La Troupe IPAC (chant polyphonique du monde a cappella)

Violaine Bougy, Mathieu Fernandez, Bastien Girard-Lucchini, Aleksandra Kotecka, Chloé Louis, Leïla Mandelbröt, Kathleen Or’Reilly, Victor Parente. With artistic direction by Edgar Alemany and Amandine Audinot.

La Troupe IPAC

The International Presence Arts Center (IPAC) is an international rural troupe on the move in the heart of the Vosges and the Meuse, which describes itself as a living laboratory for research and creation.

Founded in 2018, La Troupe IPAC works with a specific region while continuing to tour its productions across the French public theatre network. Through European programmes, it develops artistic collaborations, notably in Spain, Italy, Poland, Ukraine and Bulgaria, and its reach extends even further, bringing international artists such as Togolese storyteller Alassane Sidibé, or Noh and Kutiyattam theatre masters through a partnership with the Intercultural Theatre Institute in Singapore, to rural areas of France.

IPAC is also a professional training centre in world polyphonic singing. The troupe promotes cultural diversity through the artistic practices it shares, passes on and stages: singing, theatre, cinema and cooking.

IPAC brings together a choir of ten international artists, singers and actors, with diverse backgrounds, shaped by encounters with some twenty masters and mistresses from Poland, Georgia, Italy, Bulgaria, Japan, India, Singapore, Armenia, Ukraine and elsewhere.

Joining this core is a dozen or so creative artists (lighting designer, costume designer, graphic designer, illustrator, electronic musician, filmmaker, set designer, cook), who enrich the troupe with their expertise and help shape distinctive aesthetic worlds, in an ever-renewed loyalty to the director-and-writer partnership of Amandine Audinot and Edgar Alemany.

Since its founding in 2018, IPAC has been a cooperating member of ITI-UNESCO (International Theatre Institute), the world's leading organisation for the performing arts.