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TANZFILM AUSSCHREIBUNG

BIS 15. FEBRUAR 2023

Let It Be

Jean-Frédéric Chevallier
Trimukhi Platform
Samstag 4. Nov 2023
17:15 GMT+1
Metropolis Kino
  • Tanzfilm
India

| Synopsis

Bengali art producer Sukla Bar, French choreographer and philosopher Jean-Frédéric Chevallier and Santhal dance-theatre performer Joba Hansda believe in the beauty of in diversity. Supported by the Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF) during Covid pandemic times, they went to the seashore of Bay of Bengal to rehearse and film a video dance piece (or a film-theatre or a screen-dance, depending on your vocabulary preferences) that weaved together contemporary performing arts outdoor and cinematographic experimentation for online viewers.

Still, LET IT BE is not a video performance in situ but cum situ – with the site, “cum” meaning “with” in Latin. The environments (grove, sand, bird, wave, etc.) are elements among other elements, also in action, and also entering into the artwork combinatorial game, with neither more nor less importance than the others. To state this is to “question the all-encompassing ontological divisions, especially the one separating ‘humanity’ from the ‘environment’.” (Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, Cannibal Metaphysics) In fact, there are no more habitats than there are inert decors. “The habitat of a living creature is only the weaving of other living ones.” (Baptiste Morizot, Ways of Being Alive) Even English subtitles are included inside the images, since these written words are also part of the combination of differences that LET IT BE offers. In this sense, the film is a way to share the surprising aesthetic effects that making dance together different present elements and enhancing the strength of each unexpectedly bring up.

| Credits

Composed by Sukla Bar, Jean-Frédéric Chevallier, Joba Hansda
Choreographed & filmed by Jean-Frédéric Chevallier
Performed by Joba Hansda
Produced by Sukla Bar for Trimukhi Platform
Text by Jean-Frédéric Chevallier
Bengali translation & French reading by Sukla Bar
Santhali translation, Bengali & Santhali readings by Joba Hansda
Video editing & sound design by Jean-Frédéric Chevallier in collaboration with Sukla Bar & Joba Hansda
Costume by Jean-Frédéric Chevallier & Joba Hansda
Hair & style by Sukla Bar
Music extract “Concerto in A minor” by Antonio Vivaldi (transcription by J.S. Bach) interpreted by Munich Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra & Pierre Cochereau (courtesy of archive.org)
Artistic inputs by Promila Bar, Susmit Biswas, Marie-Laurence Chevallier, Joseph Danan & Ruchama Noorda
Logistic support by Lucy Besra & Kabita Lindenmeyer
Supported & co-produced by the Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF) & the Metropolitan University of Mexico City (UAM – Cuajimalpa)

Jean-Frédéric Chevallier

| Biographie

Born in France in 1973, Jean-Frédéric Chevallier is a dance-theatre director, a video artist and a philosopher. Holder of three master’s degrees and one PhD, a lecturer at the Sorbonne-Nouvelle University (Paris) for two years, then a professor at the National University of Mexico for seven years, he radically changed course in 2008 by choosing to operate from a Tribal village in Bengal (India), becoming director of Trimukhi Platform: a unique journey that opened up the possibility of practicing the arts and thinking in a more contemporary and unpredictable way. With about 45 dance-theatre performances (for an example “Cooking Stone” performed in a red stone quarry at the outskirts of Borotalpada Tribal village and selected for Danse Elargie 2020 at Théâtre de la Ville, Paris) and 18 video art films (showcased in France, Mexico, Spain, India, Canada, Colombia, Cuba, Germany, Taiwan, Ecuador) to his credit so far, he has published in French the essays “Deleuze and the Theatre” (Solitaires Intempestifs, 2015) and “The Theatre of Presenting” (Circé, 2020) as well as the poetry collection “Then from the World” (Trimukhi Platform, 2022). Several extracts from these books have been published in English, Spanish, Bengali or Portuguese in shorter versions.

| Biographie

Born in France in 1973, Jean-Frédéric Chevallier is a dance-theatre director, a video artist and a philosopher. Holder of three master’s degrees and one PhD, a lecturer at the Sorbonne-Nouvelle University (Paris) for two years, then a professor at the National University of Mexico for seven years, he radically changed course in 2008 by choosing to operate from a Tribal village in Bengal (India), becoming director of Trimukhi Platform: a unique journey that opened up the possibility of practicing the arts and thinking in a more contemporary and unpredictable way. With about 45 dance-theatre performances (for an example “Cooking Stone” performed in a red stone quarry at the outskirts of Borotalpada Tribal village and selected for Danse Elargie 2020 at Théâtre de la Ville, Paris) and 18 video art films (showcased in France, Mexico, Spain, India, Canada, Colombia, Cuba, Germany, Taiwan, Ecuador) to his credit so far, he has published in French the essays “Deleuze and the Theatre” (Solitaires Intempestifs, 2015) and “The Theatre of Presenting” (Circé, 2020) as well as the poetry collection “Then from the World” (Trimukhi Platform, 2022). Several extracts from these books have been published in English, Spanish, Bengali or Portuguese in shorter versions.

Trimukhi Platform

| Biographie

Die 2008 in Borotalpada, einem Dorf nahe der Grenze zwischen Bengalen und Orissa in Indien, gegründete Trimukhi Platform hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, zeitgenössische Kunst zu produzieren, Brücken zwischen entfernten Welten zu bauen und die Entwicklung ungewöhnlicher Gedanken anzuregen. Das Kollektiv bringt mehrere Familien in diesem Santhal-Dorf (die Santhal sind eine Gemeinschaft von Adivasi oder "Ureinwohnern" Indiens) um den Tanztheaterregisseur, Videomacher und Philosophen Jean-Frédéric Chevallier und die Kunstproduzentin Sukla Bar zusammen.

| Biographie

Die 2008 in Borotalpada, einem Dorf nahe der Grenze zwischen Bengalen und Orissa in Indien, gegründete Trimukhi Platform hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, zeitgenössische Kunst zu produzieren, Brücken zwischen entfernten Welten zu bauen und die Entwicklung ungewöhnlicher Gedanken anzuregen. Das Kollektiv bringt mehrere Familien in diesem Santhal-Dorf (die Santhal sind eine Gemeinschaft von Adivasi oder "Ureinwohnern" Indiens) um den Tanztheaterregisseur, Videomacher und Philosophen Jean-Frédéric Chevallier und die Kunstproduzentin Sukla Bar zusammen.