Reports of the 1st South Asian Fringe festival held at Mcleodganj, Dharmasala, India in May 2017.
Category: new culture
A tribute to Badal Sircar and his anti - nuclear activism & a call for revisiting peopleś history in the post colonial.
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Recently, Embassy of Belgium with Wallonie-Bruxelles International (WBI), Goethe institute Max Mueller Bhavan, Italian Embassy Cultural Centre, Camões-Portuguese Embassy Cultural Centre & Embassy of Switzerland in India, in association with Satyajit Ray Film & Television Institute, & Culture Monks presented the 1st edition of the ' Festivals from Europe" in Kolkata, from September 30, 2016 … Continue reading cinema festivals play a key role concurrently with distribution networks : an interview with andre ceuterick, executive director of festival international du film d’amour de mons
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Performance Art – Live Media Performance Art of Francesca Fini written by Sudipta Dawn. Feb 19, 2017 Live media performance art is an art form which has evolving in its current form since the 70’s. Francesca Fini is a live media performance artist from Italy and she was in India in January – February 2017, for … Continue reading sudipta’s blog
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Anna Helena McLean is a physical theatre practitioner and teacher, singer, cellist, theatre director and the founder of Moonfool ( theatre company). She has devised her training philosophy, which she calls 'Actor Chorus Text'. and She is based in London, UK & collaborates with Culture Monks, to run training programs and joint - productions in … Continue reading Dialogue with Anna Helena McLean
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Theatre Adda - Park Street Sessions, celebrates Badal Sircar's 91st birthday through a performance by Parnab Mukherjee and Janardan Ghosh, both eminent theatre practitioners and performers, who have worked closely with Badal Sircar. Related Content Culture Monks, Best of Kolkata Campus in collaboration with Drishya presents REMEMBERING THE THIRD ANGULARITY in a performance tribute to … Continue reading A tribute to Badal Sircar including excerpts of Badal Sircar’s letter to Richard Schechner, dated November 23, 1981
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an interview with Nicola Pianzola - founder & performer of the theatre group called Instabili Vaganti (from Italy). The interview is about their project called Megalopolis which is about the body & identity in new urban spaces.
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Critical Analysis of Janardan Ghosh’s Theatrical adaptation of Girish Karnad’s Hayavadana by Dr. Payal Trivedi
Janardan Ghosh’s Theatrical adaptation of Girish Karnad’s Hayavadana: A Transcendental Experience –
Dr. Payal Trivedi
Theatre director Janardan Ghosh (Kolkata) stands apart from his contemporaries on account of his philosophical approach to theatre which is unlike the commercial outlook of the urban Indian drama largely oriented towards making monetary profit. Ghosh’s statement, “Theatre I pine for (is)… A Transcendental leap into the unknown with the calmness of a Sannyasin”…(Ghosh interviewed 2010) is certainly a unique perspective which recalls for us the sacred tradition of art in India devoid of materialistic concerns espoused by the ancient Indian treatise the Natyasastra(200BCE – 200 CE). This is best reflected in his presentation of the renowned Indian playwright Girish Karnad’s play Hayavadana (Padatak Theatre Kolkata 2010) The production can undoubtedly be called ‘old’ considering the fact that it is almost been five years since its inception. Nevertheless, Ghosh’s illumination of the spiritual…
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Dr. Payal Trivedi in dialogue with Janardan Ghosh, on his experience of directing Hayavadana. Payal: Firstly please tel us something about the choice of doing Hayavadana for the contemporary audience. Janardan: Well…. it was Sri Shyamanand Jalan’s (the founder of Padatik) advice to do a Girish Karnad play. Girish was then in Kolkata attending a Badal Sircar Festival. … Continue reading Dialogue with Janardan Ghosh
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Theatre is transcendental. Just like experiencing ‘Brahman’. Primordial Theatre was used to communicate with the Gods. It seems that the notions of God and performance were born together. What was the pressing need for these creations? One common answer could be to search for an abstraction named ‘Truth’. While ritualistic theatre has thinned a lot, … Continue reading Theatre is transcendental. Just like experiencing ‘Brahman’ – Janardan Ghosh
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