A Ballerina in a Mask: Artistic Dilemmas in Pandemics. Image Courtesy: AtlasObscura UNREHEARSED FUTURES  Discussing questions facing drama schools, teachers and students of theatre in the Post-COVID world Unrehearsed Futures is a series of public conversations between heads of drama schools and leading performance trainers from across the globe to discuss and address the new […]

August brings Ellen Lauren and J. Ed Araiza from SITI Company, New York to DSM! Apply now for this truly unique opportunity to work with Suzuki Method and Viewpoints training. 17th August to 28th August | 6 sessions | 7 pm – 9 pm IST Workshop Fees: Rs 7000/- Apply for the Workshop: https://forms.gle/WpPHMkKR2nfnyg4Y9 WORKSHOP […]

Amy Russell was a pedagogic student of M. Jacques Lecoq in the nineties. Since then she has gone on to found not one, not two but three internationally recognized training programmes in physical theatre. She is also an award-winning playwright. And this month, the Global Faculty Programme offers you the chance to devise and write […]

Contextualizing Continued Training in Performance-making “We turn to the arts when we are joyful; we turn to the arts when we grieve. And in times of uncertainty and despair, we turn to the arts again for sustaining our hopes. The arts enable us to forge solidarities, make sense of the present, and come together to […]

The Global Faculty Programme is a series of workshops for practising theatre-makers, actors, writers, directors and even filmmakers. The Faculty for these workshops comes from drama schools, companies and performance traditions across the world. Each month a Global facilitator will lead six sessions over video-conferencing for a group of about fifteen Indian participants seeking new […]

“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” – Socrates The Covid pandemic and the ensuing lockdown have changed the way we do a lot of things. It has given us time and reason to introspect and examine our commitments to things […]

The global Covid-19 crisis has forced a new way of thinking, of imagining a no-contact creative-economy. There are a lot of thoughts at this time – some from digital pedagogy experts and some from those who have just started experiments within the online learning environment. We’ve put together some links and resources for you to […]

The term dramaturgy first appears in the work Hamburg Dramaturgy (1767–69) by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, who is also credited with first creating and practicing this discipline. Although every production inherently has its own dramaturgy by virtue of the artists working on the context of the play, a dramaturg is a dedicated person on the creative […]