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The art of transforming gesture and expression into articulation

Partha Pratim trains young mime artistes in Chittagong

Abdullah Ai. Mahmud, Chittagong
Alliance Francaise, Chittagong recently became a rendezvous for mime artistes here in the port city.
In a euphoric mood the mime artistes gathered at the .Alliance Francaise auditorium at Chawkbazar where they found a rare opportunity to leant the art of communicating titrough physical gesture and facial expression.
Paris-based internationally renowned Bangladeshi mime artiste Partha Pratim Majumder had been there to train them at a five-day workshop (from November 20 to 24).
As many as 60 young mime artistes participated at the workshop jointly organised by School of Drama and Music and Natukey with the support of Alliance Francaise Chittagong.
Partha Prathim -- a torchbearer of universal mime developed by legendary French mime artiste Marcel Marceau --trained them on mime at a
five-hour session everyday.
While visiting such a training session, Partha Prathim was seen to teach with much finesse, the art of music and rhythm to transform body movement and gestures into form of articulation and express feeling of a motionless object coming to life.
As the session ended there was a rush of the learners to take blessings from Partha.
"1 want the art 1 have Introduced in my country to not die out with my death. 1 want to give whatever 1 can to the young mime artistes in Bangladesh," said Partha who looked happy to see so many eager learners around him.
Despite having hectic schedule of performing on stage and cinema in Canada and Europe, Partha, a patriot at heart, hesitated little to come back home early this month to perform on the occasion of Alliance Francaise anniversary in Bangladesh.
After his arrival in the country Partha conducted a
weeklong workshop (November 3-9) in the capital and a four-day workshop (November 14-17) in Barisal before coming to Chittagong.
Partha Pratim said he would be in India performing at different places beginning with Kolkata from January 10, 2010.
From February to May next year he would be touring Europe with his troupe that achieved the highest dramatic distinction: Moliere 2009 for the drama "Cochon d’lnde".