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This festival has two episodes: a week in Pondicherry/Auroville (11-15 March), featuring workshops, discussions and performances in the full Magdalena spirit; and the other in Mumbai, for two days (7-8 March), only with performances. An evening with Eugenio Barba will be held before the performances start.

Tantidhatri – is a festival of women performing arts practitioners across the globe. This is a festival inspired from the Transit festival created by actress and writer Ms. Julia Varly of Odin Teatret Denmark, also a founder member of Magdalena Project. This festival would be a first of its kind in Kerala. Like the Transit and The Magdalena Project, Tantidhatri Festival in India is committed to nurturing an awareness of women's contribution to performing arts and to support exploration and research by offering concrete opportunities to the discerning women, both in the profession and in life. Tantidhatri would function internationally to give voice to the concerns of women working in theatre today. The Tantidhatri Festival encourage women to examine their role in the future of theatre, by presenting their work, by sharing methodologies, by examining form as well as content and by venturing into new collaborative projects.

More information will follow as the planning progresses.

Contact Parvathy Baul, tantidhatri [at] gmail [dot] com, or visit the web site for further information.