Date:26th August 2022
Venue: Multi-purpose Hall, St. Teresa’s Institute of Education
Name of the Co-ordinator: Dr.Joan Lopes
Total Number of students and faculty: 50

Objectives:

1.To incorporate the use of drama and art in education leads to holistic learning, accelerates personality development and to impart students with crucial life skills, problem-solving skills, leadership, cooperation and collaboration

2. It helps pupils to recognise the layers of meaning that exist in texts and contexts, to develop their knowledge of dramatic conventions and their sense of audience.

The Drama and Art in Education session began at 1100 am that was organized by Dr.Joan Lopes held on 26th August 2022, in the Multi-purpose Hall. Dr. Meenakshi Iyer Gangopadhyay was the resource person who conducted this wonderful session for us along with her two students Ms. Simran Chettiar and Ms. Anuskha Ramnathan. Dr Meenakshi led us through this entire session. She first began by explaining why drama and art is important in education. Ms. Simran and Ms. Anushka performed a folk dance for us followed by the different dance forms existing in India. Dr.Meenakshi then explained us how speed and pause is an important factor to keep in mind while performing. She then described the different concepts of Abhinaya, Aangikaabhinaya, Vaachikaabhinaya, Aahaaryaabhinaya, Saativikaabhinaya and the Nava Rasas. Ms. Anushka illustrated the twenty eight single handed gestures and Ms. Simran illustrated the twenty three double handed gestures. They both then, demonstrated different action talk gestures.

Dr. Meenakshi helped us to analyse how we could include different activities to make our class interesting. Dr. Meenakshi demonstrated the Nava Rasas so beautifully that we all were mesmerized by her performance. A very interesting quote “Take the opportunities that are there to incorporate the art no matter what subject you teach” grabbed our attention. All the students were very happy that they got to learn something new. We were glad to have Dr. Meenakshi along with her 2 students Ms. Simran and Ms Anushka who put in a lot of efforts to make us understand new concepts which we would be imbibing in our teaching.