A training for actors, directors, dancers & anyone in performing arts

About the workshop

Bringing together two contemporary performance practices that SITI Company has evolved through decades of path-breaking work and teaching around the world, this workshop creates a meeting point in the body–mind between the Suzuki Method and Viewpoints. The Suzuki Method offers a rigorous, vertical performance discipline, while Viewpoints cultivates intuition through a shared exploration of time and space.

Each day, participants will train rigorously in Suzuki and Viewpoints, followed by Composition—a practice of creating & layering moments in a performance through articulation of body, text and timespace revealing meaning, presence, and honesty.

The central aim of this five-day intensive is to nurture intuition, expand presence and channelize energy to make the invisible, inner world, visible.

SUZUKI METHOD OF ACTOR TRAINING

The Suzuki Method is a rigorous physical and vocal discipline for performers, created by renowned theater artist Tadashi Suzuki and his company.

The method is designed to regain the perceptive abilities and powers of the body/voice instrument. Drawing on a unique combination of traditional and innovative forms, the training strives to restore the wholeness of the body as a tool of theatrical expression.

The training is also designed as an entry into the metaphysical invisible world of the artist. Focus, concentration, rich inner fiction and energy are measured and made visible.

It is a training in presence, deepening one’s relationship to the sensation of performance.

PRACTICE OF SIX VIEWPOINTS

The Viewpoints is a performance language that articulates specific elements of time and space. It emboldens practitioners to generate strong theatrical work spontaneously and intuitively.

The Six Viewpoints by Mary Overlie and Nine viewpoints as articulated by Anne Bogart and the SITI Company are powerful tools to build ensembles, expand possibilities in rehearsal, or generate new work.

Through rigorous training in improvisation and composition the Viewpoints extend possibilities in the quality and range of the performer and the ensemble. A post-modern practice, completely horizontal and free from structure, demanding artists to be fluid, open and flexible.

Providing such horizontality creates a safe & intuitive space for artists to discover one’s own aesthetic, one’s own structure and brings the capabilities like voice, imagination, story etc to create the performance.

WHAT DO YOU TAKE BACK

1. Incorporate a range of performance principles into their own artistic practice.
2. Restoring the wholeness of performer’s body-mind.
3. Highly sophisticated techniques to work with body, mind, energy, breath, voice, text, imagination and emotions.
4. Frameworks of time and space to be deeply engage with the present moment.
5. Improvisational and compositional tools for devising, re-imagining, responsiveness, adaptability, and structural clarity.
6. Flexibility to work across multiple forms, mediums, and artistic vocabularies.
7. Expanding physical, vocal & emotional presence.
8. Enable to handle range of dramatic situations.
9. Stillness, Breath, Energy, Action and Heightened text.
10. Cultivating sensitivity, playfulness, and expansiveness.

Facilitated by Akhshay Gandhi

Akhshay Gandhi is an Actor, Director & Storyteller. He is a SITI Company (NYC) ambassador, visiting faculty at Lalit Kala Kendra & Drama School Mumbai. He has been artist-in-residence at Gesseneralle, Zurich (with TENT School), Indian Dramaturgy Network (Bangalore) and fellow at BeFanastic Within (in Art & AI). He has received his formal theatre training at SITI Company (New York), Odin Theatre Laboratory (Denmark) and mentored by Ellen Lauren (SCOT & SITI) and Barney O’ Hanley (SITI).

His work has been performed at prestigious venues & festivals including, Stanford University (California), UCLA, Columbia University (NYC), Odin Teatret (Denmark), NCPA (Mumbai), Serendipity Arts Festival (Goa), KNMA (Delhi) to name a few.

Some key accomplishments include, a TEDx talk, IATC Conference Paper, Tata Scholar Grant, BITSAA 30u30 award and had been panelist on Serendipity folk art grant & Inlaks Studentship grant.

A note from facilitator

These sessions are a way to share, practice and evolve with practices my teachers have generously passed on to me. I consider them as a way to learn, imagine and be fully committed to the life we have chosen as artists. For these are moments of discovery, of journey and of collective experience. I invite you to these sessions, to share your life, your journey, your craft with each other.

29th Sep – 3rd Oct 2025 | 10-4PM
Studio Meraki, Andheri (W), Mumbai
Limited participants only. 9986994836
On a sliding scale of: 12-15K INR

Organized by:
Anita Gandhi Works
Conservatory of Arts & Artists