Category Archives: Performing arts

Where are the clowns?

“Hi, I am Yulia and I am very stupid!” Hello, I am sane, I did not join a cult and you do not have to be concerned about me:-). This week I went through a fantabulous clowning workshop with Jef … Continue reading

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13th Bharat Rang Mahotsav

Bharat Rang Mahotsav, a Theatre Festival at Delhi, is such a treat! This annual theatre festival organized by the National School of Drama is 13th since its inception. It features national and international performances. Still is on till 22 January. … Continue reading

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Drama as therapy: theater exercises helping to heal

“Be what you are.  This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.” ~Julius Charles Hare “The modern use of dramatic process and theatre as a therapeutic intervention began with Psychodrama. The field has expanded to allow many … Continue reading

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The Inner Child – Theater Therapy for Adults

We were all children once. When we become adults, we lose the play and spontaneity of childhood. We become «calcified» – emotionally and mentally. What has been lost in adulthood can be recaptured through drama games. Theater therapy helps us … Continue reading

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Theatre as Therapy

I attended the Stimuli workshop because I heard so much about theater as an “art of self-knowledge” and could not relate to that because, from my Russian experience, theater was something else. I may not have answered my question “what … Continue reading

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‘Stimuli’ Theatre Workshop

“Inspired by the work of Jerzy Grotowski, this workshop is also rooted in eastern/Indian forms of movement, meditation techniques and on the Navarasaas. ABOUT THE TEACHERS: ARKA MUKHOPADHYAY – He is an investigator of paratheatrical modes of existence and theatre … Continue reading

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Art Movies

Art movies are not understood by ordinary men. They often speak an alien to the common man language and they need an expert to interpret them. They may be artistically beautiful and sophisticated, but most often they depict human misery, … Continue reading

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