What’s in a Dream? The Stage as a Space for Possibilities
This joint project proposes to explore the stage as an ephemeral yet poignant space with potential whereby this potentiality is heightened by the staging of dreams as well as equivalent states of consciousness. One of the key areas of exploration would be the social dimension of dreams and how theatre, arts and media negotiate their presence while carefully traversing the fine line between dreams and reality. Through a joint exploration which would entail reading, analyzing performances, critical study of scripts/plays as well as performance notes and discussing media and theatrical techniques, the dialogue will enable a greater understanding of the diverse aesthetics employed by various representative artists and facilitate a micro-level study of the subject matter. Especially the intercultural perspective of the project will aim for a programmatic de-essentializing and historicizing of dreams, reading them as a specific form to create a sphere of potentiality that is not instrumental and subjected to an explicit will but allows for inner development and dynamics. The case studies specific to the cultural and regional environment of the proposing fellows will enable an engagement with the study of various cultural markers, use of symbolism, experimentation in theatrical presentations, and many more inter cultural paradigms to be focused upon.
Indu Jain
Vita
Dr Indu Jain is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at JDMC, University of Delhi in India. She is the convener of the Feminist Research Working Group —International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR) and has been an active contributor to the same from many years now. Her research area is Contemporary Indian Feminist Theatre and Pedagogy. She has published in international journals on the subject matter and is particularly also interested in exploring the lacunae in the existing theatre historiography . Her research and writing focuses on devising new methodolgies to critically disuss and highlight interventions by ground breaking theatre practitioners.
Forschungsschwerpunkt
Feminist Theatre
Post Colonial Literature
Indian Contemprary Theatre and Pedagogy
Publikationen (Auswahl)
1) Article in the Theatre Research International titled, “ Feminist Processes and Performance: Interventions in Anamika Haksar’s Antar Yatra”, Vol 42, Issue 3-October 2017. Pg 333-341
2) Article in the Theatre Research International titled, “Feminist Exploration of Material Objects in Anuradha Kapur’s Jeevit Ya Mrit”, Vol 45, Issue 3-October 2020.
3)“Representing the migrant body and performing displacement: Contemporary Indian feminist interventionist ecology.” Dramaturgy of Migration: Staging Mutilingual Encounters in Contemporary Theatre. Eds. By Yana Meerzon and Katharina Pewny. Rouledge. (2019)
4) “Body as a site for feminist theatrical discourse: A Pedagogic and Performative Experiment with Arousing Images by Anuradha Kapur”, Book Chapter for Bloomsbury Methuen Drama. Eds.Yana Meerzon and Julia Listengarten. (2022)
5)Chapter in the book, Indra Dhanush: Rashtrapati Bhavan Series, Volume –II. “ Looking Back at the Cold War: Bridge of Spies.”. Published by Additional Director General, publications Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Delhi.
6)Chapter in the book, Indra Dhanush: Rashtrapati Bhavan Series, Volume –II. “ A Mystery that continues to Raise Questions: Talvar”. Published by Additional Director General, publications Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Delhi.
