Exploring the Source and Mystery of Performance Energy

HowlRound Theatre Commons: In 2016, Shebana Coelho went to India (where she is originally from) to take a Navarasa Sadhana workshop with famed Sanskrit theatre practitioner G. Venu at Natanakairali Arts Center in Kerala. Navarasa Sadhana, as noted in the ancient Sanskrit text the Natya Shastra, is the systematic and daily practice of the Nine Rasas (emotions) by actors with the aim of strengthening their capacities for producing a dramatic aesthetical experience in viewers.