Papers by Balakrishnan Raghavan
Forum Modern Theater, 2024
Authors: Anuja Ghosalkar (Bangalore), Nidhi Mariam Jacob (Bangalore), Tushar Madhav (Amsterdam), ... more Authors: Anuja Ghosalkar (Bangalore), Nidhi Mariam Jacob (Bangalore), Tushar Madhav (Amsterdam), Oishorjyo (Goa), Rency Philip (Bangalore), Balakrishnan Raghavan (Santa Cruz), Bhavana Rajendran (Bangalore).
This essay is a multi-authored text by the creator and the six performer-writers of The Lonely Hearts Club—an erotica performance made in India during the pandemic. The Lonely Hearts Club initially unfolded on Instagram, and subsequently on Zoom as a digital show. The text below documents the collaborative spirit with which the show was realised. Rather than a singular authorial voice, here multiple perspectives with varied registers share their experience, process, and trepidation of making an online erotica show. This erotica does not cater to the hetero-normative gaze, but lies in-between and on the periphery—queer stories, feminist narratives and intimate chronicles in regional Indian languages. The essay is framed as a series of reflections, along with excerpts from the original performance texts, to offer a flavour of the language, artistic choices, and impulses. This recounting offers an insight into a documentary theatre making process in India.
Finnish Journal of Music Education, 2020
Contribution of Trinity, Central University of Tamilnadu, Thiruvarur, 2020
Talks by Balakrishnan Raghavan
International Society for Music Education, 2019
Engaging with the idea of a gurukulam in the 21st century
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Papers by Balakrishnan Raghavan
This essay is a multi-authored text by the creator and the six performer-writers of The Lonely Hearts Club—an erotica performance made in India during the pandemic. The Lonely Hearts Club initially unfolded on Instagram, and subsequently on Zoom as a digital show. The text below documents the collaborative spirit with which the show was realised. Rather than a singular authorial voice, here multiple perspectives with varied registers share their experience, process, and trepidation of making an online erotica show. This erotica does not cater to the hetero-normative gaze, but lies in-between and on the periphery—queer stories, feminist narratives and intimate chronicles in regional Indian languages. The essay is framed as a series of reflections, along with excerpts from the original performance texts, to offer a flavour of the language, artistic choices, and impulses. This recounting offers an insight into a documentary theatre making process in India.
Talks by Balakrishnan Raghavan
This essay is a multi-authored text by the creator and the six performer-writers of The Lonely Hearts Club—an erotica performance made in India during the pandemic. The Lonely Hearts Club initially unfolded on Instagram, and subsequently on Zoom as a digital show. The text below documents the collaborative spirit with which the show was realised. Rather than a singular authorial voice, here multiple perspectives with varied registers share their experience, process, and trepidation of making an online erotica show. This erotica does not cater to the hetero-normative gaze, but lies in-between and on the periphery—queer stories, feminist narratives and intimate chronicles in regional Indian languages. The essay is framed as a series of reflections, along with excerpts from the original performance texts, to offer a flavour of the language, artistic choices, and impulses. This recounting offers an insight into a documentary theatre making process in India.