The Theatre Infrastructure Cell (TIC) was set up at India Foundation for the Arts (IFA) in April 2008 in partnership with the Navajbai Ratan Tata Trust (NRTT) with the overall objective to develop a facilitative environment for the practice of the performing arts in India. Our areas of focus in our pilot year were:

a) Research to build information, knowledge and capacity
b) Project Development
c) Advisory Support to organizations that create or enhance performance infrastructure. 

In keeping with the our areas of focus we conducted a baseline study to understand the need and demand of performance infrastructure in ten cities in India; we conducted case studies and commissioned articles on artists who have negotiated performance spaces differently, which will be published in a book titled “Beyond the Proscenium:Reimaging the Space for Performance”. We also undertook a study that explores and documents “found spaces” in Bangalore, their advantages and disadvantages, and compiled a bibliography of literature on theatre space design. 

We are currently in discussion regarding our plans for the upcoming years.