Forging intimacy between performers and audience

Chennai | Monday | 17th June, 2019

Summary:

The small audience gathered in the room followed each note with ease. This was the scene at the launch of the Sahrdaya Foundation’s Sahrdaya Creative Spaces, a black box theatre, at Besant Nagar on Friday. The inaugural performance saw vocalist TM Krishna, violinist RK Shriramkumar, Praveen Sparsh on the mridangam and N Guruprsad on the ghatam. Black box theatre is a square performance space with black walls and black floors that allows for performance interaction. With this space, Sahrdaya Foundation, a non-profit dedicated to the arts, hopes for a more intimate relationship between the performer and audience..