Tantidhatri 2019

Third Edition

15 January 2019 to 20 January 2019

Venue:

Rabindra Tirtha, Kolkata

Country:

India

Web site:

Tantidhatri - Ekathara Kalari

The 3rd edition of the international women's performing arts festival Tantidhatri will be held in 2019.

Tantidhatri is India’s first International Women’s Performing Arts Festival. Its first edition took place in Pondicherry in 2012 and the second, in Bangalore in 2016. This third edition, will take place in Kolkata from 15th till 20th of January 2019. Tantidhatri aims at being a space of engagement for artists, thinkers and groups that are committed to women’s work in the field of performing arts.

The festival will donate its surplus amount for education of girl children in India. Although physically it is a five day event filled with performances, critiques, talks and interactions, the spirit of the Tantidhatri is universal and not bound by time or space. This year the theme is ‘Energy’ and through the festival, we will be channelizing all our efforts towards the positive flow of energy in all things physical and meta physical.

More info: http://ekatharakalari.org/tantidhatri/tantidhatri-2019/
Full program: http://ekatharakalari.org/tantidhatri/tantidhatri-2019/#schedule1
Fundraising Appeal: https://sacsouthasia.org/donate-tantidhatri-2019/

International participants prices: Workshop and shows pass: 172 euros /196 USD//Workshop+shows+ food for 6 days: 242 Euros/276 USD//Workshop+shows+accommodation in dormitory+ food for 6 days: 313 Euro/ 357 USD

Tantidhatri 2019 artists (in order of appearance in the program): Seema Kholi (India), Julia Varley (Odin Teatret- Denmark), Muyedittu ritual (India), Rwita Dutta Chakrabouty (India), Amaranta Osorio and Suzon Fuks (Mexico, Australia, Spain), Ana Woolf (Argentina), Dipannita Acharya (India), Parwati Dutta (India), Pandavani (India), Violeta Luna and Rakini Devi (Mexico-India), Monica de la Fuente (Spain), Samarpita Chanda (India), Lopamudra (India), Viviana Bovino (Spain), Nathalie Mentha (Teatro Potlach- Italy), Brigitte Cirla and Eleonore Bovon (France), Helen Varley Jamieson (New Zeland), Verónica Moraga and Antonieta Muñoz (Chile), Keiin Yoshimura (Japan), Dr. Uttara Chousalkar (India), Maristella Martella (Italy), Dah Theater (Serbia), Jill Greenhalgh and Meg Ella (UK), Geddy Aniskdal (Grenland Friteater- Norway), Parvathy Baul (India) among others

About Tantidhatri

‘Tanti’ in the ancient Pali language, is imagined as a thread going beyond time; and ‘Dhatri’ is the woman who holds it. In the language of performing arts, this thread can have various meanings. It could be lineage, generations, teacher-student relationships, independent auto-didactic realities, the practice of workshops and training, traditional schooling in performing arts all over the world, the passing on of a craft through family connections or apprenticeship, or the absence of references. In this context, it symbolizes how performing knowledge and practice is transmitted from one generation to the other.

Tantidhatri brings together the performance works of women masters across the globe (both created from self-expression and sacred arts), ranging from Theatre, Music and Dance, to the Visual Arts, Ritual and Spirituality. It brings together a generation of women who now embody life-experience in their works, and who will share these experiences generously with their audiences. Tantidhatri Festival is an occasion to meet these women master practitioners, artists, intellectuals, writers and scholars from various backgrounds and lineages, as well as interact with them through workshops and talks.

Tantidhatri is inspired by Transit Festival created by actress-writer Ms. Julia Varley of the Odin Theatret, Denmark, who is also a founder-member of the Magdalena project. Like Transit and The Magdalena Project, Tantidhatri Festival in India is committed to nurturing an awareness of women’s contribution to the performing arts and to support exploration and research by offering concrete opportunities. Tantidhatri Festival encourages women to examine their role in the future of theatre and performance, by presenting their work, sharing methodologies, examining form as well as content and venturing into new collaborative projects.

Parvathy Baul
Co-founder, Ekathara Kalari
Curator, Tantidhatri

Update 06/12/2018