Profile
Training
2020-2021 The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, MA Movement: Directing and Teaching
Kalaripayattu (South Indian Martial Art)
Mayurbhanj Chhau (East Indian Folk-Dance form)
Duende School of Physical Ensemble Theatre
Kathak (Indian Classical Dance form)
Movement Experience whilst on the MA Movement: Directing and Teaching
Movement teaching BA (Hons) Acting 1st Yr with mentor Vanessa Ewan
Movement director BA (Hons) CPP: Drama, Applied Theatre and Education and BA (Hons) CPP: Writing for Performance Show with director Gareth White
Movement facilitator R&D ‘Find me, fool’ with director Sarah April Lamb
Assistant movement teacher New Earth Academy with Sachi Kimura (graduate of the MA Movement: Directing and Teaching)
Awards
Chevening Scholar British High Commission 2020-21
Biography
Priiya is a genderqueer theatre maker and performer from India. Their practice is based in protest theatre and community theatre focusing on using performing arts to elicit narratives of subversion through class, gender and identity. Their interest lies in finding agency of the body placed within cultural, social and environmental landscapes. Their current enquiry into movement practices is deeply influenced by metaphors of embodiment through awareness of anatomy and inner rhythms of the moving body.
Skills
Audio and visual production, carpentry, light design, mask making, percussion and puppetry.
Languages
English, Hindi, Urdu, Bengali, Punjabi, Ladakhi (Purki dialect) and Persian (learning)
