Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, June 10: Natrang’s Summer Theatre Camp- 2017 for children was inaugurated here today at Natrang Studio Theatre, with the lighting of traditional lamp by Natrang Director Padamshree Balwant Thakur.
This is the 27th Year of Natrang’s Children Theatre camp which was started in the year 1990 and since then, annual Summer Theatre Camps, Spring Theatre workshops, Winter Theatre Workshops have been a regular feature of Natrang’s activities. The products of Natrang workshops bring pride for the State all over. One can always watch Natrang’s Vrinda Gujral in ‘Sabse Bada Kalakaar’ on Sony TV every Saturday-Sunday which demonstrates a glimpse of the quality of Natrang’s training and grooming of the talent. The period of summer vacations is exclusively dedicated for Children Theatre every year by Natrang.
A new full-length play would also be prepared by the participants during the camp which would be presented before the larger number of audience at Abhinav Theatre Jammu, who get a chance to watch a wonderful children’s play every year as the outcome of the Summer Theatre Camp.
The training module has been designed by Balwant Thakur, who has taken the children theatre of Jammu to the entire length and breadth of the Country. The skill developing techniques, devised by Sumeet Sharma (Recipient of SNA’s National Award for Theatre Direction) during his consistent and meaningful work with children for over 11 years also prove very successful in imparting the benefits of theatre to the children. The children would get training under the supervision of Neeraj Kant, Aarushi Thakur (Trained in London), and visiting trainers of the allied arts. The workshop is being coordinated by Mohd Yaseen (National Scholarship Holder), Aishwarya Sathe and Brijesh Avtar Sharma.
The participants who attended the inaugural session included Agam Kaur, Asma Gul, Saba Jamwal, Sumedha Manhas, Vedhant Suri, Vaibhav Suri, Vatsal Khajuria, Sohi Sharma, Riya Jandial, Diya Sharma, Simran Thakur, Aamya Sharma, Suhani Gupta, Mannat Soni, Manan Soni, Devisha Gaur, Abhinandan Nangla, Daiwik Sharma, Kushaan Baliya, Zenia Nagpal, Rishat Alec, Abhiday Gupta, Kushal Sahil, Rudra Kohli, Shivesh Gupta, Nandini Singh, Saanvi Anand, Ritwik Khajuria, Samaniya Sharma, Karan Sahib Singh, Srishti Kapoor, Aviral Kapoor, Satyam Mehra, Sushant Charak, Pranvi Chandan, Namish Mahajan, Laith August Sharma, Saksham Mahajan, Aamya Chib, Ikshita Midtada, Aarya Sharma, Trived Mahajan, Ananya Chib, Ashwin Mahajan, Akshit Mahajan and Aryan Sharma.
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