Dec 04 2024 to Dec 04 2024 11 a.m.

Price: 500 onwards Book/Buy

Where

Courtyard Koota

Ground floor, Good Earth Tarana Good Earth Malhar, near Rajarajeswari medical college Kambipura, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560074

Event Description

Abhyas Somatics practice, devised by Navtej Johar, is found on the reciprocal relationship between the word and the body. The two hour workshop will have a twin focus, to foster ease in a) the body to make it become more readily available to suggestion; and b) in imagination, to make it more unselfconscious, less censored and burdened by the anxiety of making 'meaning'. Balakrishnan Raghavan will offer vocal accompaniment during this workshop.    

About the Facilitator  

Navtej Singh Johar is a Sangeet Natak Akademi Award-winning Bharatnatyam dancer and choreographer. He is also a queer activist who, along with five others, famously filed a writ petition in the Supreme Court of India challenging Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code. Johar teaches at Ashoka University, Sonipat. He trained in Bharatanatyam at Kalakshetra, a dance school run by Rukmini Arundale in Chennai, and with Leela Samson at the Shriram Bharatiya Kala Kendra in New Delhi. He subsequently studied at the Department of Performance Studies, New York University, and won several fellowships for his research over the years. Johar has collaborated with composers Stephen Rush, Shubha Mudgal and installation artist Sheba Chhachhi among others. He has also acted in Earth by Deepa Mehta and Khamosh Pani by Sabiha Sumar.