Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, June 7: Natrang Children Theatre Camp-2012 started here at Amar Singh Club, today. The camps was inaugurated by Natrang Director Balwant Thakur.
This is one of the major annual theatre event of Natrang which has started it 22 years back and has been doing it regularly, said Balwant Thakur The workshop would be conducted by Sumeet Sharma who has Masters Degree in Dramatics and has a good amount of experience in Children Theatre and effective use of theatre as a means of personality development he is also country’s highest award holder for the youth in the field of performing arts.
The first week’s training would be imparted by Shilpa Gupta who is also a Natrang’s product and has been doing professional theatre with children since last 15 years with Shri Ram Centre and Amity International School New Delhi. A major children’s play will be mounted during this 40 days workshop besides the other activities which will hone the talents of children.
Giving details about this ambitious theatre happening in the town Balwant Thakur said that top experts and professionals in the field will impart training on personality development, public speaking, memory development, confidence gain, infusing creativity through the latest developed techniques of Oxford Summer School (UK). The faculty will include trained experts of National School of Drama and Indian Theatre Department, Chandigarh.
He said theatre is one of the most effective medium of human development and Natrang in the last 30 years has developed such training methodology for children which has shown amazing results. Drama is one of the arts through the practice of which children may grow and mature as superior human beings.
Balwant Thakur further said that “we should attempt to train children, as far as we can, to see as to look, to hear as well as to listen, to observe with knowledge and imagination; to perceive, to relate, to associate.” Others who spoke on the occasion included Sumeet Sharma who has successfully conducted past eight children theatre camps of Natrang and has established a name for himself as an expert of children’s theatre and theatre for personality development; he would be assisted by Mohit Sharma who is pursuing Masters of Theatre Arts from University of Mumbai.
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