BANGKOK & SOUTH INDIA ARTIST INTENSIVE

THEATER MITU
in collaboration with PATRAVADI THEATER - Bangkok, Thailand
and VISTHAR CENTER FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE AND PEACE - Bangalore, India

invite you to the

BANGKOK & SOUTH INDIA ARTIST INTENSIVE

July 7 - August 6, 2010
(Thailand July 7 - 22, India July 22 - August 6)

What is your Mythology?
How does it encounter the reality of the world?
How do you reconcile these two by way of your art?

These are the questions that will propel and shape this month-long intensive. Theater Mitu will bring together a group of international participants, American teaching artists and Thai and Indian masters to rigorously explore this vast discussion.

In the West, the artist's personal mythology is often overlooked in an attempt to focus on technique, achievement and success. But the question remains, what propels the artist? What is his/her belief system? What stories have formed who they are and what work they create? We believe the answers to these questions can only be discovered when the artist is asked to forget everything they think they know and in so doing, explore themselves outside of a context that is familiar; artistically, philosophically, aesthetically and geographically. It is this belief that began the conversation with Bangkok's Patravadi Theater and South India's Visthar Center for Social Justice and Peace, both institutions committed to this type of international dialogue.

The program will ask participants to place themselves at the center of this conversation. The intensive will rigorously engage the participants in this dialogue at every level possible.

Physically: by way of classes and training with Thai and Indian masters in diverse classical Indian arts as well as advanced classes in Theater Mitu's training methodology of Whole Theater.

Philosophically: by way of challenging dialogues with some of the most important Buddhist and Hindu thinkers and philosophers in Thailand and India.

Socially: as students are asked to engage with and participate actively with the incredibly dynamic Thai and Indian communities of teachers, artists and activists that comprise Patravadi and Visthar as well as allowing themselves to be challenged by their fellow participants.

Culturally: as they interface with Thailand and India, two of the most diverse and impressive cultural landscapes in the world.

Artistically: by way of various performance, creation and explorative opportunities the program offers.

The list could go on and on as the journey, though dynamically programmed, will ultimately take form around the participants as they explore who they are as individuals, as citizens of the world and as artists driven by a personal mythology that is powerful, clear and unignorable.

Visit http://theatermitu.org/bsiaiindex.html for more information