WORKSHOP "The Vanishing Body - Exploring Desire and Oblivion" by Arka Mukhopadhyay at Lokayata Mulk Raj Anand Centre, Hauz Khas Village > 4pm to 8pm on 17th to 20th May 2016
Time : 4:00 pm to 8:00 pm
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WORKSHOP "The Vanishing Body - Exploring Desire and Oblivion" by Arka Mukhopadhyay
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Lokayata Mulk Raj Anand Centre, Hauz Khas Village, New Delhi - 110016
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Entry : Cost: Full fee INR 4,000. Discounts are possible for professional artists and students.
To apply:
Write to arka.arshinagarproject@gmail.com, and mention:
i) Your name
ii) Contact Number
iii) Date of Birth
iv) Previous training in acting/ dance/ movement/ music (if any)
v) Previous experience as a performer (professional/ amateur - if any)
vi) Why would you like to be a part of this workshop?
Send in your applications by the 15th, and we will write back to you with the registration details. You will need to register by paying online by the 15th.
Selected participants will need to bring:
i) A short text that answer the theme of the workshop
ii) A song from their native language - preferably a folk song, the older the better. No bollywood songs, please
For enquiries, call: +91 9831731422
Venue : Lokayata Mulk Raj Anand Centre, Hauz Khas Village, New Delhi - 110016
Venue Info : Nearest Metro Station - 'Green Park(Yellow Line) Exit Gate - Gautam Nagar'
Event Description :
WORKSHOP "The Vanishing Body - Exploring Desire and Oblivion", a laboratory worksession to be led by Arka Mukhopadhyay, with the assistance of Vidushi Mehra. The workshop is a part of the ongoing research project, Songs of Desire. It is open to actors, dancers, musicians, performance artists, students of these disciplines as well as visual artists, psychologists, researchers, sociologists and all others interested in a rigorous and joyous exploration of breath, movement, voice, musicality and text
We shall work with elements that are fundamental to the actor's craft - intention, precision, spontaneity, tempo, rhythm, musicality and coordination. The basis of the work will be "Sahrudaya - Theatre of Resonance", an approach to performance craft based on many years of research into traditional forms which are the roots of performance.
We will start by opening up the body and voice through exercises that are physically and psychologically challenging, focusing on lightness, concentration, attention, spatial and kinetic awareness, opening up the natural voice and coordinating breath, voice and movement, in order to liberate the inner creative source, and then focus on working from a place of pure playfulness, while at the same time paying attention to minute, detailed aspects of craft.
About the Project:
Desire. Body twined with body. Breath mingling with breath. Sounds of love. Fulfilment and satiation, and also, separation and longing, eternal yearning. Through metaphors of earthly love, the desire for formless emptiness, for oblivion. The cry of the whirling Sufi for the Beloved. Of the Vaishnava for the dark lord, of the Baul for the Man of the Heart, ever present, ever unattainable. Through the body, to reach the unbodied, through sound to reach inner silence, through movement, stillness. Searching for wholeness, searching for...home.
The project is intended to explore 'desire', in both its carnal/ earthly as well as sacred/ mystical aspects, both union/ wholeness as well as separation/ longing.
The leading elements are the poem Zindaan Ki Ek Shaam (An Evening in Prison) by Faiz Ahmad Faiz and the short story The Hungry Stones (Kshudhito Pashan) by Tagore.
The project has various manifestations, such as performances, videos, lecture-demonstrations and workshops.
About the Workshop:
"the body vanishes, burns, and the spectator sees only a series of visible impulses" - Grotowski
Proposition:
Can the body become its own negation, becoming a perceptual vehicle? The worksession is not about the learning of new skills, techniques or tricks, but rather about the giving up of defenses, so that the body, through a process of passion and ecstasy, through acts of daring and transgression, loses its limitations, its own heaviness, and disappears into its own fullness. We will share a specific training developed within the project, "Songs of Desire', involving work on breath, rhythm, embodiment of the bhaava-s, circularity/ turning, dynamic impulse and other aspects. Underpinning the work will be Sahrudaya, our approach to the creative act, which focuses on the breath, flow, coordination and resonance with the self, the co-creators and the space.
Who is it for?
Although we are ideally looking for people with stage experience, what matters more than that is the sense of life and sense of Self a person brings to the process. So even if you are not a professional performer, if the theme interests you and if you think you'll be up for a rigorous, physically demanding worksession, do get in touch!
About the work-leader:
Arka Mukhopadhyay is a performer, director and teacher. He has been a junior artists fellow of the the ministry of culture, govt. of India, and a holder of the Inlaks India Theatre Awards grant. His performances and workshops have taken place all across India and also in Singapore, Spain, Greece and Croatia.
