 Early Times Report
JAMMU, Dec 26: Natrang's much awaited Winter Theatre and Dance workshop for Children-2022 was inaugurated here today at Natrang Studio Theatre with the lighting of traditional lamp by Natrang President Padmashree Balwant Thakur, Sunny Mujoo and Gauri Thakur.
In his inaugural address, Balwant Thkaur said that this unique camp would provide an opportunity to children to enable them to explore their immense inner creative and artistic abilities. The timings of the camp will be 3 pm to 5 pm daily and the children will have the occasion to get trained under professionally trained directors including accomplished actors/directors like Neeraj Kant who is having an experience of over 30 years working with children, Sumeet Sharma- Ustad Yuva Bismillah Khan Awardee who is doing theatre with kids since last 16 years, Sunny Mujoo (Choreographer) and Gauri Thakur. The workshop is being coordinated by Mohd. Yaseen who is a National Scholarship and Fellowship holder in the field of Theatre.
Every year Natrang gives an opportunity to children to creatively utilise their winter break with learning beyond the textbooks. Similarly this year too, Natrang is having a ten day winter camp for children where they will work on personality development, confidence building, sharpening of communication skills, acting, play making process and much more with the help of highly innovative creative games and theatre exercises. Theatre is a sophisticated expression of basic human needs. For children it is an instinct to mimic and to tell stories through narratives and metaphors. This innate quality in children is enhanced and polished with the help of theatre. It is vital to understand that when phrases like 'learning is fun' and 'play and learn' are quoted, we can easily think of theatre as a means to learn in a child's life. With the growing competition every teacher and parent is following the rule of thumb, to break this monotony Natrang introduces theatre to the kids which brings freshness to the child's imagination and helps them to grow intellectually. Since every child is special, it is important that we encourage them to open up to the best of their ability by giving them confidence. Nothing can achieve that more than the confidence a child gets by performing on stage. During the winter camp, the children will learn and explore themselves through highly developed theatre exercises which are in vogue in Europe and USA.
Those who attended the inaugural session of Winter Theatre and Dance workshop included Riya Jandial, Vrinda Gujral, Shranaya Mahajan, Haleema Fatima, Zainab Kubra, Sharvil Mahajan, Kavya Jandial, Aadhya Thukral, Araiya Shan, Sheikh Hamid, Tanisha, Jeevansh Sharma, Samrat Sharma, Daivansh Singh, Advik Sharma, Kavya Charak, Divyam Charak, Aarav Vaid, Prial Gupta, Isha Agri, Akshay Sharma, Mehak Chib, Supria Gorka and Kavya Sharma.
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