Cours Florent

Cours Florent - Drama School in Paris

Type	Private
President	Frédéric Montfort
Students	2,500
Location	Paris Brussels Montpellier , France
Language	French, English
Website	www.coursflorent.education

The Cours Florent is a private French drama school in Paris created in 1967 by François Florent.

The school is located on three nearby sites in the 19th arrondissement of Paris, France: rue Archereau, rue Mathis and Avenue Jean-Jaurès, further along which is located the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris. The Cours Florent is also located in Brussels Belgium and in Montpellier France.

Programs

The Cours Florent is known as one of France's most prestigious drama schools, offering a three-year program to learn acting as well as theatre classes for children and teenagers.

Since 2011, the school also offers a three-year program in English called (Acting in English) for English speaking students and foreigners. Students can apply to this program during the school year. Auditions are organized in May and September and 2 intensive summer programs are available in July and August.

Cours Florent International courses offer students not only the chance to refine their dramatic acting skills but also to experience full immersion in the cultural and artistic life of France.

The school has a specialized class to prepare students for the competitive examination of the prestigious Conservatoire national supérieur d'Art dramatique de Paris (CNSAD), as well as the École nationale supérieure des arts et techniques du théâtre (ENSATT) in Lyon and the École supérieure d'art dramatique of the Strasbourg National Theater. But the Cours Florent is above all famous for its Classe libre (Free class) where many French actors and actresses have studied, with teachers like Francis Huster, Jean-Pierre Garnier, Hervé Falloux and Antonia Malinova.

Cours Florent also has a series of Master Classes with major International teachers like Mark Bell, actors, which has featured Olivier Marchal, Gilles Lellouche and alumni Diane Kruger, Gad Elmaleh, Guillaume Canet and Jacques Weber among others.

Notable alumni

Over its history, many notable people have come out of the Cours Florent, including:

• Isabelle Adjani
• Morjana Alaoui
• Yvan Attal
• Mylène Farmer
• Daniel Auteuil
• Édouard Baer
• Jeanne Balibar
• Malik Bentalha
• Dominique Blanc
• Guillaume Canet
• Jil Caplan
• Isabelle Carré
• Nicolas Cazalé
• Anne Consigny
• Clotilde Courau
• Jean-Pierre Darroussin
• Emmanuelle Devos
• Marie de Villepin
• Vincent Elbaz
• Gad Elmaleh
• Stéphane Freiss
• Thierry Frémont
• José Garcia
• Olivier Gourmet
• Eva Green
• Agnès Jaoui
• Marina Hands
• Francis Huster
• Diane Kruger
• Samuel Le Bihan
• Vincent Lindon
• Sophie Marceau
• Jérôme Pradon
• Cristiana Reali
• Muriel Robin
• Sebastian Roché
• Jean-Paul Rouve
• Mathilde Seigner
• Audrey Tautou
• Gaspard Ulliel
• Jacques Weber
• Océane Zhu
• Elsa Zylberstein
• Luce
• Pierre Niney

External links

• (English) Official English website