Please find attached our final announcement of the
Intensive Drama Program 2012.
We have an amazing group of instructors and a venue with
reasonably priced accomodation options for participants from
out of town.
We encourage applications to come in at the earliest
(before seats fill) we will continue to take applications till
no later than Sunday the 20th of May.
I request you to spread the word to all your networks far and
wide.
H. Tomba: (Actor
and Director, H.Kanhailal's Kalakshetra Manipur) will
intensively immerse the actor in the science and practice of
voice, breathing and vocal resonance in the body. Manipuri
actors are famous for command and control of their voice and
their work with breathing, vocalisation and resonators in
the actor's body. Trained by Kanhailal and Sabitri Devi,
Tomba is now an accomplished teacher, director and composer
in his own right, having taught Manipuri theatre techniques
to actors both in India in Abroad.
Sankar Venkateswaran (Director
Theatre Roots and Wings, Trisshur School of Drama, TTRP
Singapore): His training and acting styles and approaches
from across the world are second to none in India. He will
take the actor through a process that explores acting from
the starting point of the pure actor, moving across styles,
finally arriving at pure character.
Benjamin Samuels, artistic
director, Limbik Theatre, ad visiting writer/director,
University of Cumbria, Carlisle, is a writer, director,
producer and performer of new works of physical, visual
theatre. Trained at London International School of
Performing Arts & Naropa University in Lecoq-based
actor-created theatre, as well as San Francisco School of
Circus Arts, Ben is an accomplished mandolinist and
multi-instrumentalist, and plays Balkan, gypsy and Jewish
music regularly with London's Shekoyokh Klezmer Ensemble.
Along with his work with Greek chorus, Ben will direct and
mentor participants in creating their own performances.
Chennai-based contemporary dancer
Preethi Athreya trained in Bharatnatyam under the
Dhananjayans as well as yoga. She holds a post-graduate
degree in Dance Studies from Laban Centre, London. "An
apologetic body marked as much by what it knows as by what
it keeps discovering," is her motto.
Regards,
Jehan Manekshaw
and
Padma Damodaran