GALLERY

GALERIE / GALLERY

Every one of us is a work of art
and
everyone has something good to give.

Thank-yous are a great bunch. Very colorful.
They are very nice to give and very nice to receive;
they are welcome any time,
very enjoyable for everyone.
And so I would like to take this opportunity to thank all of you
for visiting me here and for following me and supporting me.
MERCI
THANK YOU
Isa :)

Wanna be a star?

Me on board the Cristal II Paris July 13th, 2014

Olé!! Olé!!

Isa on her way to the Panthéon... les grands hommes... what about petite women? ^^

Wanna dance?

The Seine River in Paris

Ca, c'est Paris!! Click here to listen to the song by Maurice Chevalier (1888-1972)

Click here to visit the Claude Monet website in Giverny. I love impressionist painters.

Notre-Dame

The Brooklyn Bridge in New York

Just me... Click here if you are interested in art in general

Paris, May 11th 2013

Please stay away from me, Paparazzi ;)

I lived and worked in Florida for 6 years. :)

Be your own sunshine

Vive la Vie!
Vive l'Amour!
Célébrons-les tous les jours!

"Love is the way"
Original song
Isarielle & Brian Gopfa

Cliquer sur la photo pour écouter.

I love
beaucoup de choses...
(cliquer sur chaque section ci-dessous pour y accéder directement):

I love singing
You and me and music...

Over 400 videos

Over 1,000 subscribers on Youtube

4,700 295 views
in fact, to be exact ;)
as of today January 14th 2023
(Youtube + Fandalism only)

A big THANK YOU to all my fans and followers on these channels.
Please click on the 5 logos here above for direct access.

MERCI MERCI
THANK YOU ALL VERY MUCH

Ici une petite vidéo de remerciements
que j'ai mise en ligne le 1er octobre 2013,
deux ans après avoir créé ma chaîne sur Youtube (novembre 2011).

J'étais très contente à l'époque (et très surprise...) car je venais de dépasser
100 000 vues sur ma chaîne Youtube
et 100 000 vues sur ma chaîne Fandalism.

Rehearsal
with the Lobotomized Peanut Sandwiches
on May 16th 2016

Voici ma toute première répétition avec des musiciens en chair et en os :)
It was my very first rehearsal with flesh and bone musicians :)

Cent fois sur le métier remettez votre ouvrage...
Cliquer sur la photo...
;)
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again...
Click on the photo
;)

Jam Session
at "Autour de Midi et Minuit"
with Valérie Hébey, Julio Laks, Giovanni Licata, Loïc Guychard, Antoine Maunoury
and Eddie Allen
on October 27th 2016

Valérie Hébey, a great jazz singer,
was my vocal coach in 2016.

We are accompanied here by Julio Laks (piano), Giovanni Licata (upright bass)

Eddie Allen (drums), Loïc Guychard (upright bass) and Antoine Maunoury.

A few vocal coaching sessions
at Valérie Hébey's
with Julio Laks on the piano
in November-December 2016

With Julio and Valérie
Please click on the photos to have access to their websites.

My 60th birthday party
and 1st live concert

With Fabio Deldongo, David Picard
and Sébastien Fauqué
Click on the photo to watch the concert

It took place on December 9th 2017
in a club in Paris called Les Dessous du Panthéon.
I sang a dozen jazz and latino songs.
I am very thankful to the three wonderful musicians who accompanied me that evening and did so with such talent:
Fabio Deldongo (composer/songwriter, pianist, guitarist and arranger), David Picard (bass) and Sébastien Fauqué (percussions).
Thank you so much, Gentlemen,
for that wonderful evening.
Cliquer sur les photos ci-dessus pour voir le concert. 
Merci

LIVE
at the Bistro du Marché in La Varenne Saint-Hilaire
with Fabio Deldongo and Stéphane Poterlot
in September and October 2018

Stéphane (left) and Fabio (right).
Please click on the photo if you wish to listen to the three of us.
Thanks.

