To learn dialogues is pretty easy but to learn the expressions with body language and performing it on stage correctly is a big challenge.
And this is what the students learnt in this workshop, said theatre director and actor Balendra Singh.
The workshop began here from Monday. It is a month-long workshop.
Balendra was interacting with the participants of a theatre workshop being organised at by Maahi Socio and Cultural Thetare Troupe.
During the workshop, the participants are learning the other forms of stage arts like dance and music including the stage craft as well.
The workshop majorly focuses on acting techniques, body language, observational kills, voice modulation, diction and speech.
This will provide a unique knowledge practice based techniques, which is very important to acquire in this career.
All kind of genres like tragedy, comedy, drama and horror are being taught.
The students are being trained to improvise the sense of acting, gestures, expressions and emotions.
Singh further, said that students are being taught basic acting exercises to strengthen their acting foundation.
This training programme further aims to free students from self consciousness and strengthen their concentration through sensory exercises.
Notably, the youngsters are learning the fundamentals of acting and other aspects of theatre presentation.
How the drama is scripted, how the concept is selected, how it has to be presented and what major things have to be kept in mind while presenting a play is being taught to the youngsters.
While interacting with the participants, he said that there are few characters that could only be understood with body language and expressions. He also said that a character only seem to hold its essence when synchronized with expressions and body language.