There is music in air and pride in our hearts,
as we approach the republic day, a day when we gained our identity
and when we presented ourselves with our constitution. Its
time to look back and muse on how much we acheived and how
much is still left.
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Laura van Dijk, Student MSW University of Brussels
Having made a side-door entry into the world of India’s biggest obsession, ‘Bollywood Bandwagon’ stands on the edge of a film set watching the goings-on – WITHOUT any colored glasses! But being a true-blue voyeur, gradually the play makes its way into the more intimate spaces of the industry - some secret, some forgotten, some taken for granted. And the further inside it goes, the farther away it gets from the shiny veneer; Until the magical becomes mundane and the people inside look the same as the ones outside.
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I am writing this just after coming to India ten days
ago. I am still
such a novice and such an infant in many ways—in
Hindi, in navigating the city, even in operating my
simple prepaid cell phone. And yet still
even after such a brief period of time and in the midst
of rapid
transition, I can say with certainty that that the time I will spend here will
be markedly different than my past journeys outside of the States, and I have
a deep feeling that this time will both profoun and enriching.
10 days in Austria. Two Puppet Theatre Festivals.
Laura van Dijk, Student MSW University of
Brussels
The theatre we were performing in was
located in Hafenhalle, the port area of Linz city. It had
been built in only 2 weeks exclusively for the ’09
Festival. Right next to the Danube. By ‘exclusively’,
I mean literally no one other than the festival invitees
will ever perform in that beautiful space again. Come 2010,
the entire building with its 2 theatres, perfectly designed
to make possible all kinds of mad experiments; state-of-the-art
technical rooms; an office; store rooms; workshop rooms;
lounging area; rooms to construct your sets in; rooms to
stitch your costumes in; green rooms that you want to build
your home in; a bar and café while you wait for
the show to start – will all be turned into cold
storage! Fresh fish caught from the Danube will be frozen
there till wholesale!
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