I am an actor's mentor/ coach. I have been trained in various techniques of acting like method, classic, mime, pantomime, Parsi, contemporary, Stylized, Meisner. Each style comes with its own boundaries and limitations. But somehow once you embrace them, they work. This I am saying out of my personal experience and experiments with performing on stage and camera. I cannot truthfully commit to one technique or method. I have developed a teaching style which has a healthy mix of one or more. My teaching style has been known to vary with each student or group. Depends on the need of each student. There are other factors which also determine how the group flowers under my theatre training i.e.the kind of teaching they have been exposed to and how the productions they have participated in have been directed. Through theatre I work on the student’s speech, voice enunciation, talking rhythm, inflections of voice, body language, expressions, dialogue delivery, stage consciousness, stage presence. I would ideally also involve them in each aspect of putting up a production that is their inputs in scripts, sets, lighting and costumes would also be encouraged. This would really jog the creative process. Through theatre I also work on the group dynamics which would also make each student a team player. The act of putting up a production requires team effort, nimble mental shifts to handle scripts and dialogue, creativity and imagination. The overall personality of a child gets honed and chiseled.
My present full time position at Pathways world School as Drama Facilitator has further led me on in the Performing arts.