Tamasha Education

Through working with predominantly Asian actors, Tamasha has developed a practice which ‘plays’ with cultures and languages through improvisation.

We have shared this practice in environments outside the rehearsal room, particularly in secondary schools and in HE institutions where we have been struck by the many positive learning outcomes of this approach.

Tamasha's model empowers drama teachers to work with all students by giving each language and cultural context in the classroom the same currency. It's a model that builds confidence, promotes dialogue and cultural understanding, and produces mature, multi-lingual devised performances.

Tamasha's work in the education sector has focused on the following projects:
 

> TIME (1999-2001)

Developed by Kristine Landon-Smith and Sita Brahmachari, the TIME project worked with six secondary schools in London and Birmingham, training teachers to use students’ cultural contexts to create new work. The project culminated in a national conference at the Central School of Speech and Drama. More >
 

> Lyrical MC (2008)

Using students’ verbatim texts and improvisations created during the TIME workshops, Sita and Kristine teamed up with young participants from London arts education charity Rewrite to create a new production Lyrical MC. The show toured to four theatre venues across London.  More >
 

> Voices from a Classroom (2010)

A Creative Partnerships enquiry project between Tamasha and north London secondary School, which saw Kristine work with fifty Year 10 students and their teachers over six-weeks. More >
 

> Higher Education Masterclasses

Kristine regularly leads masterclasses in Tamasha's intracultural practice at higher education institutions in the UK and internationally, including Conservatoire for Dance & Drama, Central School of Speech & Drama, Northern School of Contemporay Dance, L'Ecole Philippe Gaulier (Paris) and the National Institute for Dramatic Art (Sydney). More > 

To enquire about Tamasha leading a project in your school, call 020 7633 2270 or e-mail info@tamasha.org.uk.