Dear Sadarsini Govind | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement
It is a hot summer morning. Priyadarsini Govind is at its performance location and black box theater, KG1 Studio in Roypetah, Chennai. She is sitting alone, dressed in her ideas with a notepad and a pencil in a pair of a t-shirt on the floor and a pair of a t-shirt.
For the past few weeks, this famous Bharatanatam artist is busy giving a Finishing Touch to the four-part certificate course on actress, which will be launched online in July. It is an expansion of the learning ladder, an acting education that he developed two years ago.
“Any art form is a work-progress,” says Priyadarsini. Learning ladder found its origin during the years of epidemic when he conducted a series of online immersive acting sessions for dance students from all over the world – Ashtanyak and Navras – Ashtanyak and Navras. “After every session, where I will teach Abhinya for a composition,” Priyadarsini says, “I will spend hours wondering how students need to experience the rigor of a structured learning (actress), which can allow them to reduce their way in a composition. I can come with a system that can help understand the abin.”
After several rounds of discussion with several days of thinking and discussion with senior students, the learning ladder began to take shape. This performance is made on the basis of teaching acts in the field of art -dancers, theater doctors and storytellers. The learning ladder envisages learning as a process of training the mind and understanding it how to communicate what one does in such a way that someone does in such a way that is effective and developed.
Priyadarsini Govind has prepared an actual education, photo credit: G. statue
“Abhinaya is all about the imagination,” says Priyadarsini. “But to find out the honesty of a feeling and express it to it to be meaningful training, practice, curiosity and inquiries. The peculiarity of the learning ladder is that it sees actya as a personal expression of emotions and as far as emotions are influenced as a collective consciousness.
Since its establishment in 2022, the learning ladder has emerged as a series of modules (as 24 videos), where Priyadarsini and her students develop and put in practice ideas and exercises. These are made on a learning framework that attracts it Nataya scripture And Abhinaya Darpana. However, the focus isOn imagination and training it needs to be translated into visual expression.
For the last two years, Priyadarsini is also traveling extensively to operate the learn workshops. “As far as Abhinya is concerned, what the audience gets, sometimes what is in the minds of the artists can be quite different. Actual is not just comfortable, a structured training can lead a long way to help communicate emotions better.”
Priyadarsini feels that the learning ladder can fill the gap. “Today’s world learning, not in general, is not deep, and often lacks a broader perspective. Now look at the speed of life,” the dancer says that she goes back in time, which is to remember her acting sessions. “I went to him as a nine -year -old child and my understanding of acting increased with every session. Kalanidhi Mummy A character would be deeply engrossed, which deepened and layered manifestations. We will spend days to open a poem. The experience was unprecedented. Learning ladder is attracted by this experience and my own discovery as an artist and teacher, ”says Priyadarsini.
Published – May 21, 2025 03:00 PM IST
