Disturbia is an Actor’s workshop, playground, cradle and a battlefield. Through 5 days of intensive playing, studying, improvising and cracking, the workshop will explore the inexplicable mind, body and voice of the performer. The workshop will traverse through magic realism, musicality, space, tone, time, vulnerability, movement, silence and conditioning to find specific triggers where stories await their calling. Acting is tough, rigorous, tormenting. Yet some of the best performers make it look so easy and effortless.
The workshop is aimed at artists, perfomers, actors and anyone experimenting with the body and voice who wish to explore more and dig a little further towards a performative existence.
Come be part of the process to find out why it’s important to go through the necessary and the fundamental!
Dreams, voices, imagination, pain, suffering, longing, waiting, time. To transport oneself to a world of crayons and knives, of loincloth and tuxedos, of plants and mirages. To find expression through fire, air, water, earth and a thousand more differing spirals. To move, and imagine and express. Like a dandelion in free fall, a tree in silence, a speck of dust in the air, a drill boring into the earth. To create space through nothing and ponder where it all came from. To cry at emptiness and find breath through waiting. To laugh with abundance and dance with the wind. There are a plenty such combinations that can be found the simplest of lies one can perceive. Through romance. To move, move, move and move until you find clarity of movement. To create, break, reconstruct until that first brick has been laid. To submit to the unknown and question knowledge. To challenge limitations and expand boundaries. To look at the setting sun and scream the sun back to dawn. To fly. To make love. To find compassion. To travel. To breathe.
Please send in a write up about yourself and mention why you would like to do this workshop.
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|| ABOUT THE TRAINERS ||
VIJAY KRISHNA
An actor-performer. Having worked with actors, performers, musicians, directors from varying cultures and thoughts through the last 9years, his work tries to explore the body as a malleable source of expression, to tell stories, to paint pictures, to control time. His work is inspired by a wide array of forms like kalaripayattu, circus, panic theatre, koodiyattam, and much more. Using both academical and impulsive methodologies, his research starts with observing the body to eventually use it for a performer’s flight. To move, is to find clarity. Clarity of space, of an idea, of an abstraction, of smell, of impulses and to follow these impulses where ever they may lead us. There’s a pot full of gold behind the rainbow.
Stamatis Efstathiou, Arka Mukhopadhyay, Instabili Vaganti, Siddhanth Sundar are but a few creators he has had the pleasure of working with and stealing information from, stealing being the key-word. His work will look at movement being as aesthetic approach for expression. To find various different possibilities and methods to limber up the body to speak. Through the help of certain trigger mechanisms, finding and nurturing the possibililty of dialogues through one’s own flesh.
SIDDHANTH SUNDAR
Actor, director and musician is an independent artist living in Bangalore. His plays and films continuously explore urban loneliness, sexuality, space and time, abuse, human conditioning, and most of all the humor or tragedy hidden in all of it. He runs LIGHTS OFF, a small theatre company which aims at finding stories in the most complex questions. He has facilitated several theatre workshops across the country meeting hundreds of actors, working extensively on the musicality of actors, magic realism, gibberish and the fear of vulnerability.
He has performed at the Swedish Improv festival at Uppsala, where he learnt about making a scene out of nothing, the starting point to devising, he adds. His most fascinating collaboration though has been with his alma mater Indianostrum in Pondicherry where his journey towards understanding the difference between a character and an actor started. Rituals and ploys, playing and finding, waiting and wondering, holding on to the silence and letting go off the noise, his recent play Padagu, has affirmed in him that, the joy of being vulnerable on stage, well create everything, while the actor just has to be present.
