

Full Details of the IDP 2011 are here.
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Great News!
February 4th, 2011We told you to watch this space, and we’re happy to announce that our February workshop is now going to be conducted by Ashwath Bhatt (London Academy of Music & Dramatic Arts, National School of Drama). Ashwath will be doing a workshop on Using Alexander Technique Towards Performance. The Alexander technique is an important addition to man’s resources of self awareness and personal education. It is an education/guidance system to “improve posture and movement, and to use muscles efficiently.” It is of vital importance to any actor/ performer.
The primary aim of the workshop is to improve the spatial awareness and define relaxation as ‘relax-action’. Also, to create the unity between physical and vocal work of an actor through devised exercises.
The workshop is on from 19th – 24th Feb, 8am – 2pm at P L Deshpande, Prabhadevi. For more details, click here.
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Weekly Updates from TPPL: Week of Jan 23-29th
February 2nd, 2011Its been a hectic week – Macarena taught her advanced workshop on movment and floorwork for actors at PL in the mornings, while Rajneesh Bisht got actors to open up, connect their voice, body and imagination confidently and to deliver some very good monologue work every evening.
we’ve just started working on the annual day production at Aditya Birla World Academy, our push for getting more schools interested in Drama continues, Jehan is directing to Kill a Mocking Bird at Shishuvan.
Unfortunately Marie’s workshop has had to be postponed as Marie has been called back to france on a personal emergency. We’re leaving it up on the site as it is only officially postponed – she will be back, and she will be doing this key workshop in voice, body and text when she returns. Watch this space.
In the meanwhile, we are looking to find a suitable alternative for the February Advanced Workshop, we’re hoping Carla may rejoin us to do Clown – especially after last Novembers hit workshop of hers.
A few enquiries about the Intensive Drama Program have started to trickle in. The dates for that are looking like Mid May through to the end of the first week of June at the NCPA. Its shaping up, and this years performance oriented work will be much stronger.
We’re also happy to welcome Naireet Basak onto our team – he’s going to take over as Administrator and overall go-to person for everything starting today.
More next week.
Jehan.
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Video Journal: IDP 2010 Day 13. Natasha
June 1st, 2010Things begin on a different note on Day 13 for Natasha. She is beginning to wonder what is bubbling and brewing in her instructors’ heads, for their final performances this weekend.
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Video Journal: IDP 2010 Day 13. Trupti
June 1st, 2010“TOOOOOPHHHAAAAANNNN!!!!!!!!!” is Trupti’s word for day 13!!!!!!
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Video Journal: IDP 2010 Day 13. Sidhartha
June 1st, 2010Siddhartha isn’t sure he understands the connections being made today…but can feel things happen inside him. He knows that what is happening, is something BIG!
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Video Journal: IDP 2010 Day 12. Sidhartha
June 1st, 2010After the morning to evening intensive training for two weeks, Siddhartha feels the expectations of himself as an actor start to grow…
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Video Journal: IDP 2010 Day 12. Trupti
June 1st, 2010Trupti feels like this is when the actor in her has begun to grow. She wished Tomba Sir, farewell today and that just wasn’t easy to do…..
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Video Journal: IDP 2010 Day 12. Dhruv
June 1st, 2010Dhruv thinks that if the 1st Week was about twisting and breaking the participants, Week 2 was about filling yourself up again.
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