CHHAU NACH, ON THE ROAD TO JHARKHAND

The modernizing of a traditional art

Synopsis

An Italian choregraph travels to the Indian tribal areas of West Bengal and Jharkhand, home of an exhausting male dance using enormous masks.

Like India, this spectacular art form is in mutation, opening to foreigners and female performers.

This film is a colorful journey and a reflexion at how traditional art can benefit from modernity.