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CREATED:20211120T121112
SUMMARY:"From Text to Stage - Strategies of Adaptation" - A talk by Padmashri Neelam Mansingh Chowdhry
LOCATION:Aryabhatta 24
DESCRIPTION:\n\nInterested in theatre since her childhood, Dr Neelam Man Singh Chowdhry
  began looking for a vocabulary for training urban actors and found it in t
 he traditional forms that still survived in the Panjab. Tradition for her h
 as always been a living, dynamic reality capable of providing insights into
  the present. Her work, in its own way, has tried to seek a theatrical spac
 e that could bridge the gap between the rural and the urban, using traditio
 n as a living and vital impulse capable of being transcribed onto a modern 
 idiom.\n\nTrained in the History of Art and in Theatre, she runs her own th
 eatre company by the name ‘The Company’. She also teaches at the Department
  of Indian Theatre of the Panjab University. For over 25 years she has been
  working with a group of traditional actors from rural Punjab, called the N
 aqqals.\n\nShe has been the recipient of several awards including the Sange
 et Natak Akademi award (2003), The Shiromani Bhasha Vibhag Award in 2004 an
 d most recently the Padmashree in 2011.\n
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<br/><br/>Interested in theatre since her childhood, Dr Neelam Man Singh Ch
 owdhry began looking for a vocabulary for training urban actors and found i
 t in the traditional forms that still survived in the Panjab. Tradition for
  her has always been a living, dynamic reality capable of providing insight
 s into the present. Her work, in its own way, has tried to seek a theatrica
 l space that could bridge the gap between the rural and the urban, using tr
 adition as a living and vital impulse capable of being transcribed onto a m
 odern idiom.<br/><br/>Trained in the History of Art and in Theatre, she run
 s her own theatre company by the name ‘The Company’. She also teaches at th
 e Department of Indian Theatre of the Panjab University. For over 25 years 
 she has been working with a group of traditional actors from rural Punjab, 
 called the Naqqals.<br/><br/>She has been the recipient of several awards i
 ncluding the Sangeet Natak Akademi award (2003), The Shiromani Bhasha Vibha
 g Award in 2004 and most recently the Padmashree in 2011.<br/>
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Kolkata:20160227T060000
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