Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, June 27: With an aim to connect the younger generations with our rich past, a workshop organised by Natrang focusing on the Rasa Theory of Natya Shastra was held here today.
The director of this workshop, Padamshree Balwant Thakur, elaborated the greatest contributions of India to world wisdom and amongst them the most noteworthy is the Bharat Muni’s ‘Natya Shastra’.
‘Natya Shastra’ is the most authentic and authoritative ancient Indian text on performing arts. In Natya Shastra, the Rasa Theory is the most globally appreciated element of theatre practice.
In the workshop, the emphasis remained more on understanding the nine emotions.
In a very innovative manner, the participants were provided with the opportunity to create situations and dramatic sequences to portray different emotions. Surprisingly young actors mesmerised everyone with their thought provoking acts based on nine different ‘Rasas’ (emotions) as mentioned in Natya Shastra.
Strength of an actor lies in his or her hold over the expression of varied human emotions.
The participants of the workshops were delighted to have been exposed to the basics of acting practice and authentic Indian schools of thought about theatre and acting.
Speaking on the occasion, Balwant Thakur said that this is the high time that we start exposing younger generations with great pride about our great discoveries and instead of looking at the West, we explore our priceless wealth of traditional wisdom.
The young artists who participated in this workshop included Aradhana Sudan, Rashmi Bhagat, Akriti Jamwal, Ayuskiya Rajput, Harman Deep Kour, Paratishtha Sharma, Vishaka Devi, Ayushi Sharma , Mahi Verma, Palak Thappa, Prerna Sharma, Simran Bhagat, Meenu Sharma, Nandini Sharma, Geeta Thakur, Mehak Rana, Richa Dutta, Aanchal Sharma, Lakshita Devi, Pratibha Verma, Anshika Mangoch, Anshika Choudhary, Parul Mangotra, Lavish Mahajan, Aaparna Singh, Kibriya Gohar, Isha Gupta, Aditi Verma and Divyanshi Sharma.
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