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Mar 26, 2015 · Chawla saw theatre as her path to achieve this. Trying to perfect her work was therefore akin to refining the soul. That is why she used her final hours to suggest changes to The Tenth Head, the last work she had directed. Having done that, she went in peace.
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Apr 4, 2019 · The institute was originally conceived in 1981, in Mumbai, by Veenapani who wished to actualise a space that allowed a free and pathological growth for performers. But Adishakti was not meant...
Apr 3, 2022 · Mud paths lead to buildings, made of earth and lateritic rock, where artistes live and work. It is in this isolated space that Veenapani Chawla, a pioneering theatre director, created a form of theatre whose sole purpose was not to entertain or inform but to understand the psychic or the “space for luminous creativity” in every person.
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The centre of Chawla’s work, holding together all its hybrid elements, was Sri Aurobindo’s philosophy which posited that the human soul evolved through engaging with life, not by rejecting it.
An exhaustive study presenting a multidimensional view of Veenapani Chawla’s journey in the realm of theatre. Religion has tradition, music has tradition, even revolution has tradition. As opposed to the monotony of modernity, tradition is richly diverse and resilient.
Veenapani Chawla is arguably the only practitioner of theatre in India who has fully articulated a theory of the theatre she practices. Exploring her Mumbai plays, the springboard of her later works, this book opens a window to her experiments with modern Indian theatre.
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This week we take a trip down south to a 40-year old theatre community, Adishakti, created by one of the pioneers in contemporary and experimental theatre in India, the late Veenapani Chawla. Veenapani conceptualised Adishakti as a research and theatre laboratory, and ran it for nearly 33 years before her passing in 2014.
