Tantidhatri 2012

Tantidhatri programmeTantidhatri – is a festival of women performing arts practitioners across the globe. This is a festival inspired from the Transit festival created by actress and writer Julia Varley of Odin Teatret Denmark, also a founder of Magdalena Project. This festival is the first of its kind in India.

Like the Transit and The Magdalena Project, Tantidhatri Festival in India is committed to nurturing an awareness of women's contribution to performing arts and to support exploration and research by offering concrete opportunities to the discerning women, both in the profession and in life. Tantidhatri functions internationally to give voice to the concerns of women working in theatre today. The Tantidhatri Festival encourages women to examine their role in the future of theatre, by presenting their work, by sharing methodologies, by examining form as well as content and by venturing into new collaborative projects.

Documentation:

Tantidhatri web site
Festival brochure (2MB PDF)

Reports:

• Newspaper article about the festival (180KB jpeg)
• report by Alo Pal
• blog posts by Helen Varley Jamieson - during and after the festival
• La India entra por mis pies - India reaches me through my feet by Roxana Piñeda (38KB PDF)

Images:

• Portraits by Jennifer Macklem (and Jennifer's web site)
• Photos by Jyoti Eri
• Photos by Christine Roland
• Photos by Jean-Pierre Muller:
  • Inuguration and Macheri Parambal Padmavarthy, Gandhi Tidal (March 10th)
  • Voix Polyphoniques, Notre Dame des Anges (March 11th)
  • Margi Vijayakumar, Kathakali performance, Gandhi Tidal (March 12th)
  • Keiin Yoshimura, Sri Aurobindo Ashram Theatre (March 13th)
  • Parvathy Baul, Sri Aurobindo Ashram Theatre (March 13th)
  • Parvathy Baul, Gandhi Tidal (March 14th)
  • Viox Polyphoniques, Aurodhan Gallery (March 15th)
  • Kaliatam, Aurodhan Garden (March 15th)
  • Farewell Party, Aurodhan Garden (March 15th)

Podcasts:
Auroville Radio has made podcasts of the festival talks available online:

• The Actresses of Odin Teatret, Julia Varley
• Piel des Violetas, Roxana Piñeda
• Kamigatamai begins Tantidhatri, Keiin Yoshimura
• The Castle of Holstebro, Julia Varley
• Radha Bhav, Parvathy Baul
• Being an Actress in Bengali Theatre, Rwitta Dutta Chakraborty
• Out or In?, Bruna Gusberti
• Umbral, Cristina Castrillo
• Women in Tamil Theatre, Kalaairani
• The Tradition of Kamagatimai, Keiin Yoshimura
• What is Theatre Anyway?, Helen Varley Jamieson (click here for a PDF transcript of this talk)
• Theatre of Roots, Bruna Gusberti
• The Actress in Exile, Cristina Castrillo
• Walk on the Street, Geddy Aniksdal
• Jill Greenhalgh's talk
• My Life as a Man, Geddy Aniksdal