Mime and Dance Instructor
Following a serious injury to the ankle, inoperable at the time, Yvonne Cartier left England for France in 1957, and worked for twenty years as a mime with the celebrated troupes of Jacques Lecoq and Marcel Marceau, and as choreographer and movement specialist to theatre companies. At the Ecole Charles Dulin, she taught mime and movement, and then acted as assistant to Michael Cacoyannis for Les Troyennes at the Théâtre National Populaire, which production she later staged for the Festival d'Avignon. She also assisted Georges Wilson for his staging of Grandeur et Décadence de la Ville de Mahagonny.
Thereafter, she returned to the classical dance, teaching in several Paris-area Conservatoires, notably the Nadia Boulanger Conservatory.
Yvonne Cartier has trained several high-level artists including Muriel Valtat and Betina Marcolin. She was Consultant to Beryl Morina's authoritative Mime in Ballet (2000). Yvonne was the photographic model for Gordon Anthony in Felicity Gray's Ballet for Beginners (1952), and she continues to teach and coach in Paris to this day.
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