Theatre Adda: Park Street sessions presents a very special session called Tout-Monde.
Performed by Gio Ju, Debjani, Abhik, Jakob, Urni & Bulada.
Jan 20,2025 from 7 pm onwards at Alliance Française du Bengal, Park St
Entry free and open to all
Tout- Monde
This imrov performance which is based on Butoh is an continuation from the Medi_Motion residency facilitated by Gio JU at Shantiniketan earlier this month. They are joined by Urni and Bulada.
The performance also borrows its name from which was coined by the Martiniquais poet and philosopher Édouard Glissant, the term “Tout-Monde” [All-World].
Since it is of interest in some ways to our practices, I elucidate a little bit more on Glissant and his work, quoting from this source.
“While Glissant’s work is saturated with references to the ‘natural’, his main interest seems in destabilising the nature-culture boundary. In his 1958 book ‘La Lézarde’, for instance, entities and phenomena normally relegated to ‘nature’ permeate every human action that is described. Through this constant permeation of the ‘cultural’ with the ‘natural’, the meaning of these ‘natural’ events and entities remain deeply unstable. In his later work, Glissant extends his attention to relations between the local and the global, especially the effects of globalisation. Against this ‘mondialisation’ (globalisation), he proposes a mondialité (variously translated as worldmentality, worldliness or worlding). Glissant’s translator Michael Dash describes the author’s aim as a dismantling of the individual and the ‘heroics of self-formulation’ (Dash, 1989: 609), through situating the mind in the body, and the body in relation to the world.
“Like Aimé Césaire, Glissant insists on poetics as a means of building new imaginaries, because of a disillusionment with political processes as a means of change. Poetics, he argues, may be, on the one hand, totally ineffective against oppression, but that also makes them powerful – they are at once outside of the system and within reach of those outside it. As part of his poetic intervention, Glissant has developed a rich repertoire of neologisms, partly influenced by Deleuze and Guattari, but also chaos theory. These describe aspects of Glissant’s relational vision of the world that is set against totalitarian structures of thought:
“Glissant’s name for the relations between all things is the world, which appears threefold: as tout-monde (the world in its entirety), écho-monde (the world of things resonating with one another) and chaos-monde (a world that cannot be systematized)” (Loock, 2012).”
About Theatre Adda Park Street Sessions
Theatre Adda are sessions of experiments in multiple performance and art practices and is organized by Alliance Française du Bengale and Culture Monks which are held once every month since October 2015 with a break of a few years of COVID & otherwise.
About COOLeaders program
Theatre Adda is part of the Masterpeace COOLeaders program. The Masterpeace COOLeaders is a global program which seeks to instill care for the environment (natural & cultural) and encourage climate action by individuals in their communities. COOLeaders program is also working towards the mental health of youth through the practice of arts, music & sports.
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