ḤÉSÈD

At the invitation of the Culture Department of Bordeaux Montaigne University, three members of Trimukhi Platform (Jean-Frédéric Chevallier, Sukla Bar and Sukul Hansda) carried out a one-month artistic residency in France. On March 30, 2023, they presented the first draft of the new dance performance that they had just composed. It was outside, at a place on campus called “the little forest.”

Entitled Ḥésèd (i.e. the availability to enter into a relationship with others), the performing artwork is not in situ but cum situ – with the site. The environment and its components are elements among other elements, also entering into the combinatorial game, with neither more nor less importance than the others: a dancer, a student passing by the field, a car crossing the road, a voice, an unknown language from India, a falling oak leaf, the trunk of a pine tree, the grass slightly wet from the spring drizzle, a half rolled-up string of coconut shells oscillating in the wind.

with Sukul Hansda ⊥ choreography, poetry & sound design Jean-Frédéric Chevallier ⊥ artistic collaboration, scenography & Bengali translation Sukla Bar Chevallier ⊥ Santhali translation Sukul Hansda ⊥ recorded voices Jean-Frédéric Chevallier & Sukul Hansda ⊥ artistic inputs Pierre Katuszewski & Johanna Renaudin ⊥ production Trimukhi Platform ⊥ co-production in France Culture Department of Bordeaux Montaigne University ⊥ executive production in France Compagnie Amala Dianor / Kaplan ⊥ with the support of Taizé Community for the showcase of the performance in Burgundy

The first draft of the solo dance was performed by Sukul Hansda and showcased outdoors on March 30, 2023, then presented again on April 11, 2023 in a wooded meadow outside the village of Taizé, in Burgundy. The final version of the dance piece will be performed by Mashiro Tamura and premiered in July 2025.