Related Links : Workshops
Entry : Cost: Full fee INR 4,000. Discounts are possible for professional artists and students.
To apply:
Write to arka.arshinagarproject@gmail.com, and mention:
i) Your name
ii) Contact Number
iii) Date of Birth
iv) Previous training in acting/ dance/ movement/ music (if any)
v) Previous experience as a performer (professional/ amateur - if any)
vi) Why would you like to be a part of this workshop?
Send in your applications by the 15th, and we will write back to you with the registration details. You will need to register by paying online by the 15th.
Selected participants will need to bring:
i) A short text that answer the theme of the workshop
ii) A song from their native language - preferably a folk song, the older the better. No bollywood songs, please
For enquiries, call: +91 9831731422
Venue : Lokayata Mulk Raj Anand Centre, Hauz Khas Village, New Delhi - 110016
Venue Info : Nearest Metro Station - 'Green Park(Yellow Line) Exit Gate - Gautam Nagar'
Event Description :
WORKSHOP "The Vanishing Body - Exploring Desire and Oblivion", a laboratory worksession to be led by Arka Mukhopadhyay, with the assistance of Vidushi Mehra. The workshop is a part of the ongoing research project, Songs of Desire. It is open to actors, dancers, musicians, performance artists, students of these disciplines as well as visual artists, psychologists, researchers, sociologists and all others interested in a rigorous and joyous exploration of breath, movement, voice, musicality and text
We shall work with elements that are fundamental to the actor's craft - intention, precision, spontaneity, tempo, rhythm, musicality and coordination. The basis of the work will be "Sahrudaya - Theatre of Resonance", an approach to performance craft based on many years of research into traditional forms which are the roots of performance.
We will start by opening up the body and voice through exercises that are physically and psychologically challenging, focusing on lightness, concentration, attention, spatial and kinetic awareness, opening up the natural voice and coordinating breath, voice and movement, in order to liberate the inner creative source, and then focus on working from a place of pure playfulness, while at the same time paying attention to minute, detailed aspects of craft.
About the Project:
Desire. Body twined with body. Breath mingling with breath. Sounds of love. Fulfilment and satiation, and also, separation and longing, eternal yearning. Through metaphors of earthly love, the desire for formless emptiness, for oblivion. The cry of the whirling Sufi for the Beloved. Of the Vaishnava for the dark lord, of the Baul for the Man of the Heart, ever present, ever unattainable. Through the body, to reach the unbodied, through sound to reach inner silence, through movement, stillness. Searching for wholeness, searching for...home.
The project is intended to explore 'desire', in both its carnal/ earthly as well as sacred/ mystical aspects, both union/ wholeness as well as separation/ longing.
The leading elements are the poem Zindaan Ki Ek Shaam (An Evening in Prison) by Faiz Ahmad Faiz and the short story The Hungry Stones (Kshudhito Pashan) by Tagore.
The project has various manifestations, such as performances, videos, lecture-demonstrations and workshops.
About the Workshop:
"the body vanishes, burns, and the spectator sees only a series of visible impulses" - Grotowski
Proposition:
Can the body become its own negation, becoming a perceptual vehicle? The worksession is not about the learning of new skills, techniques or tricks, but rather about the giving up of defenses, so that the body, through a process of passion and ecstasy, through acts of daring and transgression, loses its limitations, its own heaviness, and disappears into its own fullness. We will share a specific training developed within the project, "Songs of Desire', involving work on breath, rhythm, embodiment of the bhaava-s, circularity/ turning, dynamic impulse and other aspects. Underpinning the work will be Sahrudaya, our approach to the creative act, which focuses on the breath, flow, coordination and resonance with the self, the co-creators and the space.
Who is it for?
Although we are ideally looking for people with stage experience, what matters more than that is the sense of life and sense of Self a person brings to the process. So even if you are not a professional performer, if the theme interests you and if you think you'll be up for a rigorous, physically demanding worksession, do get in touch!
About the work-leader:
Arka Mukhopadhyay is a performer, director and teacher. He has been a junior artists fellow of the the ministry of culture, govt. of India, and a holder of the Inlaks India Theatre Awards grant. His performances and workshops have taken place all across India and also in Singapore, Spain, Greece and Croatia.
Related Links : Workshops
WORKSHOP "The Vanishing Body - Exploring Desire and Oblivion" by Arka Mukhopadhyay at Lokayata Mulk Raj Anand Centre, Hauz Khas Village > 4pm to 8pm on 17th to 20th May 2016
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