Alliance Française of Madras hosts a night of music, dance, and theatre

Crowds akin to a ‘first time archetypal show’ screening of a Rajinikanth flick recovered themselves enmeshed astatine the Alliance Française of Madras connected the 3rd variation of La Nuit Blanche (The White Night) connected October 11. At 3am the pursuing day, astatine slightest 3,000 radical near the venue aft having watched a slate of performances involving song, dance, theatre, and splendour.

La Nuit Blanche means sleepless nighttime successful French. The festival began successful Paris astir 2002, and is present an yearly planetary phenomenon. Patricia Théry Hart, director, Alliance Française of Madras, said that erstwhile they began this lawsuit 3 years agone successful Chennai, the purpose was to get much radical to sojourn the Alliance campus. This is wherefore they enactment unneurotic a well-curated database of performances — a fusion of French finesse and Tamil panache. This is simply a signifier they continued pursuing for the adjacent 2 years, starring to a surge successful the fig of radical visiting the festival each year. This year, the taxable was based connected the play Moulin Rouge!

This time, the outdoor venue saw performances by bands similar Office Ganaa and Uru Pannar. The main signifier saw theatre plays that won accolades astatine the Short + Sweet festival by Prakriti Foundation. In enactment with the theme, modern dancer Preethi Athreya debuted her show Rubber Girl in Chennai. Wild Wild Women, a radical of fierce rappers, were besides portion of the mix. The usually soundless room saw radical singing to their heart’s contented during the karaoke show and an immersive cube that often splashed the images to techno and dubstep euphony by Omnivoid and Cursorama stole the show. Fashion decorator Ashwin Thiyagarajan’s ensembles grew rather the crowds excessively arsenic a makeshift ramp was arranged astatine the entranceway of Alliance precocious successful the evening. Despite the nighttime ending astatine 3am, thousands stayed back, watching the Bommalattam performance.

Since the show that began from noon to dawn elicited a sizeable audience, this begs the question ‘Does Chennai request much chill events?’. Srikanth, organiser, Chennai Scene, who was astatine Alliance confirms this. “The crushed wherefore the lawsuit was specified a occurrence is due to the fact that determination was thing for radical of each ages. Everyone was determination conscionable for the emotion of art. I saw an older man locomotion retired astatine 3am. It’s thing I haven’t seen before. I’ve seen and been portion of organising galore events successful the metropolis and I bash not person to spell it out, but we request more,” helium says.

Patricia, the director, says that adjacent year, a caller manager volition instrumentality over, but if she had to ideate the setting, it would beryllium a decor retired of a French comic publication oregon the landscapes of Provence with fields of lavender. Something to look guardant to.