Towards the Stillpoint

A physically intensive workshop, crafted for physical performers, dancers, practising and aspiring actors, musicians and all others intent on exploring the body as the source of creation. Come learn from a generous, riveting and gifted performer.

Add Presence, Body, Voice, Breath and Power to your art.

A 16-hour 4-day Intensive
2 – 6pm /Rs. 6500 and Rs 4500 for full time artists and students

Based on Sahrudaya – Theatre of Resonance

This is an approach to performance creation based on many years of research into traditional forms of performance, music, ritual, etc., as well as contemporary languages of movement and physical theatre.

Sahrudaya (literally, ‘of one heart’) refers to a performer who is in a state of radiance and grace, resonant with her/ his interior awareness, with the co-creators and with the space. It is the performer who has the courage to be vulnerable, to be spiritually naked, and to meet other human beings with this vulnerability, without pretence.

The basis of the work is the simple, everyday act of breathing, but looked at as a bridge between the inner and the outer world, and the foundation of the rhythmic, awakened body, a body alive to its own creative potential. The work draws upon elements from Kalaripayattu, Butoh and other forms, but ultimately focuses on the human body, the organic being, as the source of creation. It challenges the body and the imagination, improving our focus, attention, precision and presence, opening up a rich, dynamic language of the body and voice, full of a deep, inner life.

The work will include:

The Way of the Warrior – The Awakened Body:
1. Exercises of the breath, eye and face
2. Body conditioning and tuning through the ‘dynamics’, a set of exercises based on tension, opposition and symmetry, designed to give the performer a way of being in space with a heightened perception
3.Working on the unity of breath, gaze, movement and gesture
4. Awakening the rhythmic body through breathing and movement in space

How to be the River, the Wind – Impulse and Improvisation:
1. Working on improvisations both through spontaneity and structure; using contact, basic acrobatics and more
2. Opening up the organic voice by delving deep into the body and the sub-conscious
3. Experiencing the bhaava-s in our bodies through breath, rhythm and singing, finding expression
4. Finding intention, precision and flow through movement and song – finding connections with oneself, the partners and the space.
5. Working with text through breath, rhythm and images
6. Creating solo, duet and ensemble performance structures – towards a poetry of space

The workshop is open to professional performing artists, as well as students and all those who want to experience an intensive and technically rigorous training process

Please call on 9831243234 for more details.