Jean-Frédéric Chevallier
| Biography
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.
| Biography
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.