LIVE
at Ô Grain de Sel
A little concert by myself with my mike and my computer
in a nice little restaurant

Please click on the photo if you wish to listen to the concert.
Merci :)

My participation in a first album
The songs were written and composed by Robin Rendell,
the album was produced by Tony Ridgway.
Please click HERE if you wish to listen to us.
Thanks

I love acting

THEATER

I participated in 4 "100% Comedy" acting workshops from August 2016 to December 2017,
orchestrated by Eric Laugérias and Vincent Varinier
from La Compagnie des Hauts de Scène.
I had the opportunity to play many different parts :
"Catherine" (a sketch by Sylvie Joly),
"Odette", from the movie Ca n'empêche pas les sentiments, directed by Jean-Pierre Jackson,
"Caroline" from the play Gros Chagrins by Georges Courteline,
"Irma Lambert" from Jean Giraudoux's play La Folle de Chaillot,
"Thérèse" from the play Le Père Noël est une ordure by Jean-Marie Poiré.
A wonderful new experience for me :)

Isa - la Folle de Chaillot
Version 2016 :)

My stage partner Gilles Rouillet and I rehearsing the sketch "La répétition" (the rehearsal)

And after the rehearsals, the real thing took place at the Théâtre du Gymnase Marie Bell...
here below...

Just click on the picture to view the video.
Merci :)

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Gilles and I had good fortune to play that sketch called "La Répétition" (the rehearsal).
It was created in 1977 by Guy Bedos and Sophie Daumier and it was performed in 1991 by Guy Bedos and Muriel Robin
at the televised Ceremony for the Molières (the French National Theatre Awards).
It was the first time the two artists collaborated.
This experience eventually led to a duet show: Bedos / Robin.
Please click
HERE
if you wish to listen to the sketch performed by Guy Bedos and Muriel Robin

Merci à vous!
Thank you all!

Wow, an Oscar already*...
things go so fast these days, I am having a hard time keeping up...
* Just kidding folks, just kidding ;)

CINEMA

Between March and December 2018 I participated in 3 intensive "Acting in front of the camera" workshops directed by Hubert Gillet.
Hubert Gillet is the director of "In your arms", a French film with Michèle Laroque and Martin Loizillon;
he also directed « Lune », a short film that has received more than twenty national and international awards.
Hubert Gillet participated as an actor in many TV movies as well as in feature films
such as "La sentinelle" by Arnaud Desplechin, "Nikita" by Luc Besson,etc...
These great workshops are intended for any actors wishing to sharpen and polish their work in front of the camera.
Hubert Gillet’s objective is to give actors tools to help them go beyond what a director asks for and make suitable character proposals.
Well beyond directing actors, the idea is to put them on tracks, to provoke them to make them exist and live with utmost sincerity;
help them grasp the feeling of urgency on film sets and prepare for it, explain to them how to work on a set, how to find their place and make an impact.
Influenced by the cinematic style of directors such as Kaurismaki, Ken Loach, the Dardenne Brothers, part of the workshops also consisted
in exploring the actors’ expressions all along sequence shots, closely watched by the camera -
the goal being to capture the "truth" of the human soul in its most authentic expression.
*These interesting workshops took place in Rue Saint Roch; Saint Roch is considered to be the patron saint of artists.

A networking evening organized by Cinema Club at Hilton Paris Opera (August 23rd 2017)
I just love cinema, I have seen hundreds of movies, all kinds,
but mostly romance, screwball comedy and adventure films.

On July 25th 2018 I went to the networking evening event
organized by CinemaClub at Hilton St Lazare in Paris.
I was able to meet scriptwriters, actors
and I even ended up speaking German with a French director
who declaimed for me Heinrich Heine's most famous poem "Die Lorelei".
Aaaaahhh, how beautiful, how intense, what an evening!!
:)

I had a great time at the 45th Short Film Night
"Ce n'est pas la taille qui compte" (It isn't the size that counts"),
a series of evening events dedicated to short films,
organized and presented by director and actor Sergio Do Vale
at the Cinema Les 5 Caumartin in Paris (July 9th 2018).
A dozen short films were projected, all very different, all of a very high quality.
The film makers were there and shared with us information concerning the making of their movies.
A very interesting evening; I enjoyed it a lot.
A must-attend event.

