
Actor, performance-maker, educator
Sukhesh Arora is an actor, performance-maker and educator whose work sits in the space between performance, research and pedagogy. Questions of agency and transformation, home and belonging drive his work which weaves together live performance, sound and games. He trained as an actor-teacher in the TAG TIE Company, Delhi, led by the British director Barry John, which triggered the curiousity around the complex relationship between performance and pedagogy, two domains usually seen as distinct and separate from each other. In 2000, on a Charles Wallace fellowship, he enrolled in the Physical Theatre program at Royal Holloway, which introduced another element into this relationship. Sukhesh's work can be seen as process-oriented interrogations framed by three elements - performance, embodiment and pedagogy. Much of his work is collaborative and most of it emerges through workshops. He likes to design situations, be they workshops, performances, gatherings, or virtual spaces, which invite experimentation, improvisation, and collaboration, where uncertainty, hesitation, and failure are treated as valuable and generative, rather than as obstacles to be overcome.