Workshops
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The core of the Source’s
Research project lies in the practical work.
Every year in the months of December and January a work-session takes place
at the Theatre House in India.
The proposal implies the journey
to India (Santiniketan, West Bengal), in an area, which is not on the
tourist map itineraries.
At the beginning of February the activity continues with Yoga classes (Kumbhak Hata Yoga) guided by the master Viswajeet Ghiri.
The workshop is directed by Abani Biswas; we
invite the participants to experience a well-structured process of work
based on silence, music, dramatic actions, techniques of attention and
observation, breathing and voice.
The residential workshop conducted at Theatre
House is different from a multitude of various workshops that
Westerners can attend in India in the fact that it does not offer exclusively
the possibility of learning the traditional techniques.
It rather gives the opportunity to attend traditional and ritualistic
modalities of expression, however, in an accurate manner.
People who participate in the laboratory are Westerns or Indians from
the cities, and many are the guests that follow traditional spiritual
and artistic practices and disciplines.
Participants participate in practical work sessions with Abani and with
the following traditional masters and artists: Bauls
musicians form Bengal, Chhau dancers
from Jarkhand, Gotipua dancers from Orissa, and masters of Martial art Kalaripayattu
from Kerala.
During the workshop many guests arrive in alternation to conduct
demonstrations:
other Bauls and Fakirs,
the Patua storytellers and scroll
painters,
the Gotipua dancers from Orissa,
traditional actors and music players.
In the middle of January (on 11th/ 12th/ 13th), Theatre
House hosts for three days a large number (more than 100) of wondering monks of
different currents of Hinduism. A large number of Bauls, Fakirs and local people from the neighbouring tribal villages also join in it along with the participants from abroad. The evenings are reverberated with the fires of the rituals, demonstrations and performances by the team of Milòn Mèla with the participants. A group of Patua story tellers and painters and an Indian master of Shadow Theatre also gave regular demonstrations.
For the coming-up dates see
Calendar.
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In the action that concludes the day's work a Baul chants an ancient Vedic text: I have to ride
my boat inside this river |
Every year from the 5th until
the 15th of August a residential workshop is being held at the Casa Laboratorio
di Cenci (Amelia, Umbria).
The Source’s Research team and the Milón Méla traditional
artists conduct the work.
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In order to participate
in the workshops no previous experience is required.
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