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Self-With-Others/The Clay Cart: Residential Training Workshop, West-Bengal, India

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Following the success of ‘Macbeth in the Mountains’ (Uttrakhand) and ‘Self-With-Others’ (Tamil-Nadu) in 2013, DUENDE and The Arshinagar Project, in collaboration with Theatre House, announce a fourteen-day residential workshop.



For two weeks a small group of Indian and International performers will train together to develop ensemble, explore interdisciplinarity and create a short performance, based on the Sanskrit text Mrcchakatika (The Little Clay Cart), to be shown at Theatre House and in Kolkata.



This is an extraordinary chance to experience inter-disciplinary, inter-cultural training and ensemble performance-making, under the direction of DUENDE’s Artistic Director, John Britton.



 Details





23rd February: Meet in Kolkata and travel to venue.

24th February - 9th March: Workshop (performance 8th March)


10th March: Travel to Kolkata


11th March: Performance in Kolkata



Cost:



£810 (bookings before December 15th)

£895 (bookings after December 15th)

Deposit (non-refundable) £200

Price includes: travel to and from Kolkata, food and accommodation at Theatre House, the fourteen-day workshop, and accommodation in Kolkata (March 10th/11th)



Please note these prices are for international applicants.



Applicants resident in India, Pakistan, Bhutan, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh should contact The Arshinagar Project directly; (Arka Mukhopadhyay: [log in to unmask] ; Subject Line: 'Application for The Clay Cart')



There is a 10% discount for anyone who has worked with John Britton before.

Two 50% bursaries are available to international participants. Details on request.

Further information and applications (CV and brief statement of interest) to:[log in to unmask]



The Workshop




Each morning we will train together - psycho-physically, vocally, in movement, in improvisation and - most importantly - in developing ensemble. The training will be based on the approach to training individuals-in-ensemble that John Britton has been developing for over twenty years. Called ‘Self-With-Others’, it combines deep concentration and self-encounter with joyous improvisational training. More information can be found here: ensemblephysicaltheatre.wordpress.com



In the afternoons we will develop the training into performances - solo, duet, ensemble; performances that are improvised or directed/choreographed; performances that are site-specific or stage-based; performances that are narrative, abstract or something in between. We will do a lot of performing.



We will also explore the ancient Sanskrit drama Mrcchakatika (The Little Clay Cart). We will not be ‘staging’ the text, but using it as a launch pad for our own exploration of contemporary, physical ensemble. Mrcchakatika is a rich, sprawling work that is funny, violent, ridiculous, political, moral, ancient and contemporary. It will offer rich material for exploration!
The work will be physical, dynamic, challenging, joyous, experimental, rigorous, exhausting, exhilarating.



The Workshop Leader



John Britton is Artistic Director of DUENDE - an international collaboration of performers committed to ensemble practices. He is an extremely experienced teacher, director, performer and leader of residential training processes. In the last few years his innovative and original approach to training individuals in ensemble (‘Self-With-Others’) has seen him teach, perform and direct in Australia, Sweden, Greece, India, UK, France, Germany, Austria, Mexico, China and the USA. In 2013 Methuen/Bloomsbury published John Britton’s book ‘Encountering Ensemble’ - the first major overview of the history, philosophy and practices of training and running ensembles. More information: duende-ensemble.com/bio.php



The Venue



The Workshop will take place at Theatre House.



Theatre House was established at Santiniketan (West Bengal), in 1990 as a centre for practical research. It is a place, in natural surroundings, for study, training, performance and residencies.



Situated on the edge of the forest, the centre, with its four houses, provides accommodation for up to 40 people. The complex includes a kitchen with a large dining-room, and a central performance hall with a traditional clay floor.



The centre is provided with nearly 4 acres of land that include paddy fields, a vegetable garden and fruit orchard, all cultivated with organic methods.
The diet is based on Indian and Italian cuisine prepared with homegrown food and homemade dairy products.Theatre House serves as a place of meeting and creative activities for a large number of traditional artists, local tribal populations as well as wandering monks of different religious currents. Every year from November to middle January it houses an intensive residential workshop. Since 1990 a large number of theatre students and professionals, from different countries have joined in these work sessions.Theatre House is located in a rural zone and in addition to the performing hall, housing and other facilities it administers 2 hectares of land cultivated organically by several tribal families from the adjacent villages



The Arshinagar Project



The Arshinagar Project is envisioned as a collective of artistsand cultural practitioners from different traditional and contemporarydisciplines, as well as practitioners from other disciplines such asanthropology, education and ecology, for research into performanceas transformational action.

'Arshinagar' means 'the city of mirrors', and the name is derivedfrom a song by Lalon Phokir, one of the greatest masters among the Bauls of Bengal - wandering mystical musician-performers who through embodied practice attempt to touch the unbodied.The logo represents the 'ektara' (literally 'one-stringed') - a drone-like instrument used in different forms and names in different Asian cultures, which has come to symbolize the Bauls.

The Arshinagar Project aims to foster a spirit of freedom, respect forhuman diversity, ecological harmony and love, among young adults,youth in colleges and universities, educators and others, throughperformances, immersive workshops in urban and natural settingsbased on traditions of mystical performance and practice as well ascontemporary performance-craft, through lecture-demonstrations,seminars, and journeys through inner and outer spaces.



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