Shaurya is a team of professional from the arenas of education, mass communication and performing arts. The emergence of Shaurya in 1998 was a culmination of efforts
of teachers, artists, composers, designers, choreographers and social workers. Their works and experiments were strongly driven by an appreciation of art and its practice. These artists view the same as a means towards creating a unique
bridge between a range of diverse realms, which are not normally or visibly in communication with each other. So far Shaurya has attempted to explore new frontiers in the development and promotion of cultural exchanges and international understanding.
Shaurya has envisioned to extend its expertise for enhanced cross cultural exchanges to focus on all aspects of creative art, emphasizing local customs and traditions, ancient wisdom and heritage and including forest wealth in order to evolve a new cultural
and ecologically sustainable yet progressive model. Shaurya offers training workshops for teachers to hone their artistic skills and techniques in order to make their classroom teaching more effective and enjoyable.
Special emphasis is layed on education through theatre in order to make emotive and reflecting aspects of learning an integral part of the education system. It stives to instill self confidence and determination, thereby developing a positive attitude in the
children and more so amongst special children with orthopaedic and learning disabilities.
Hence organizing THEATRE IN EDUCATION (TIE) workshops for children throughout their academic session is Shauryas regular feature.
OBJECTIVES
To instill love, peace and harmony through different forms of performing arts.
To encourage, assist and extend the regional arts and crafts by establishing cultural exchanges, studios, libraries, lectures, demonstrations, correspondence, conferences and honours.
To generate interest in the classical art forms among children and youth by providing them the necessary exposure over a period of time.
To develop a sense of integration, scientific temper and cultural understanding by preparing audio-visual material on our literature, music, traditional crafts, environment, health, sports and social integration.
SUPPORTING ORGANTIONS
National School of Drama
India Habitat Centre
Embassy of Israel
Ladies Study Group ( Calcutta)
Celluloid Chapter
Theatre artists of Jamshedpur
Apeejay Education Society
Sangeet Natak Academy
Sahitya Kala Parishad
Urdu Academy
Adi Natya Drishti
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR
NAVRATAN GAUTAM
An educationist by profession, Navratan Gautam has been working as a creative director in Apeejay Education Society. He has been actively involvedin theatre since his school and college days and had won many accolades.
Armed with a diploma in acting from Sri Ram Centre, Masters Degree in Journalism , Mass comm., Commerce and an M Phil in Theatre in Education and currently pursuing research in the same field .
He has been associated with the National School of Drama for the last eight years. His thetare workshops in schools outline Voice Modulation, Improvisation, diction, speech, enacting etc.
Being the founder Creative director of Shaurya, he has been acting and directing plas of different flavours written by eminent Indian and Hebrew writers collaborating with habitat world, embassy of Israel and National school of Drama etc.
He has also worked with many established directors such as Vageesh Kr. Singh, RS Shelke, Sanjay Upadhyaya, Lokesh Trivedi, Robin Das, Barry John etc.
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