Arka Mukhopadhyay | | As part of 'The Art of the Performer', a series of weekend workshops in aid of Jamghat, we are presenting Breath and teh Performer, an intensive workshop on breath
Jamghat (www.jamghat.in), a non-profit organization, works for the rehabilitation of street children and has always been involved in theatre for creating awareness and raising funds. Till November, I am facilitating a workshop every weekend on different aspects of performance, and also how performance skills are useful to professionals, trainers, facilitators, educators, counsellors, etc.
The workshops are open to actors, dancers, performance artists, musicians, those engaged in the fine arts, teachers, facilitators, counsellors, psychologists, and anyone interested in the physical, emotional and spiritual aspects of being human.
Details of the workshop follow :
"Breath and the Performer"
Date: October 10th and 11h (Saturday and Sunday)
Time: 12: 00 to 18 : 00 (both days)
Age : 18 years and above
Contact: Amit - 9818705715
Address: F-2 First Floor Lado Sarai New Delhi-30
Fees: 2000/- (Includes cost of materials, lunch and tea. Need based discounts available)
This workshop will focus on the role of breath in performance and in life. Breath is the most fundamental life process, and yet the one that weare most disconnected with. This workshop will attempt to reconnect us with our inner selves by working with the breath; and thus develop presence, the voice, awareness of the body and space, develop our ability to deal with stress and with our emotions, resolve inner and outer conflicts, and be more mindful, present and engaged human beings.
Areas to be explored include:
Breath and the Self
Breath and movement
Breath and the voice
Breath and emotions - the navarasaas
Facilitator's profile:
Arka Mukhopadhyay has been a poet, director/ performance maker, performer, Spoken Word artist, storyteller and performance artist; and is now researching into actor training processes and paratheatre. He founded and was the artistic director of Logos Theatre. He has taught drama at the Mallya Aditi International School, Bangalore and has performed, conducted workshops and has been a visiting artist/ teacher at prestigious institutions including International School of Singapore, Millenia Institute, Singapore, Dunman High School, Singapore, Chrishtu Jayanti College, Bangalore, School Vivekananda, Bangalore, Bombay International School, Icfai Business School, Pune, Good Shepherd International School, Ooty, The International School, Bangalore, The High Range School, Munnar, Pearly Dew School, Shillong, The American Embassy School, Delhi, Christ University, Bangalore, Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology, Bangalore, Holy Cross College, Trichy, IP College for Women, Delhi, Jamia Milia Islamia University (as a visiting fellow), Delhi, JNU, Delhi, LSR College, Delhi, Pondicherry University Dept. of Performing Arts and IIT, Delhi (as an invited performer at the conference 'Writing The Future' organized by the IIT and the Asia Pacific Writing Partnership). He has performed at the Festival for Alternative Expressions in Theatre 2009 in Zagreb, Croatia and was also one of the invited guests at the lit up festival 2009 in Singapore.
He has performed all over India, as well as in Singapore and Zagreb. He was one of the invited workshop facilitators (on performance poetry for children) at the prestigious Kalaghoda Festival, 2008 in Bombay. His poetry has been published in various national and international journals, such as Drunken Boat, Quay, New Quest, The Battered Suitcase and the Quarterly Literary Review Singapore; and he is the winner of the TFA Creative Writing Award, 2008.
His workshop, 'Selves, Masks, Performance', has been delivered numerous times to both the general public, as well as with schools, businesses and theatre groups.
He regularly works with educational institutions - both schools and colleges, performing and conducting workshops for both students and faculty members. He is deeply committed to theatre education and theatre-in-education. As a part of this, he has taken up an individual project, 'Shakespeare and Me' which is a Shakespeare-in-schools initiative meant to carry Shakespeare's work to children of not only privileged urban backgrounds but also the urban and rural disadvantaged, in multiple languages and through their own contexts. He especially intends to take this project to children living under conditions of conflict and oppression, in order to help them transcend these situations through the power of Shakespeare's words. His workshops for teachers have included performative strategies for teaching Shakespeare, as well as the teacher as storyteller. His interest in working with children from non-privileged backgrounds have seen him working on dramatic expression with children from a village in Tamil Nadu (at the Udavi School, managed by Auroville), street children in Bangalore (at Bosco Mane, a centre for rescued street children), and underprivileged urban children and young adults at Sukrupa, an educational facility in Bangalore. He has worked on theatre in conflict (through Theatre Of The Oppressed) with Sri Lankan Tamil people as part of a course on gender, diversity and conflict at Visthar, an NGO in Bangalore, and has facilitated a workshop on theatre in conflict for a group of community workers and activists from all over South East Asia at the same space, has co-facilitated a workshop for The Action North-East Trust in Assam, and has facilitated a workshop for the Serbian Cultural Centre, Zagreb, where the text of Macbeth was explored through movement, gesture and song, in both English and Serbo-Croat, with the aim of re-living and negotiating the experience of the Balkans war. His other work includes a workshop on body, self and presence with Ritanjali Night School in Delhi (with a group of adolescent boys who work as casual labourers, shop assistants, etc.), and work on learning through movement with young children of labourers at the Jaindera slum near Delhi through ISCA, a Delhi based NGO.
For more details on Jamghat:
*Phone*- +91 11 29522112
*Mobile*- + 91 9811656740 (Priyanka)
*Web *:- www.jamghat.in
*Google group* - groups.google.com/group/jamghat
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