, experi-mental rock and Violinoscope, a pocket serenade of 3 violas and a musician. She is also an actor and musician in the “Deadly Vipers” fan club of the Jacqueline Cambouis Company.

The participants :Christophe Andral

Director, actor and artistic director of the Bougrelas Company

EducationProfessional acting course at the Théâtre en Miettes in Bordeaux with Luc Faugeres (1997-99)Theatre course at the Bordeaux IUT with Jack Delbalat, Jean-Pierre Ner-cam and Sergio Guagliardi (1993-95) Clown workshop with Luc Faugeres (2000)Introduction to production workshop with Patrick HouresConservatory of music (music theory, signing, violin) / 10 year piano course at CIAM, Bordeaux.Professional experienceBougrelas Company: actor and directorThe Von Strasse Filharmonics, street group creationFFTS (French Sporting Theatre Federation), street creation“One rich three poor” by Louis Calaferte, street and theatreThe Maître Pathelin farce, young viewers Grand restaurant, improvisa-tion show“Immediate gap”, single interventions for the audienceGIVB company: Restons poly, musical street show-directorJacqueline Cambouis company: Mademoiselle Orchestra, street band-directorJérôme Martin: L’insticonteur, show for young viewers-directorLes volets rouges Company: Le Fil, show for young viewers-directorPagai Opera: actorLe grand soir / street show“80% success”/ show for schoolsIntimate Safari/ street showLes sans balcons/ street shows“Satan’s Fart Company”:Le juge de l’ombre (Abdelatif Laabi)Tafurs Theatre: duets and monologues in Mats Models (Daniel Crumb)Théâtre en miettes (Luigi Pirandello)

Ludovic Rivière Musician, clarinettist, arranger

Education1994, General Academic Studies Degree in history at the Univer-sity of Poitiers1997, Musical Studies Diploma in clarinet, chamber music and mu-sical education at the Poitiers Regional Conservatory 1998, Unanimous jury Award of Excellence at the National Musical School of Mantes la Jolie (78)Professional Experience1994-2012, clarinettist, arranger and contributed to collective wri-ting at the “SNOB” band (an acronym standing for “Service for cleaning out waxed ears”), international toursIn 1991, he took part in the door of paradise Costin Miereanu crea-tion in PoitiersFrom 1994 to 1996, he participated in various chamber music concerts and created a flexible ensemble with a string quartet, 2 pianos and 2 clarinets1997, Concert in piano-clarinet sonata in Sarajevo for the Soros Foundation1997, Took part in the “Rainbows of Defence” creation by Henri Pousseur with the orchestras of the Regional Conservatories of Poitiers and Chartres2001-2005, Created music for amateurs as part of the artist Odile Azagury’s stay at Lussac-les-Châteaux2005, Co-founder of the amateur band “Gypsy band of Lussac the non-roms”2009, Co-organiser of the “Under the cobbles... the street” event, celebrating 15 years of “SNOB”

Jacqueline CAMBOUIS Company

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