City teenagers celebrate life thru dance and paintings

Sixteen teen agers here participated in a workshop to express their feelings through dance and paintings in a British Council initiative.

The workshop 'Teenage Times Remix Kolkata' was organised by ThinkArts (India) and Curious Seed of Scotland and supported by British Council India and British Council Scotland.

The workshop was conducted by a Scottish choreographer Christine Devaney and two dancers from the Gaelic country on Friday.

Devaney told PTI "we asked the participants to draw self-portrait among other things. We also asked them to express how they feel about themselves and their lives."
She said the 'Teenage Times Remix Kolkata' was initiated at the Edinburgh Music Festival in the past when ThinkArts representatives "saw some of our works."
Ruchira Das from ThinkArts said, "After Devaney had conducted a five-day workshop in October 2017 here in smaller form with teenagers, dancers, visual artistes, we applied for fund from British Council and the Teenage Times Remix Kolkata 2018 came off."