ILOGY Storytelling & Performance Workshop | Story, Body, Memory, Rasa

About this event

A 3-Day Intensive at Zorba the Buddha, New Delhi

What if a story is not merely told, but remembered by the body, carried by the voice, awakened by an object, and shared as experience?

This 3-day intensive workshop invites participants to explore storytelling as an embodied practice. The workshop uses body movement, voice, gesture, memory, objects, rasa, silence, and space to help participants discover their own stories and shape them into short performance pieces.

The workshop is designed for performers, storytellers, theatre practitioners, educators, writers, students, facilitators, and anyone interested in the relationship between body, memory, and narrative presence.

What Participants Will Explore

Participants will work with:

Memory as pure experience: discovering personal story-seeds through memories, images, places, sounds, and emotions.
Body Movement & Gesture – using walking, stillness, posture, gaze, breath, and simple movement to carry meaning.
Object Work – treating objects as witnesses, companions, memory-holders, and performance partners.
Voice & Sound – exploring whisper, rhythm, repetition, spoken word, silence, and breath.
Rasa-Based Story Design – understanding how emotion becomes shared experience for the audience.
Site & Space Awareness – responding creatively to the atmosphere and architecture of Zorba, New Delhi.

3-Day Flow

Day 1: Remembering the Body
Participants begin with memory maps, body-awareness exercises, object interviews, and first story fragments.

Day 2: Shaping the Story
The fragments are deepened through rasa, gesture, voice, minimal body movement, sound, and structured feedback.

Day 3: Weaving & Sharing
Participants refine their pieces, rehearse in relation to space, and present short micro-performances in an intimate final sharing.

Participants Will Take Away

By the end of the workshop, each participant will have created a short story-performance using body, voice, gesture, memory, and object. They will also gain practical tools for performance-making, teaching, writing, facilitation, and self-expression.

It is a space to discover how the body thinks, how memory speaks, and how a story becomes alive in presence.

Final Outcome: Short individual or group micro-performances with a closing reflection circle.