Practicing Disruption: Stories from Theatre | Sameera Iyengar | TEDxMDAE скачать в хорошем качестве

Practicing Disruption: Stories from Theatre | Sameera Iyengar | TEDxMDAE

Sameera Iyengar talks about her journey from being a Maths student at MIT to pursuing a full-time career in theatre and in that process details out the nuances of creations and disruptions that an artist undergoes. Sameera Iyengar is co-founder of Junoon, an organisation that aims to make theatre/arts an integral and powerful part of our everyday lives. She is also currently Course Director of SMART (Strategic Management in the Art of Theatre), a unique course designed specifically for theatre groups in India, and offered under the aegis of the India Theatre Forum (ITF). Sameera was also a founding member of the ITF in 2006, and remained a core member till 2014. Previous to Junoon, Sameera was Director Projects at Prithvi Theatre for close to a decade, and has also worked with the Seagull Theatre Quarterly. She has a PhD on theatre from the Department of South Asian Languages & Civilisations at the University of Chicago. She was bitten by the theatre bug however during her undergraduate years at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), from where she received a BSc in Mathematics and a Minor in Theatre. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx