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2018


⊥ BOROTALPADA ¬ Trimukhi Cultural Centre (TCC)
10 Years Anniversary Celebration

On November 3, 2018, in the company of friends from the village of Borotalpada, the cities of Kolkata, New Delhi, Paris and Marseille, the organisation co-founded by the French theatre director and philosopher Jean-Frédéric Chevallier, the Indian social worker and producer Sukla Bar and 18 Borotalpada families, Trimukhi Platform celebrated its 10 years of activity in the tribal area of Jhargram, West Bengal, India.

 

 

 

The event was simple and joyful. During the train journey, each audience was invited to seat alone by the window for a brief performative act and remember where she or he was 10 years ago, how far from Borotalpada. Few hours and many kilometres later, after the Santhal ladies from the village washed the feet of the arriving guests, everybody went down to the lake to watch the 2018 Trimukhi Platform theatre performance happening in the water: জল ই জীবন । la vie dans l’eau. Back at Trimukhi Cultural Centre, were showcased drafts of a video and photography exhibition and of a sound art installation, prepared by two young Santhals from the team. Then, as this out of the common aventure began one morning of 2008 with a few Santhal dance steps, it was time for an anniversary celebrating dance: following the rhythm of tamak and dumsa drums, everybody, from the village as from the cities, joined and moved together. Around midnight, after a massive (250 persons) but delightful dinner, video extracts of the works done since 2008 (dance-theatre performances, photography workshops, construction of the cultural centre, nights-long festival of contemporary performing arts) were projected on the wall of a newly build mud house while, in the Cultural Centre, the youth was dancing again and some others, older, conversing. Everybody smiling: who, 10 years ago, would have believed that this creative experiment where tribal farmers and artists from Europe, Asia, North and South America working together will continue bearing so tasty fruits?


⊥ PARIS ¬ Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle
Theatre of Presenting as a Combination of Differences ⌊lecture

⊥ MEDINIPUR ¬ Vidyasagar University
Essay on Seasonal Variation in Santhal Societydance-theatre
Contemporary Theatre and Tribal Community ⌊lecture

⊥ NEW DELHI ¬ Indian International Centre
Combining Presences instead of Telling One Story ⌊lecture

⊥ KOLKATA ¬ Jadavpur University + French Institute in India
Theatre Today with Ariane Mnouchkine and Trimukhi Platformconversation
Essay on Seasonal Variation in Santhal Societydance-theatre
Try Me Under Water ⌊video art installation

⊥ KOLKATA ¬ Alliance française du Bengale
Conversation after the Night 2018 ⌊conversation

⊥ BOROTALPADA ¬ Trimukhi Cultural Centre (TCC)
Night of Theatre n°10 • La Nuit des idées ⌊festival
জল ই জীবন । la vie dans l’eaudance-theatre

 
 

2017

⊥ KHORIKA ¬ Government School for Girls
Flesh & Paper n°2workshop

⊥ BOROTALPADA ¬ Trimukhi Cultural Centre
Light & Sight n°3 ⌊workshop

⊥ KOLKATA ¬ Oxford Bookstore
Fabricate (Fabric of) Art • Fabrique de l’Art n°2 ⌊book

⊥ PARIS ¬ Paris Nanterre University
Contemporary Theatre and Tribal Community ⌊lecture

⊥ BIRPARA ¬ Government College
Globalisation or Mundialisation? lecture

⊥ KOLKATA ¬ Alliance française du Bengale
Conversation after the Night 2017 ⌊conversation

⊥ BOROTALPADA ¬ Trimukhi Cultural Centre
Night of Theatre n°9 • La Nuit des idées ⌊festival
Essay on Seasonal Variation in Santhal Societydance-theatre
Try Me Under Water video art installation

 

2016

⊥ MONTREAL ¬ Librairie Le Port de Tête
Fabricate (Fabric of) Art • Fabrique de l’Art n°1book

⊥ CHICOUTIMI ¬ University of Québec
Try Me Under Water ⌊video installation
Fabricating Texts for Theatre in a Santhal Village ⌊lecture

⊥ KOLKATA ¬ Alliance française du Bengale
Fabricate (Fabric of) Art • Fabrique de l’Art n°1 ⌊book

⊥ PARIS ¬ Maison des Indes
Fabricate (Fabric of) Art • Fabrique de l’Art n°1 ⌊book

⊥ A CORUÑA ¬ Theatre Rosalía Castro
Contemporary Theatre Practice and Tribal Community Practicelecture
Community on Stage ⌊workshop

⊥ KOLKATA ¬ Jadavpur University
Fabricating Texts for Theatre in a Santhal Villagelecture

⊥ KOLKATA ¬ Alliance française du Bengale
Conversation after the Night 2016 ⌊conversation

⊥ BOROTALPADA ¬ Trimukhi Cultural Centre (TCC)
If Each Day I Love You More One Day Will I Explode? ⌊sound happening
Essay on Seasonal Variation in Santhal Societydance-theatre
Try Me Under Water ⌊night wandering

⊥ KOLKATA ¬ Jadavpur University+ Modern High School for Girls
Bachchader Experimentum ⌊theatre

2015

⊥ BOROTALPADA ¬ Trimukhi Cultural Centre
Bachchader Experimentumtheatre
পল্লির শব্দ Remixsound happening
Crash Courses in Arts Production n°4 ⌊workshop

⊥ WORLDWIDE ¬ Online with MACE
Visions of the land in India and elsewhereworkshop

⊥ BOROTALPADA ¬ Trimukhi Cultural Centre
Crash Courses in Arts Production n°3workshop

⊥ KOLKATA ¬ Goethe Institut Max Mueller Bhavan
Drowning Princess ⌊film-essay

⊥ KOLKATA ¬ Jadavpur University
Contemporary Theatre… What It Is? ⌊lecture

 

2014

⊥ BOROTALPADA ¬ Trimukhi Cultural Centre
Crash Courses in Arts Production n°2workshop

⊥ LA HABANA ¬ Casa de las Américas + French Embassy in Cuba
Contemporary Arts and Community Dynamicsworkshop
What Does To Build Mean? ⌊film-essay

⊥ BOROTALPADA ¬ Trimukhi Cultural Centre
Crash Courses in Arts Production n°1workshop⌋Trimukhi Cultural Centre


In July, a tin roof is put to cover the TCC.

⊥ WORLDWIDE ¬ Online with 17, Instituto de Estudios Criticos (Mexico)
The Arts of Presentingseminar

⊥ BOROTALPADA ¬ Trimukhi Cultural Centre
Night of Theatre n°7 ⌊festival
Per Ruptam Silvamtheatre


In January, repairing works start on TCC…

 

2013

⊥ WORLDWIDE ¬ Online with 17, Instituto de Estudios Criticos
The Arts of Presentingseminar

⊥ BOROTALPADA ¬ Trimukhi Cultural Centre

In March, the TCC is badly damage by Cyclone Phailin…

⊥ KOLKATA ¬ MACE
The Arts of Presenting ⌊seminar

⊥ BOROTALPADA ¬ Trimukhi Cultural Centre
Night of Theatre n°6 ⌊festival
The Thing That Exists When We aren’t theretheatre
What Does To Build Mean?film-essay
Light & Sight n°2workshop

 

2012

⊥ BOROTALPADA ¬ Government Primary School
Creatures of Flesh & Paper n°1 ⌊workshop

⊥ GUAYAQUIL ¬ National Performing Arts Institute of Ecuador
Transdisciplinarity in Arts and Social Diversity ⌊lecture
What Does To Build Mean? ⌊film-essay

⊥ KOLKATA ¬ Indian Council for Cultural Relations
Building Relations in a Space of Diversity ⌊lecture

⊥ PARIS ¬ Studio Dupleix
What Does To Build Mean? ⌊film-essay

⊥ BOROTALPADA ¬ Trimukhi Cultural Centre
Night of Theatre n°5 ⌊festival
Guignol’s দলdance-theatre
Light & Sight n°1workshop

Construction of the TCC goes on…

 

2010

⊥ BOROTALPADA ¬ in the jungle
On December 31, 2010, a village assembly takes the decision of building Trimukhi Cultural Centre.

⊥ BOGOTA ¬ Teatro Occidente + Adra + Colombian National University
Drowning Princess ⌊film-essay

2009

⊥ MEXICO ¬ Mexican National University
Night of Theatre n°4 ⌊festival
Drowning Princess ⌊film-essay

⊥ KOLKATA ¬ Easter Zonal Cultural Centre + Jadavpur University
Monsoon Night Dream ⌊theatre

⊥ AHMEDABAD ¬ Darpana Academy of Performing Arts
Drowning Princess ⌊film-essay

 
 

2008

⊥ KOLKATA ¬ Ankur Kala
আকাশ কুসুম রচনা করাdance-theatre

⊥ BOROTALPADA ¬ in the jungle
Monsoon Night Dream ⌊dance-theatre

In August 2008, a first meeting takes place, followed by few Santhal dance steps.