Over the past several months, the COVID-19 pandemic has forced theatre pedagogues around the world to rethink ways of delivering teaching. In addition to the ongoing health crisis, the resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement, following the custodial killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, USA, led to protests across the world against systemic […]

For the longest time, theatre departments within schools and universities have faced the threat of elimination from the curriculum. With the COVID-19 pandemic affecting people and institutions world over, theatre pedagogues again faced the harsh possibility of shutting down their programs when the ability to congregate in physical spaces was taken away. In October this […]

The human brain is adept at finding patterns where none exist. The brain rushes to assign meaning to things it sees and perceives in its surroundings. Doing this helps offer one a sense of self-control. When the pandemic hit, theatre practitioners and pedagogues rushed to understand what it meant for the art form. Was performing […]

  When the year 2020 began, one did not foresee the period of upheaval and disruption that would follow due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Upheaval not just in terms of socio-economic and political losses but on a personal level, forcing professionals in different fields to take a long hard look and change something about existing […]

  When the COVID-19 pandemic forced people into their homes for months on end, people began working, learning and doing everything from home. What was, at first, considered a stop-gap measure soon turned into the norm and now, it seems to be so for the foreseeable future. Teaching theatre through Zoom windows and squinting in […]

  Over the last couple of months, there has been much talk and discussion about what is going to be the future of theatre given the adverse effect of the COVID-19 pandemic around the world. In the beginning, there was a swift movement towards online teaching and performance, and as time passed by the theatre […]

When the COVID-19 pandemic began, many thought of it as a blip in the road which would last for few weeks, and life would go back to how it was in a short period of time. When lockdowns, in countries around the world, began being extended, the pandemic was viewed as a pause in normal […]

Compiled and written by Phalguni Vittal Rao   When the year 2020 began, nobody could have prophesied that just three to four months in, the whole world will be forced to lock themselves in because of fear of a contagion: the novel coronavirus. For theatre practitioners, this was a curveball which took them some time […]

Compiled and written by Phalguni Vittal Rao A voice speaks volumes about a person. Voice work is considered a crucial element of actor training in drama schools around the world, closely connected to movement and acting. The late vocal coach Kristin Linklater believed that to free the voice was to free the person. Freeing the […]

Compiled and written by Phalguni Vittal Rao   It is going to be nearly six months since the World Health Organisation declared the COVID-19 outbreak as a pandemic on 11 March, 2020. In the weeks following the announcement, several countries went into lockdown, with businesses and schools shutting their doors. Many lost their jobs. With […]

Compiled and written by Phalguni Vittal Rao Several decades ago,  a Ukrainian-Israeli engineer and physicist by the name of Moshé Pinchas Feldenkrais said, “Nothing is permanent about our behaviour patterns except our belief that they are so.” During his life, he came to be known for developing a unique system of science and aesthetics aimed […]

  There have been many attempts to make sense of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. At the most basic level, it is a global health and economic disruption that simply brought life as we knew to a halt. Theatres closed their doors, drama schools could no longer teach in physical spaces, people lost livelihoods, deaths were […]