VOICE OFF / VOICE OVER

Photo ©Marie-Clémence David

I love feeling useful.
I will be both happy and honoured to assist you with my voice in the production of your projects:
documentary films, e-learning, story telling, audiodescription, audio guides, institutional films, advertising.
CLIQUER ICI
pour mes enregistrements en français
CLICK HERE
to listen to my recordings in English, German, Spanish and Italian
Merci à vous.

I love video making

MY AUDIOVISUAL WEBSITE
I launched it on March 8th 2016,
Women's Day.
Being a woman remains difficult in the 21st century...
Please click on any of the pictures here below to visit it.
Thank you :)

MY OTHER ARTIST WEBSITE
I created this one on August 25th 2017.
Just click on the picture here below to access it.
Merci!

I love drawing and painting

Isa - Camille Claudel in 1884
Just click on the picture to see all my drawings and paintings.
Thanks!

Here above a video showing 20 of my drawings with music

I love modelling

I am registered with 3 modelling agencies in Paris
(since October-November 2017)
I am very glad to add this new activity
to the list of those I am already devoting my time to.
Click on the 3 photos here below to have access to their websites.

DIGITAL ARTISTS / REBECCA ARTISTS
Specialised in casting for advertisements of all kinds:
advertising shots; television, cinema, internet commercials and corporate films,
in France as well as abroad.

AGENCE HAPPY
A modelling agency that specializes in advertising and institutional campaigns.

AGENCE SMITH & SMITH
an agency in Paris that represents models, actors, celebrities and high-level athletes
for print, web or TV advertising campaigns in France and abroad.

Here below a few pictures taken by Marie-Clémence David on March 25th 2017
© Marie-Clémence David.
Marie-Clémence is a photographer whose personality and artistic work I really like.

Yes, I am rather short, 1.57m (five foot two), well, petite is the word, but...
"On a souvent besoin d'un plus petit que soi"
Le Lion et le Rat,
Jean de La Fontaine
:)

I love smiling and laughing

And...
 The harder the context, the louder we must laugh.
March 2016

I write comic sketches every now and then.
Please click on the two rectangles here below for direct access to some of them.
Merci :)

Click here!

Cliquez ici!

My demo reel.
August 23rd 2018

I love nature and its beautiful variety

I'll be right back...

I love our beautiful planet

Earth Day is every day

I love animals

My two beloved cats: Framboise (left) and Fanfan (right)

Buddy, my Chinese dog, and I in Brittany in August 2013

He and I in Charente-Martime in August 2015

Buddy in July 2019

I am an animal lover. I have always had animals; they are essential to me.
Animals are wonderful beings that greatly deserve to be loved and respected.

"The greatness of a nation
and its moral progress
can be judged by the way
its animals are treated."
Mahatma Gandhi

"I am in favor of animal rights
as well as human rights.
That is the way
of a whole human being."
Abraham Lincoln

I love art and creativity

Claude Monet, Impression, soleil levant, 1872

Eugène Delacroix, Bouquet de fleurs, 1843

Stone art by Italian artist Stefano Furlani

Street art (anonymous)

Nail art by British artist David Foster

Street Art (anonymous)

Stone balancing by Canadian artist Michael Grab

This is Nounours. I painted this watercolor in 2008 from a picture I had taken of him.
He passed away in 2011. I was very fond of him.

Please click HERE
if you wish to see all my drawings and paintings.
Merci :)

I love sport

I have played a lot of different sports in my life, a lot.
But the only one that I still practice rather regularly is swimming, a sport you can easily indulge in well into a ripe old age :)
And when I am on vacation somewhere where there is a good-sized pool, I swim 1,000 meters early every morning.
Sport keeps you in shape and lifts your spirits.

