On the art of practice and the practice of art
Supriyo Samajdar
Born in 1969 in India. Theatre director and practitioner. Studied directing at the Rabindra Bharati University in Kolkata. Worked with many acclaimed theatre artists: directors Probir Guha, Raul Iaiza, Abani Biswas, actress Rena Mirecka, dancers Ranjabati Sarkar, Tripura Kashyap and others. Founded Bibhaban, an experimental theatre company in 1996 and has been directing, writing plays and leading it since. Since 2002 Samajdar is running his research project on mukta natya (open theatre), exploring the communication between a spectator and a performer. Through this research work (inspired by the works of Antonin Artaud and Jerzy Grotowski) on open theatre, he is currently working on a project called "approach to silence." He participated in Regula contra Regulam, a research project of Teatro La Madrugada, in Brzezinka (Poland) in 2008. His research paper "In search of a new form - open theatre" was selected for the international symposium “Language(s) of Theatre" organized by Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and the Indian Society for Theatre Research (ISTR), at the Jawaharal Nehru University in Delhi (January 2009), and at the symposium "Grotowski - Alongside - Around - Ahead" at the University of Kent in Canterbury, England) (June 2009).
Posts by Supriyo Samajdar:
Bibhaban’s Journey
The obvious questions that come to our mind in this context are like this: What is the journey? Where is the journey headed? Whose journey is it? Why is it a journey? We all are very conditioned and comfortable with getting answers – but not questions. Questions unsettle us, make us uncomfortable, and sometimes force us to rethink and question ... [ READ MORE ]
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