Unrehearsed Futures (Season 2) #5 Carcerality, Ritual and Spectatorship: Prisoners Coming Home
One of the things that the past year has compelled theatre-makers to think about the nature of participation in theatre in physical and virtual spaces. It has compelled makers to introspect the role of theatre in a society. At the fifth Unrehearsed Futures session, Australian theatre-maker James Brennan and Dr Asher Warren, Head of Theatre […]
Unrehearsed Futures (Season 2) #4 Theatre Making: Transference and Transposition – Notes from across the boundaries of the original medium
As the world continues to battle coronavirus and theatre practitioners engage with the idea of what theatre is and can be, creators Amitesh Grover and Benjamin Samuels have been pushing the boundaries of the form and creating interdisciplinary work for a long time. At a recent Unrehearsed Futures conversation, they shared their foray into using […]
Marathi theatre in Mumbai: Then & Now
For the past 84 years, Mumbai Marathi Sahitya Sangh (MMSS) has endeavored to promote the Marathi language and literature through a variety of initiatives. As art is an important vehicle to promote language and literature, they built an association with the Drama School Mumbai (DSM) in 2013, to help forge a new generation of […]
Unrehearsed Futures (Season 2) #3 The Many Lives of Red Peter: On Theatre Making (it), before and after the pandemic
One year on from when the COVID-19 pandemic took over our lives, uncertainty has gripped our hands again and is unlikely to let go any time soon. As India battles a devastating second wave of the disease, theatre-makers and pedagogues are back in their houses again discussing and reflecting on what theatre is and can […]
Unrehearsed Futures (Season 2) #2 Transcendence: Thinking expansively about theatre and performance training
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has brought forth crucial questions for theatre pedagogues and practitioners: Is knowing how to do theatre enough? Is theatre to be taught as something you only do on stage? How do we take the skills of theatre-maker and apply it to something beyond this form? For Ndoni Khanyile, a broadcast journalist, […]
Unrehearsed Futures (Season 2) #1 Planetarity in Theatre Pedagogy
It’s been more than a year since the COVID-19 pandemic began. What was initially perceived as a ‘temporary disruption’ has now turned into the ‘new normal’ over the past year. Countries like India are in the midst of a vociferous second wave of infections. Around this time last year, the thought of teaching drama online […]
Stepping Stones: in an actor’s journey
Doing theatre is not just about being on stage and performing. In fact, what one sees on stage is only a manifestation of theatre. Doing theatre is about the process. It is about peeling away layers of one’s self and the stories one wants to tell. It is the lives we lead, the human […]
What is the function of an artist in society?
The function of the artist in a disturbed society is to give awareness of the universe, to ask the right questions, and to elevate the mind. – Marina Abramovic, Serbian conceptual and performance artist, philanthropist, writer & filmmaker In 2020, during peak pandemic, a Singapore Times poll classified artists among the top non-essential jobs. Ironic, […]
Unrehearsed Futures #19: What’s Mime is Yours with Daniel Stein and Norman Taylor
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 realities of teaching drama. These discussions look at pedagogical approaches to teaching in the absence of presence, the benefits and challenges of alternative technologies, formats and mediums as […]
Devising Self with Warona Seane: Global Faculty Programme
This November, Warona Seane, joins us from South Africa with a workshop about Fictionalizing the Self. Sign up for the Global Faculty Programme: Devising Self with Warona Seane 6 Sessions | 17th – 27th November | Every alternate day | 17:30 to 19:30 India Workshop Fees: Rs 7000/- Workshop Takeaways: This workshop is about fictionalising […]
Transformation Into Character with Micaela Miranda
Micaela Miranda is a director, movement director and teacher, and academic researcher for the discipline of actor movement. She trained as an actor in Portugal then moved to Paris to train at L’École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq and Ecole Philippe Gaulier. Moved by the question “What is theatre for?” Micaela has […]
Way Ahead of His Times: A Tribute to Ebrahim Alkazi by Priti Bakalkar
Circa August 2016. I received a call from my friend Quasar asking me if I would like to work on Alkazi Foundation’s exhibition “Theatre of E. Alkazi”, curated by Amal Allana and Nissar Allana. To be honest till then besides the fact that he headed National School of Drama, I did not know much […]
Finding Your Authentic Voice With Barbara Houseman
Voice Coach Barbara Houseman has worked with Kenneth Branagh, Jude Law and Daniel Radcliffe among others. Join her for September’s Global Faculty Programme. 6 Sessions | Every Friday | 18 Sep – 23 Oct | 11:30 am – 1:30 pm IST Workshop Fees: Rs 7000/- APPLY NOW: https://forms.gle/4Tz4xHQFd5sCTwdw7 Workshop Takeaways: Deepen your understanding of Body-Breath, […]
Suzuki Method and Viewpoints Training with J.Ed Araiza & Ellen Lauren (SITI Company, New York)
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 […]
Rewilding your living room! A Workshop in Performative Writing with Amy Russell
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 […]
Across Space, Through Screens: DSM’s Global Faculty Programme
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 […]