And let's not forget : dancing.
I have done quite a bit of that too.
And still do, every week:
mostly bolero, pasodoble, waltz, cha-cha-cha, tango, rock and roll, bachata, salsa and disco.
It is both fun and convivial.
Very enjoyable.
:)

I love spirituality

in God I trust

Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris
on Easter Monday 2016.
I love chapels, churches and cathedrals for they are places of history, signification and mystery.

I love peace and I love love ...

Yes, I know... the idea is not new...,
but good ideas deserve to be spread...

I love kindness

to yourself
and
to others

This white rose for all the victims of inhumanity in this world.

I also love...

I (try to) keep abreast of what is going on in this world by reading the press in 6 languages:
French, English, German, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese.
Mostly on my mobile phone and on my computer.
I also enjoy watching TV
(the news, movies, investigative reports and documentary films in particular).

As a Franco-American
I am interested in what goes on both in France and in the US.

I love music
(all kinds of music types as you may know...)

And I love cinema
(mostly romance, comedy-drama or dramedy,
screwball comedy, and adventure films).

My favourite movie?
Hum, difficult to say, I have seen so many... but if I had to pick out only one...,
it would be Les Choristes (The Chorus)
by French film maker Christophe Barratier, such a beautiful movie, so well done, so touching.
A great cast: Gérard Jugnot, François Berléand, Kad Merad, Jean-Baptiste Maunier, Marie Bunel, and many more.
The kind of movie that lifts your spirit. Inspired and inspiring. Just beautiful.

I am here near Notre-Dame, my favourite district in the capital.
I enjoy a variety of music genres, including classical music.
Gorgeous weather that day - June 2015
PS: The very nice Harley Davidson belongs to a friend of mine :)

I love Paris

Here below some pictures I took in April 2017.

For more pictures taken by me
please click
HERE
Merci!

I love(d) my job(s)

I was a market research consultant for the last 22 years; I am now retired.
I conducted what we call in our jargon "qualitative market research".
More specifically I was a moderator, an analyst and a translator.
To summarize a bit...,
I would say that I interviewed* a variety of respondents**,
I listened very carefully to what they had to say,
I gathered and compiled all the information,
and then I analyzed all the insights
in order to produce reports containing actionable recommendations for my clients.
This job enabled me to meet people from all walks of life, to work on a large variety of topics,
in a variety of places and settings and in many sectors
(especially Healthcare, Industry & Services, High Technology and Consumer Goods).
It was a job that fitted me like a glove; I really loved it, it was wonderfully enriching.
Before that I was a foreign language teacher for 30 years (business schools and language schools in France, universities in the US).
A job that I also loved very very much.
I wore those two hats (teaching and market research) for 12 years...
Please click on any of the pictures here below to have access to my marketing website.
Thank you.
* I conducted face-to-face interviews, telephone interviews, Skype and Zoom interviews, and I moderated focus groups and online communities (Europe and USA)
** Top management, company executives, healthcare professionals, experts, opinion leaders, consumers, users, patients, etc.

Top-of-the-Rock, New York, July 11th 2015

Florence, 2012

Tignes, March 2009

London, December 2014

New York, July 2015

Downtown Chicago, July 8th 2015

A backroom where clients can watch interviews and focus groups through the one-way mirror and on the screens.

Lille, France, November 2016

My work tools: mostly a computer, a telephone, and a digital voice recorder;
also various movie cameras in the case of in situ interviews.

I believe there is always room and time for thank-yous.
So here is another one.
Big and colorful :)

I love myself

Loving oneself is not easy for some of us; it has taken me a long time.
However, the time it takes does not matter; what matters is to get there at some point.
Only when we love ourselves can others feel our love and respond to it.

Isa Zyva
April 27th 2016

Isa Hurray
May 2018

Isa Whairdo
September 16th 2016

I love to smile and laugh and make fun of myself...
I tend to prefer to make fun of myself than to make fun of others for we are all flawed, aren't we?
I also love to play different parts, to put myself in other people's shoes to see how it feels. I find it both fun and interesting.
Interesting because it helps me understand them better.

