Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, May 19: Summer Theatre Workshop for new acting aspirants began here today at Natrang Studio Theatre with the lighting of the traditional lamp by Natrang Director Balwant Thakur.
This fifteen day workshop will be conducted by Rahul Singh, a young actor and director of Natrang, who recently completed his training in direction from National School of Drama, New Delhi. This workshop is being supervised by Neeraj Kant and coordinated by Mohd Yaseen.
In his inaugural address Director Balwant Thakur said that Natrang responding to the growing demand of having regular Acting trainging and learning opportunities in Jammu, has taken the initiative to conduct proper professionally designed Acting workshops for new aspirants/entrants of theatre. Such workshops will now be the regular feature in Natrang with specific aim of channelizing the overflowing energy of youth towards positive activities specially related to artistic creativity and innovation.
Soon Natrang is going to start separate workshops for children for which the advance registration has already been started. In addition to this Natrang is also starting music classes in which the lovers of music will have the rarest opportunity to learn under great masters of music. All these new initiatives are being taken by Natrang is to provide a total professional training environment in Jammu aimed at giving a new life to the cultural movement of the city.
Describing utility of such workshops and training programmes, Balwant Thakur said that theatre equips a participant with lot of confidence and sharpens the communication skills in addition to the over-all personality development. This has been the experience that people related to theatre and arts excel in every sphere of life.
He further observed that most of the youngsters only do day dreaming and never venture to put their best in achieving excellence in life.
The participants of this workshop included Bhisham Gupta, Mohit Kaul, Ashish Dhar, Akshit Kaul, Brijesh Avtaar Sharma, Kaushal Manhas, Rohit Singh, Nikhil Dubey, Shaan Khan, Shubham Khajuria, Goutam Sharma, Sahil Kumar, Jyoti Kant Sharma, Gautam Kumar, Bhanu Pratap Singh, Sukhvinder Singh, Aman Kapoor, Tanvi Bhat, Tanu Sabarwal, Rahul Gupta, Aishwarya Sathe, Rajan Thakyal, Mahikshit Singh, Yash Manhas and Shivam Singh.
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