Arts

  • Madhubani Art Workshop at MGIS

      Madhubani Art Workshop Students from Grade 5 to 12 from Mahatma Gandhi International School learnt traditional Madhubani art techniques and motifs from an award winning artisan from Mithila and a descendant of the one of the original Madhubani artisan families in Bihar. Students also learnt how to make natural vegetable dyes during the week long workshop. …

  • Shakespeare production: “Words to Action”

    Shakespeare was brought to life on an October evening by the current DP2 theater class. But the production was a little different from other productions; it was a jigsaw puzzle of eight different scenes from different Shakespeare plays.  The notion first started as a class activity, where students were asked to read out various passages …

  • DP2 performs Commedia Dell’ Arte!

    On the afternoon of the 22nd of December, Wednesday, the theatre class of DP2 performed a 20 minute play on Commedia Dell’ Arte. This was the culmination of a month long workshop, in which the students learned the nuances of Commedia, and began to apply them to small skits, which they later executed in the …

  • MGIS theatre students gear up for Commedia Dell’Arte

    Diploma students are gearing up for their final production, in which they tackle Commedia Dell’Arte. This theatre style has been the origin of many others, and apart from being a part of theatre students’ theoretical component, it is also preparing them for a key theatre style. Improvisation. Taking the basic plot, inspired from a traditional …