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Organised by the collective of  artists Proyecto 3, the second Night of Theatre took place on 2nd December 2006 at Claustro de Sor Juana University with the support of the Culture Secretary of Mexico City Municipal Corporation, the French Embassy in Mexico, the Spanish Cooperation Agency and the Institute 17 of Critical Studies ; and in the Mesones street in coordination with Casa Vecina Cultural Centre and Historical Mexico City Centre Foundation. Four companies as well as four stage directors where presenting their theatre or choreographic works: Kubilaï Khan Investigation (dir. Frank Micheletti, France, Japan, Italy, Spain, Vietnam), Proyecto 3 (dir. Jean-Frédéric Chevallier, Mexico, France), Dragón del Butoh (dir. Iko Rojas, Chili), Alternativa Teatral (dir. Leticia Ruiz, Mexico) and Matthieu Mével (France), Héctor Bourges, Rubén Ortiz, Isabel Ruiz (Mexico). Two films were also projected (Jean-Frédéric Chevallier, Maïa Nicolas, Joseph Danan, Adda Bautista) and four musical concerts were performed: Wamazo, Orfelinato, Pedro Aristóteles and Juan Pablo Villa. The Night of Theatre was preceded by the Second International Conference on Contemporary Theatre Gesture that took place in the Faculty of Philosophy and Literatures of the Mexican National University (UNAM) from 27th to 30th November 2006. The artists and researchers invited were coming from Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Chad, Congo, Cuba, Spain, Philippines, France, Italy, Japan and Mexico. The questions to reflect on were: (1) Perception of the act of presenting, (2) Cultural monopoles and artistic collectives: the stages of resistance, (3) Resistance against neoliberalism, (4) Theatre out of the theatre halls and civil society in the theatre. Each day more than 100 peoples were coming to listen the conferences. The texts of the conferences were published in a special edition of the review Lineas de fuga of Casa Refugio Citlaltépetl directed by Philippe Ollé-Laprune. ⇒ full programme in pdf

 WITH Jean-Frédéric Chevallier [Paris, Kolkata] Samantak Das [Kolkata] Cuqui Jerez [Madrid, Berlin] André-Éric Létourneau [Montréal] Patrice Maniglier [Paris] Yazel Parra Nahmens [Caracas, Barcelona] Sukla Bar [Kolkata] Bhudray Besra [Chaulbata village] Motilal Hansda [Borotalpada village] Surujmoni Hansda [Borotalpada village] Chandrai Murmu [Bhangabhandh village] Sunandan Roy Chowdhury [Kolkata]

 PRESENTED BY Trimukhi Platform, Institut Français in India AND French Embassy in India IN PARTNERSHIP WITH Alliance Française du Bengale, Ecole des Médias de l’Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), Acción Cultural Española AC/E, MACE, Hexagram