Gotipua Fading Away

For centuries, Gotipua has been performed, in Orissa India, by boys who dress up as girl. This art is fading away, some teachers are disappearing others resign... Because the first problem is the disaffection of the audience who is attracted by other things and when the artist has no audience, he die, his art die. This photo is part of a long-term research and archival work, to reflect a diversity in performing arts that is disappearing.

Documenting Perforing Arts is like working on a theme as important as climat change, a process that seems inexorable, but dealing with a human knowledge that is disappearing.
The roots of traditional theater are fading away, young generations are not eager to spend 10 years learning a movement, a dance. Every theater master I met in Asia told me that. In india less and less people are interested in kathakali, Gotipua, Mallakhamb.

All these practices demand a lot of rules and disciplines, and in Asia it takes a lifetime to achieve a good level to perform on stage. In Asia, theater takes part in everyday life. It is something of a ceremonial religious rite.
Rather than a quest for exoticism, this project is an archival work to reflect a diversity that may disappear.