For many years, choreographer, director and translator Annette Leday has been developing an original approach to contemporary inter-cultural creation based on the traditions of dance and theatre in India and France. She went to India in 1978 to study Kathakali dance-theatre in Kerala at the Sadanam and Kalamandalam institutions. She took part in the performances of the two troupes in India and abroad. A graduate of the Paris Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilisations, she is fluent in Malayalam. Since 1989, she has directed the Annette Leday/ Keli company for Indian and Western dancers, actors, musicians and visual artists. As part of the India Committee of the Maison Antoine Vitez in Paris, she recently initiated and participated in the French translation of seven contemporary Indian plays.
Cyrille Larrieu
Cyrille Larrieu is a French director, cameraman and globe-trotter. After his studies in the humanities (history and ethnology) at Paris University. Cyrille Larrieu went to India in order to further his research field and to study filmmaking at the Indian National Film Institute, the FTIL
He spent six years in the subcontinent making a number of documentary and fictional films, before returning to France in 2013. Cyrille Larrieu then realised several feature documentaries for television in Siberia, Quebec,
