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Rasa Boxes Theater

What is Rasaboxes?

Pt.1

The Purpose of the Boxes

What is Rasaboxes?

Pt.2

The Start

  • Rasaboxes are an expression of emotion and feelings
  • The big box represents your space and all you have to do is let everthing go.
  • Rasaboxes integrates ancient theory with contemporary emotion research about the "Brain in the Belly" studies in facial expression of emotion, neuroscience, and performance theory including Antonin Artaud's provocative assertion that the actor is "an athlete of the emotions"
  • In practice , Rasaboxes produces performances that are visceral and useful acroos a wide range of contexts: from subtle film acting to bold commedia dell'arte, from naturalistic theatre to pure dance, music and movement.
  • In Sanskrit the word "rasa" translate to "juice, taste ,flavor,essence."
  • Rasa is a process rather than a thing.
  • yet the eight rasa can be identified and played with.
  • Rasaboxes was Devised in the 1980s and 90s by Richard Schechner
  • Rasaboxes was made to offer performers to access, express and manage their feelings and emotion with the context of performance.

Activity Time!!!!!!!!!!

Video Time

Movement with rasaboxes

http://www.vdb.org/titles/richard-schechner-interview-0

“Performers are very shrewd... The closer you get to them, the more you realize that as soon as you have a spectator situation, artifice is involved. Because, if you’re skilled at it, you become aware that there’s a manipulative struggle going on between the eye looking, and the creative self trying to control the eye that’s trying to contain you.”

  • Rasaboxes exercises range from very simple and personal expression of each rasa individually by means of drawing, breathing, gesturing, acting, and vocalizing to complex combinations of rasas perfromed by several people simultaneously.
  • Rasaboxes exercises are psychophysical, engaging the wholde mind and body

Rasaboxes is a Process

  • Rasaboxes is a process, an open system — not a closed, if incredibly rich, universe such as ballet or kathakali. In its more advanced phases, rasabox performers mix, layer, and score the eight rasas in ways that create complex expressions, dramatic characters, and psychophysical emotional relations
  • Using rasaboxes, artists can explore plays, compose scenes, create choreographies or music, and even invent entire performances.
  • In the world beyond the arts, rasaboxes can be used to “loosen up” the emotions, help participants discover how they are feeling what they are feeling, communicate with others and with previously hidden or blocked aspects of themselves.

What are the Eight Rasa?

  • Adbhuta- meaning Surpised, wonder
  • Sringara- meaning Love, eros
  • Bhayanaka- meaning fear, shame
  • Bibhatsa- meaning disgust, revolt
  • Vira- meaning courage, the heroic
  • Hasya- meaning Laughter, the comic
  • Karuna- meaning sadness, compassion
  • Raudra- meaning rage
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