Since you graduated in 2002, you have found your passion in teaching art here in New York. Tell us more. Everything I have done since 2002 has culminated into the creation of a bilingual picture book series for children called “Voltaire: The Franco-American Hipster dog” (www.voltairelivi.com). Even though I spent
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From Madrid to NYC, Flamenco Whirls to LFNY
How did you get into flamenco? I discovered Flamenco in New York right after graduating from the Lycée, but I had been studying other styles of dance (ballet, tap and jazz) at Broadway Dance Center from a young age. My experience at the Lycée definitely had a lot to do
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Can you share with us some of the highlights of what you have been doing since you graduated in 1985, and what you are doing now as a career? Ah! Well, it’s been a wild and wonderful ride, but certainly not an easy feat to synopsize 30 years in a
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Photo of the LFNY 2nde2 (10th grade) class in 1996. Polina Aronova sits at bottom left. Can you share with us some of the highlights of what you have been doing since you graduated in 1998, and what you are doing now as a career? Graduation already feels as if
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The class of 1ere S2 in 2001. Elektra Carras sits on the second row far left. Class of ’02 alumna Elektra Carras is quite the whirlwind. She is a vaccine researcher, a Rock n’ Roll musician a visual artist, a capoeira instructor, and an all-around wonderful person. What you have
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Talat Rubin, class of ’11 – Columbia University “The workload is extremely challenging.” Talat Rubin is studying pre-med at Columbia University in New York City. She was in Terminale ES BFA in 2011. Mathieu Shifera, class of ’13, Johns Hopkins University “Les
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LFNY: You left the Lycée in 1977. Can you share with us some of the highlights of what you have been doing since then and what you are doing now as a career? Philippe LaCrosse: After leaving the Lycée, I came back to Paris for Terminale. I then moved to
Read More!LFNY Alumni Art Exhibition: Meditations on Language
We chose the theme of language because as multilingual school with close to 50 nationalities represented in our community, the differences and similarities of the many languages spoken in our corridors by students and staff and parents are very much at the core of our culture. Once again, there were
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Producers Albie Hecht, Yael Melamede and director Sean Fine with their Oscar for the documentary Inocente. What led you to film and co-founding the production company Salty Features? And why the name Salty Features? I fell in love with Photography at Yale and worked in a photo studio after college. I
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Ann-Sophie Kaemmerle, class of ’11, University of Virginia. “The biggest surprise is the people you’ll meet” Hakan Karabey, class of ’11 – Cornell University “I initially thought I made the biggest mistake of my life.”
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