From performers to spectactivists: Jana Sanskriti’s training for agency in and beyond theatre

Yarrow, Ralph (2017) From performers to spectactivists: Jana Sanskriti’s training for agency in and beyond theatre. Indian Theatre Journal, 1 (1). pp. 29-37. ISSN 2059-0660

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Abstract

Sanjoy Ganguly and his company, Jana Sanskiti (Badu, West Bengal), operate a mode of training that works with individuals, groups and communities to develop cognitive, motoric and affective agency. This enables them to become fully involved participants in the collective refashioning of their political and social situation. Their work involves the acknowledgement and activation of bodies and their performative, relational and agential capacities. It draws on Boal's use of theatre games and exercises and extends this by the addition of aspects of Indian folk practice, and the precise operation of a sequential strategy across time that embodies successive phases of recognition and analysis by means of different modalities of interactive work: the acquisition of skills and techniques, ways of drawing on performance knowledges, institution of co-creativity and collaborative scripting, and the extension of these capacities to community activism. This article will trace these dimensions of Jana Sanskriti's work and relate them to understandings of forms of embodied knowing.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	boal,west bengal,agency,audience,embodiment,training
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing
Depositing User:	Pure Connector
Date Deposited:	19 Jul 2017 05:05
Last Modified:	30 Sep 2021 08:58
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/64144
DOI:	10.1386/itj.1.1.29_1

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