ENSATT, National Superior School of Arts and Techniques of Drama, is a French public school which trains students for all performance linked occupations. They learn all components of artistic creation: scriptwriting, stage direction, acting, sound, lightings, scenography, costume, administration and technical management. ENSATT’s pedagogic policy encourages an experience-based learning process: students, during internships or creations, train with French and foreign professionals. No hierarchy could exist between Arts and Techniques. Each discipline includes both aspects which are unique, essential and revealed in the collective strength.

Since 2018, a proactive and militant policy is implemented to ensure an access to the world artistic’s repertoires of America, Africa, Asia, Europe and Oceania to ENSATT’s students. Following the He-Roes adventures and the forthcoming signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the National School of Drama (NSD) in Delhi, India has emerged as a significant partner for ENSATT in the global landscape.

Adishakti Laboratory for Theatre Art Research is a contemporary theatre research and repertory company near Pondicherry, India. It is a place where they engage in performance researches which enable the group to develop a unique theatrical language. These research findings are spread around through residential workshops open to artists from varied disciplines. Adishakti reaches out to other performance groups, artists and idea generators to evolve its own art practices, workshops, residencies, retreats, seminars and performances in a place that encourages hybrid expression. To quote its founder and late Veenapani: “The answer is in being hybrid; to nurture old knowledges but also to always be pluralistic in order not to be conditioned by positions and ideologies”.

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