[Reader-list] The Arshinagar Project in February - Kerala, Bangalore and More

[Arka Mukhopadhyay]

                    January started with a fantastic five-day Butoh
intensive with the master, Rhizome Lee, in the magical setting of Tepantar
Theatre Village. We also had Uttam Das Baul leading voice work - all in all
a truly transforming five days amid earth, river and sky. At the end of the
workshop, we presented a performance, "Oneness", on January 11th at the
Proscenium Art Centre in Kolkata. You can read about the performance in
this review: http://www.bongrong.com/buzz/butoh-the-beauty-of-pain-2/

Right after this, we played host to the legendary Jean- Jacques Lemêtre,
music director of  Le Théâtre du Soleil
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from January 16th to 18th. Jean-Jacques led a workshop, "The Musical Body",
which was attended by actors and musicians from Kolkata and gave us an
insight into his working methods. On the final day, he also made a
presentation about his work with
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Théâtre du Soleil. You can read more about the workshop here:
http://www.bongrong.com/buzz/the-musical-body-workshop-with-jean-jacques-lemetre/

February will find us in the southern parts of India.We are teaming up with
Innerspace Little Theatre, Irinjalakuda, Kerala, for an intensive
performance laboratory which will be led by Arka Mukhopadhyay. It will take
place in Walden Pond House, the beautiful base of Innerspace Little Theatre
in Irinjalakuda. from February 9th - 12th. It'll bring together an
extraordinary group of artists, who will explore the very special energies
of night-time work through a rigorous psycho-physical investigation of
Hamlet. For more details, please visit this link: http://wp.me/P2sKej-3v.
If you're an artist (actor/ dancer/ musician/ performer) who'd like to be a
part of this, please get in touch with us on +919447189781 or e-mail:
thearshinagarproject at gmail.com

Arka will also be performing "If It Be Now - Fragments and Impressions of
Hamlet" at the beautiful space of Paradigm Shift in Bangalore on the 14th
of February at 7:30 PM. This is the only show of the piece planned in
Bangalore this year, so if you missed the shows in October, do try to come
this time. To read about the piece, which has been performed to acclaim
throughout the country, including most recently at the Ekaharya Performance
Festival in Kerala; and which will be travelling to Singapore and Croatia
in the summer, please go here: http://wp.me/P2sKej-3D
To register, please contact: 9663427315 or e-mail:
thearshinagarproject at gmail.com

We are also very happy to collaborate with DreamScope Theatre , Bangalore,
who will be hosting a two-day workshop on the 14th and 15th of February, to
be led by Arka Mukhopadhyay. The workshop is open to all, irrespective of
their background or professional experience. To know more or apply, please
visit this link: http://wp.me/P2sKej-3A

Before we end, a message from our friends at Theatre House, a theatre space
in Santiniketan, West Bengal that conducts fundamental research on the
sources of performance traditions under the leadership of the
master-performer Abani Biswas. They are hosting the

legendary Nicolas Nunez, one of Grotowski's principal post-theatrical
collaborators, will be in India in February, running a workshop at Theatre
House Milòn Mèla
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in Shantiniketan. This is absolutely not to be missed!

There are also workshops with Agnieszka Korytkowska-Mazur (Poland) and
Dipan Shivaraman (India) - please click on the link for details. There are
separate, extremely affordable participation charges for Indian
participants, so don't hesitate to apply - the contact details are given on
the page:
http://fattiditeatro.it/fdt/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Kala-Mela-I-edition-2015.pdf

And before we end, a reminder - there is one more week to apply for the
Ghosts of Shakespeare Festival, 2015. If you haven't sent in your
application yet, do it now! Please read the call for applications for
details: http://wp.me/P2sKej-2Y

Love and Light,
Team Arshinagar

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