Night of Theatre is a night-long festival of contemporary performing arts organized by Trimukhi Platform in the tribal village of Borotalpada. Artists from Europe, Asia and North and South America are invited to work for a few weeks with artists from the tribal village, and together prepare performances presented during the Night. Collaboration is developed with actors and dancers who are tribal farmers. Urban spectators coming from Calcutta city after mingle with the public from the tribal zone.
For NoT°9, artists from Calcutta, Borotalpada, Paris, Montréal, Madrid, Tokyo will rehearse together with tribal actors, dancers and musicians so to prepare in situ performances involving dance and music, sound installation, video-dance, reshaped landscape, theatre of presenting and theatre of object that they will showcase during NoT°9. The night-long program will starts with a walk to discover the tribal area and time to share with the villagers and will end with a multicultural dance party.
AC/E supports the participation of Cuqui Jerez, choreographer and performer who since 2001 has developed her own work. Her projects are mainly scenic but she also works with videos, texts, installations, publications, images and events. All these projects, regardless of their format, are choreographies and develop choreographic thinking.
The piece that Cuqui Jerez will create specifically for No 9 in Trimukhi Cultural Center will follow the line of his last works where he observes and practices the behavior of things. Cuqui works with actions where the body activates things in space. These things are different objects and materials, but work with them as matter, regardless of what the object represents or its usefulness, but observing its characteristics as matter: weight, color, texture, form, hardness, fragility, malleability, density, etc. The activation of things from the body can be given by interaction, manipulation or movement. The human body can function as a motor, like force, but it is in the background or even hidden. The energy of the human body may be present but not necessarily visible. In this work the idea exists to expand the choreography beyond the performer (human body) to the materiality of the world around us.
For NoT°9, artists from Calcutta, Borotalpada, Paris, Montréal, Madrid, Tokyo will rehearse together with tribal actors, dancers and musicians so to prepare in situ performances involving dance and music, sound installation, video-dance, reshaped landscape, theatre of presenting and theatre of object that they will showcase during NoT°9. The night-long program will starts with a walk to discover the tribal area and time to share with the villagers and will end with a multicultural dance party.
AC/E supports the participation of Cuqui Jerez, choreographer and performer who since 2001 has developed her own work. Her projects are mainly scenic but she also works with videos, texts, installations, publications, images and events. All these projects, regardless of their format, are choreographies and develop choreographic thinking.
The piece that Cuqui Jerez will create specifically for No 9 in Trimukhi Cultural Center will follow the line of his last works where he observes and practices the behavior of things. Cuqui works with actions where the body activates things in space. These things are different objects and materials, but work with them as matter, regardless of what the object represents or its usefulness, but observing its characteristics as matter: weight, color, texture, form, hardness, fragility, malleability, density, etc. The activation of things from the body can be given by interaction, manipulation or movement. The human body can function as a motor, like force, but it is in the background or even hidden. The energy of the human body may be present but not necessarily visible. In this work the idea exists to expand the choreography beyond the performer (human body) to the materiality of the world around us.