[Reader-list] "Breath and the Performer"

[rohitrellan at aol.in]

Dear Friends,
     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 contact:
*Priyanka*

*Programme Head*

*Phone*- +91 11 29522112

*Mobile*- + 91 9811656740

*Web *:- www.jamghat.in