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 […]
DSM Global Faculty Programme: Shakespeare in Practice with Vik Sivalingam
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 […]
Drama from Behind Closed Doors: Part II: The show goes on
“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 […]
Unrehearsed Futures: Response-ability: Theatre Pedagogy in Changing Times
November 5th 2020: Theatre Pedagogy as Activism with Dr Nesreen Hussein | Middlesex University London & Amy Russell | Embodied Poetics November 19th 2020: An Actor Prepares for? with Kamili Okweni Feelings | Guide, Embodied Poetics Linus Tunström | CEO and Artistic Director, Uppsala city Theatre, Sweden Julie Beauvais | Co-director, Zurich Festival for New […]
Drama from Behind Closed Doors: A snapshot of DSM’s response to the Covid 19 pandemic
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 […]
Dramaturgy : Questions and Clarifications with Sophia Stepf
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 […]
Theatre Stalwart Chandra Dasan’s Approach to Dramaturgy
Chandradasan (born December 1958) is a theatre director, actor and writer from Kerala, India. He has directed 35 plays in Malayalam, English, Sanskrit, Kannada, Lithuanian, Finnish and Tamil. Chandradasan won the National award for the best play at Mahindra Theatre Festival for his play Karnabharam, New Delhi in 2008. He has achieved many awards for […]
My Home at the Intersection – a successful Experiment in Dramaturgy
Abhishek Thapar (1985, Moga) is a theatre maker, performer, puppeteer and artist based in Amsterdam. He holds a post-graduate diploma in Physical Theatre from LISPA, London and a Master in Theatre degree from DAS Theatre, Amsterdam. Currently, he is building an artistic research and practice in post-colonial epistemologies, historiographic metafiction and storytelling. DSM writer Pranita […]
Dramaturgy: A German Approach by Gotz Leineweber
Götz Leineweber holds an MA in cultural anthropology, theatre studies and philosophy from University of Cologne. He worked as an editor and journalist and got his postgraduate degree in cultural journalism from the University of Arts, Berlin in 2004. From 2004 he has been working as a dramaturg, first at Volksbühne (2004-07, Artistic Director: Frank […]
In conversation with Yuki Ellias
Yuki Ellias is an actor, theatre- director and corporate coach. She trained at the Jacques Lecoq School of Theatre in Paris and is a trained pedagogue from the London International School of Performing Arts. As an actress, she has performed in the UK, US, Canada, Australia, Italy and India. Her theatre company Dur Se […]
Pranita Pandurangi in Conversation with Bruce Guthrie
After directing critically acclaimed plays and musicals all over the world, Bruce Guthrie was recently appointed Head of Theatre and Films at the National Centre for the Performing Arts, Mumbai. Bruce has directed Constellations, a play by Nick Payne. It opened for its second run at NCPA on the 21st of November […]
Aadyant: From the beginning to the end
On the 13th and 14th of June, DSM Batch 2018-19 performed in their school for the very last time as students. This is a short review of the event and their year-long learning. Aadyant. Aadyant and the preparation leading up to it. Photo Credit: Poulomi Dey Each year, the PG Course in Acting & Theatre-making […]
That Theatre Life: Conversations with Theatre-makers who switched careers to make theatre
A couple of months ago, we decided to ask theatre-makers, what they were doing before they started doing theatre. This is a significant question in India. Here, by many standards, theatre is still a developing industry. We don’t know the stories of too many theatre-makers who planned their careers in theatre and pursued them with […]