December 2016

Avril 2018

I also tend to prefer my left profile; I am sure you have noticed ;)

November 2019

March 2019

April 1st 2021
Celebrating a happy afternoon with a friend
Some free time outdoors in the sunshine
Just before confinement #3
À la bonne vôtre!
À la bonne nôtre!

Avril 2022
Sur les Quais de Seine à Paris

Avril 2022
Sur les Quais de Seine à Paris
A little pause in between dances

Septembre 2023
Sur les Quais de Seine à Paris
Going dancing

Avril 2023
En répétition avec l'OHVA
pour la Fête de la Musique du 21 juin,
sous la direction de Philippe Rossignol
Cliquer sur la photo ci-dessus pour en savoir plus sur cet orchestre.

Cliquer sur la photo ci-dessus pour connaître l'histoire de l'OHVA.

Et voilà! C'est fait!
Une formidable expérience et un formidable souvenir

Pour écouter notre concert du 21 juin 2023,
cliquer
ICI
Et pour suivre l'OHVA, c'est
ICI

Et quelle surprise!
De jolies fleurs, des orchidées papillon, me sont offertes à la fin du concert.
Comme c'est gentil! Comme c'est touchant!
Merci!

And... I love learning

I have always loved to learn, to acquire new skills, all my life and I keep learning.
Every day is a new day
and
a new source of enrichment.

By yourself and together
All life long

And some more...

On March 8th... and every day

TO ANYONE, ANYWHERE, ANY TIME

Cliquer sur l'image pour accéder à ce nouveau site
qui vient en aide aux femmes victimes de violences.
MERCI

Il restera de toi

Il restera de toi
Ce que tu as donné
Au lieu de le garder
Dans des coffres rouillés.
Il restera de toi,
De ton jardin secret,
Une fleur oubliée
Qui ne s'est pas fanée.
Ce que tu as donné
En d'autres fleurira.
Celui qui perd sa vie
Un jour la trouvera.

Il restera de toi
Ce que tu as chanté
À celui qui passait
Sur son chemin désert.
Il restera de toi
Une brise du soir,
Un refrain dans le noir
Jusqu'au bout de l'hiver.
Ce que tu as chanté
En d'autres jaillira.
Celui qui perd sa vie
Un jour la trouvera.

Il restera de toi
Ce que tu as offert
Entre tes bras ouverts
Un matin de soleil.
Il restera de toi
Ce que tu as perdu,
Que tu as attendu
Plus loin que tes réveils.
Ce que tu as offert
En d'autres revivra.
Celui qui perd sa vie
Un jour la trouvera.

Il restera de toi
Une larme tombée,
Un sourire germé
Sur les yeux de ton cœur.
Il restera de toi
Ce que tu as semé,
Que tu as partagé
Aux mendiants du bonheur.
Ce que tu as semé
En d'autres germera.
Celui qui perd sa vie
Un jour la trouvera.

Michel Scouarnec

___________

Prière du poète

Je ne sais ni bêcher, ni herser, ni faucher,
Et je mange le pain que d'autres ont semé.
Mais tout ce que l'on peut moissonner de douceur,
Je l'ai semé, Seigneur.

Je ne sais ni dresser un mur de bonne pierre,
Ni couler une vitre où se prend la lumière.
Mais tout ce que l'on peut bâtir sur le bonheur,
Je l'ai bâti, Seigneur.

Je ne sais travailler ni la soie, ni la laine,
Ni tresser en panier le jonc de la fontaine.
Mais ce qu'on peut tisser pour habiller le coeur,
Je l'ai tissé, Seigneur.

Je ne sais ni jouer de vieux airs populaires,
Ni même retenir par coeur une prière.
Mais ce qu'on peut chanter pour se sentir meilleur,
Je l'ai chanté, Seigneur.

Ma vie s'est répandue en accords à vos pieds.
L'humble enfant que je fus est enfant demeuré,
Et le peu qu'un enfant donne dans sa candeur,
Je vous l'offre, Seigneur.

Maurice Carême

THANK YOU ALL !
MERCI À VOUS!