Open Call | SKAP Summer School | Landscape as Performance
The SSAF Kasauli Art Project (SKAP) is a programme of the Sher-Gil Sundaram Arts Foundation, located at the site of the Kasauli Art Centre established by Vivan Sundaram at his family home. From 1976 to 1991, Kasauli Art Centre regularly organized artists’ workshops, seminars, performances, film screenings and other arts-related events that were among the first of their kind in the country. In 2016, with the setting up of SSAF, Vivan proposed that the locale and setting be re-invented as SKAP, with renewed infrastructure and a cross-disciplinary programme that focuses on discursive and process-oriented workshops, discussions, and experiments in performance and theatre-making.
Facilitators
Anuradha Kapur is a theatre maker and teacher. She completed her term as Director National School of Drama, New Delhi in 2013. She has held Visiting Professorships at Ambedkar University, Delhi, the University of Warwick and at the University of Cape Town. For her work in the theatre, Anuradha Kapur was awarded the Sangeet Natak Akademi award for Direction in 2004.
Neelam Man Singh Chowdhry is a theatre maker. She is an alumni of National School of Drama and studied History of Arts for her master’s. She has been attached to The Rang Mandal, a theatre repertory in Bhopal, and later became a faculty member at The Department of Indian Theatre, Panjab University. She is the recipient of the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 2003, and the Padma Shri in 2011. She is presently Professor Emeritus at Panjab University.
Gargi Bharadwaj is a theatre and performance studies scholar. She is an alumni of National School of Drama with dual MA degrees from University of Amsterdam and University of Warwick and a PhD from the University of Hyderabad. She has published articles and essays on cultural policy and infrastructure, contemporary performance practice, gender and proto-feminist themes in cultural work and, dramaturgies of urban space among others. She is currently Associate Professor of Practice, O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat.
Amrithasruthi Radhakrishnan is an Assistant Professor at Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence, with a Ph.D. in Theatre and Performance Studies from the School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University. She is a trained dancer for over two decades with the Natya Vriksha Dance Collective. Her research attempts to bridge theory and practice in both academic and artistic domains. Her research focuses on performance, festival events, curatorial practice and cultural consumption, exploring alternate histories of performance reception.
Purav Goswami is a dramaturg and theatre maker and researcher from Assam, India. He is pursuing a PhD in Theatre from University of Cape Town, South Africa, as part of the Reimagining Tragedy from Africa and Global South project (ReTAGS) funded by the Andrew W. Mellon foundation (2019-2024). Currently, he resides and works from Delhi, India.
Eligibility
The workshop is open to Indian nationals currently residing in India.
Applicants must be at least 23 years of age at the time of application. There is no upper age limit.
Important Dates
Deadline for submitting applications: 7 May 2026 [Please note that the deadline will not be extended]
Workshop dates: 5–12 June 2026.
Participants are expected to arrive a day prior on 4 June and depart on 13 June 2026.
Shortlisted applicants may be invited for a brief conversation with the facilitators between 10–14 May 2026.
Costs
There are no participation fees.
Accommodation (shared basis) and food for the duration of the workshop in Kasauli will be covered by SSAF.
Participants will pay for the travel to and from Chandigarh/Kalka. In case you are unable to do so, please write to us at: ssaf.kasauliartproject@gmail.com
SSAF will arrange transport from Chandigarh/Kalka to SKAP.
The closest train stations are in Chandigarh (1.5 hours by road from Kasauli) and Kalka (45 minutes by road from Kasauli). There are several trains daily to Chandigarh and Kalka from Delhi. The closest airports are in Delhi and Chandigarh.
