Jana Sanskriti

"On stage we are actors, off stage we are activists." Jana Sanskriti are a Forum Theater movement founded in the villages outside Kolkata in the Indian state of West Bengal. They mix Indian theater/music/dance with the techniques of Augusto Boal's Theater of the Oppressed to empower others to dialogue about and affect positivie change in their lives, their communities, and the world around them. The "Coordination Team" (seen here) always begin their performance with a song, followed by a stick dance, connecting Bengali folk arts with political action. Awesome.

Category:

Music

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• Jana
• Sanskriti
• West
• Bengal
• India
• Theater
• of
• the
• Oppressed
• song
• dance
• music
• table
• Boal
• Ganguly