Workshops

What's there in a song, Hayavadana?
The real beauty lies in the child's laughter -
in the innocent joy of that laughter. No tragedy can touch it.

Girish Karnad, Hayavadana,

In 1999, apart from giving guitar classes in Poorna, a small school in Bangalore, I began assisting Hartman de Souza, a senior theatre practitioner, in his theatre classes. Over time, I created and deepened my own work in the field and have so far worked with several institutions across the country, and with some of them, over several years.

Educational Institutions

Rewachand Bhojwani Academy. Pune-Maharashtra

Kodaikanal International School, Kodaikanal-Tamil Nadu

Hebron, Ooty-Tamil Nadu

Mount Carmel College

Jyoti Nivas College

Bangalore International School

Sishu Mandir

The Brigade School (Gateway)

Sameeksha

Brindavan Educational Society

Prakriya

Srishti School of Art Design and Technology

Poorna

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Assistant facilitator

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Visthar

Mudra Institute of Communications, Ahmedabad-Gujarat

Sense Kaleidoscopes

Indian Institute for Human Settlements

The International School Bangalore

Azim Premji University, Open Course

Pondicherry University

St. Joseph's Arts and Science College

Jyoti Nivas College

T. John College

Regional Institute of Education, Mysore-Karnataka

KLAY Schools

Department of State Educational and Research Training

Organisations and institutions

Shape Shift Collective, Mumbai

Ranga Shankara, Bangalore

Prakriti Foundation, Chennai

Nirdigantha, Srirangapatna

India Foundation for the Arts, Bangalore

Forum 3, Bangalore

Badugnduppa, Goalpara-Assam

Disom — The Leadership School

Kumaon Vani Community Radio Station

Shoonya Centre for Art and Somatic Practices, Bangalore

Maraa, Bangalore

Gully Tours

Koothu-p-pattarai, Chennai

Khela Ghar, Kolkata

Integral Coach Factory, Perambur

The Footlight Theatre, Ahmedabad

Theatre-based training

TARGET

CAPCO

Accenture

Fidus Law Chambers

Novell

Customised theatre workshops

Being Solo, focussed on solo performance making.

Playing with Shadows, shadow puppetry workshop for children.

REFLACT, self-reflexivity through theatre.

Casting and training non-actors in Madhya Pradesh for a film titled 'Beej'.

Arts based projects

UR/Unreserved, a travelling project that involved 14 people from different parts of India living, travelling, and examining their notions of identity

In addition to the above, I have also worked in the following capacities:

Technical director for ‘Stage Rite’ a festival supported by the Royal Court Theatre.
Technical director for the Attakkalari Biennial Dance Festival.
Worked as a Programme Executive at India Foundation for the Arts (IFA).
Served as a member in the advisory panel for the Visthar Ranga Shaale, Koppal.

Sketches by Parmita Mukherjee.