Unrehearsed Futures (S3) #9 From This Place to That Place: Re-directions of creative energy
In a special sitting of Unrehearsed Futures, we celebrated the book launch of ‘This Place / That Place’, written by Nandita Dinesh, a writer and researcher who has traversed through the cosmos of performing, theatre-making, activism and more. It also happens to be her first novel. At first glance, This Place / That Place feels not like […]
Adishakti: Reflecting on Veenapani Chawla’s legacy and shaping a constantly evolving ideology
Editor’s Note: India has a rich history in theatre, but our knowledge about the work our contemporaries and older groups have and are doing, is often limited to urban centres or the geographies we live in. Driven by a curiosity to know about the work being created across the country, for the next couple of […]
Amplifying The Queer Voice: Lessons from Queer People in the Performing Arts Industry
When I studied at drama school, students were asked to present a theatrical piece bringing the energy of a space and embody it, as part of our Theatre Making Lab activity. Understanding the space and squeezing into a tiny performance space felt like a restrictive activity. But, in addition to this, I wondered about how […]
Unrehearsed Futures (S3) #8 Seeding the Field: Experiencing the now, perpetually
We live in a world where we are conditioned to look for stability and balance. But if the events of the past two years have taught us anything, it is that we live in a perpetually chaotic world where we try to find and establish order. If we are to accept that we live in […]
Unrehearsed Futures (S3) #7 The Arc of The Dervish: Learning New Consciousnesses For An Ever-Changing Reality
By now, we’ve established that we are citizens of a perpetually chaotic world. The pandemic was one kind of a disruption. We are facing and fighting multiple kinds of wars each day – be it physical, political or ideological – and as we progress through time, we find ourselves in a world where it is […]
The Actor’s Resource: How to Choose a Drama School
Are you looking for a place that can train you in acting and help you acquire essential skills for moving ahead in the theatre and film industry? Looking for a drama school that provides such opportunities is a good place to start. There are some prominent drama schools in India—in both rural and urban spaces. […]
Unrehearsed Futures (S3) #6 Ukraine: The Show Must Not Go On
For all her life, Ukrainian theatre-maker and co-founder of the Ukrainian Physical Theatre School, Maria Koreneva was a pacifist and against war. As a Gestalt psychotherapist herself, she knew what collective trauma meant and hence she always argued against the need for aggression. She was the person who said, “the war should end, and then […]
Tick, Tick, Boom: Theatre as an Antidote and Solution to the Climate Change Crisis
I started my research for this article already in a deep state of overwhelm. Truthfully, I sometimes avoid climate data and information because it leaves me with an intense despair followed by romanticising and imagining a past I could’ve shared with nature had I not been born so late in the anthropocene. I am an […]
Curated Conversations: Dhwani Vij on her hybrid production ‘Rat’, pedagogy in digital space
This edition of Curated Conversations with actor, director and theatre educator, Dhwani Vij, was a deep dive into her one-of-a-kind digital hybrid production Rat. Dhwani says, Rat defines her process of theatre-making. Her process is influenced by what is happening at that moment in the life of the people who are making that performance. How […]
Unrehearsed Futures (S3) #5 Corporeal Vocabularies of Resistance and Potentiality
As people in the performing and creative arts, how do we deal with the idea of an unrehearsed ability of the future (as the pandemic revealed) and the rigours and strictures of absolutely essential regimentation, in order to ensure health? Exploring this and more, in our fifth conversation at Unrehearsed Futures (Season 3), we dove […]
Drama School Mumbai is Now Receiving Applications for the New Batch of its One-Year Post Graduate Course
Mumbai, March 31, 2022 Drama School Mumbai is now receiving applications for the new batch of its flagship postgraduate program in Acting and Theatre-Making that will commence in August 2022. Applications have been open since the 31st of March, 2022. Interested candidates can send in their written applications, CVs, and letters of reference. Unlike the […]
Unrehearsed Futures (S3) #4 Storming the Commons
To what extent can performance help us to generate meaningful encounters? Not only despite, but generated by the incapacitation that our chaotic world seems to produce? Probing these curiosities, we were joined by a pair of exciting activist-practitioners at a recent Unrehearsed Futures conversation – US-based Kat Purcell and South Africa-based Qondiswa James – who […]
Unrehearsed Futures (S3) #3 Pedagogy Under Fire: Transmitting & Recreating Theatre Making In The Context of War
We live in a constant state of flux, of madness, and instability; in a chaosmos. While the pandemic brought disruption to the fore, this state of instability, of being off-balanced has always been a part of our lives. As we delve deeper into living and creating in such a state in this season, we decided […]
Take A Child To The Theatre Day: Can Theatre Rebuild a Generation of Lost Childhood?
All around the world, we are now collectively stumbling to figure out what life means after two years of being in a pandemic. While everyone has suffered loss and been hurt by COVID-19, young people, in particular, have been robbed of the childhood they were supposed to have. With World Day of Theatre for Children […]
Curated Conversations: Jyoti Dogra on her digital performance ‘Nihayati Neeji Baatein’
Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.― Pablo Picasso The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. – Aristotle These two quotes perfectly defined the third edition of Curated Conversations with the eminent theatre-maker and actor Jyoti Dogra. She believes that non-narrative and non-textual […]
Unrehearsed Futures (Season 3) #2 From Our Correspondents: A Conversation Between Ukrainian and Russian Theatre Artists
We had a very unique session at our second Unrehearsed Futures conversation of Season 3, where we invited Ukrainian and Russian theatre artists to share their thoughts about the ongoing war in Ukraine, which Russia invaded on 24 February, 2022. A gut wrenching conversation, several artists from both countries shared their lived experiences, their fears, […]