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Françoise Calvel 

Click to zoom the imageShe became a performing artist in 1988, in Strasbourg, after a deep training in drama at the national drama academy.
Since then she has always worked with differents techniques such as masks, clowns, body expression, contemporary dance, commedia dell'arte, fencing, kathakali.
She also worked abroad as event manager (Bulgaria, Crete, Dominican Republic, Sri Lanka)
She worked as a performer or producer with theatre troups such as 'Confluence Theatre','Les comédiens associés', 'Pirouette circus'. The performances could be classical as well as children shows, street performance, all over France.
Since 1996 she is a part of the company 'A contre jour' she is producing commedia dell'arte show as well as workshop in schools.
Since 2002 she also played children shows with 'Le petit chene'
In 2000 she created her own company 'Vaguedivague' in order to develop pluridisciplinary bonds with different artistic network.
Her encounter with India became determining in 2003  during a Kathakali training in Kochi.
She is co-director of Paalam-Inde-France
Françoise Calvel and Co
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Murielle IKARETH

Click to zoom the imageIndia became her adoptive land when she travelled first in 1989.
Till 1996 she lived in Varanasi where she learnt Classical Indian Dance of Bharata Natyam and studied Indian Art History from Benares Hindu University.
She started to teach French language in Indian schools, then in the French School in New Delhi for 5 years.
She created her first contemporary dance troup with two others dancers, Elise Ricadat and Gilles Chuyen, also choreographer. Indian dancers soon joined them and together created 3 performances : 'con tempo' (1996), 'passing birds (1997), 'passages' (1998).
In 1999 she is going to Kerala in South India where she will be educational coordinator for Alliance Française.
She created two multi-disciplinary performances : musicians, dancers, actors, acrobats, painters, mixing Western and Indian artists.
In 2004, she was artistic coordinator for professional artistic workshops : kathakali, mohini attam, carnatic music.
She is co-director of Paalam-Inde-France.
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