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Chennai’s precocious nighttime country is nary longer relegated to the nutrient streets of Anna Nagar alone. On October 11, the Alliance Française of Madras brings backmost the 3rd variation of La Nuit Blanche (The White Night), an all-night taste fete, with a show slate that includes an interweaving of French and Tamil artistes and their traditions — deliberation cabaret, gaana, past Tamil instruments, hip-hop, and manner — fusing French and Indian cultures with the pomp of theatre.
This year, the festival is modelled connected Moulin Rouge!, the philharmonic acceptable successful the bohemian mecca of Montmartre successful Paris, France, astatine the crook of the 20th Century. Patricia Théry Hart, director, Alliance Française of Madras, says that hosting an all-night taste lawsuit successful Chennai brings with it, a thrill similar nary other. “Local endowment and French decor travel unneurotic astatine this event. Last year, erstwhile the manner amusement happened astatine the event, it felt similar a couture runway. Let’s conscionable commune it does not rainfall this twelvemonth though,” she says.
At The White Night, expect to spot performances of the French tin can, a fast-paced creation signifier by Sabitha Srinath starting from 5pm. This is too a screening of Moulin Rouge, a amusement by Wild Wild Women Rappers, a Tamil and hip-hop street-style collaboration, Bommallatam, a puppet show, by TS Murugan and his team, and Office Gaana, the band.
The Red Dream (Le Rêve Rouge), a ocular acquisition by Cursorama, a media creator and decorator moving with generative creation and immersive installations, volition beryllium moving with Roy Dipankar of Omnivoid Labs connected mounting up an grounds with visuals from Moulin Rouge. The visuals volition respond to sounds by artistes from bands similar No Latency and The Objects too 2 artistes including Kushboo and Raj Kanwar Sodi. Expect to perceive jazz riffs with debased guitar sounds, dub step, drum and bass, dub techno, too electronica, ambient and intelligent creation music. The amusement begins astatine 5pm and volition spell connected till 2am. Roy says that they anticipation radical volition interact with their audio-reactive cube that brings distant antithetic kinds of sounds and antithetic textures. Their amusement begins astatine 5pm.
Contemporary dancer Preethi Athreya | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement
“Cabaret successful the 1980s was a premix of espionage and a communicative told done beardown characters who would not backmost down. Helen, for instance, is one,” says Preethi Athreya, modern dancer. After a twelvemonth of probe into the tract of Indian cabaret astatine Cité Internationale des Arts successful Paris, Preethi is acceptable to bring her amusement Rubber Girl to the assemblage from her hometown astatine 8pm. “Cabaret asks galore questions. You cognize whose bodies you are selling? What attitudes are you selling? There are galore absorbing aspects of capitalism versus ideology versus colonialism versus station colonialism that are discussed here,” she says.
Patricia, the director, says that since the fusion of French and Indian, peculiarly Tamil civilization is an important facet of the event, performances of villupaatu, bommalattam, Carnatic fusion and a performance of past Tamil instruments volition beryllium organised. Thanganila Palsuvai Kalikuzhu volition beryllium bringing karagattam, thappattam and poikkal kuthirai performances to the venue.
Artist Si Su, portion of Uru Pannar, says that their show, volition person past Tamil instruments dating backmost to the 4th Century being played. One specified instrumentality is the yaal, reconstructed by Tharun Sekar, a instrumentalist and instrument-maker. Much of their eight-piece set volition play sounds and anticipation to revive the euphony from the Sangam ages. “But we bash not play euphony that is an ancient, unrelatable language. It is euphony with a modern twist,” Si Su says. Their amusement begins astatine 9.15pm.
For details astir the lawsuit astatine Alliance Française of Madras, Nungambakkam, sojourn @afmadras connected Instagram.
