When Emotion Takes a Body
When Emotion Takes a Body Performance Poetry has taken the region by a storm and youngsters are leading the charge with socially relevant contentÂ
by Sukant Deepak
Mar 22, 2019
4 minutes
Humanly Connected
Amy Singh, 27, Chandigarh
She talks about love and revolution not just in auditoriums but also parks, underground parking lots and in Delhi's chaotic metro stations. For Chandigarh-based performance poet Amy Singh, who regularly holds sessions not just in Punjab but also in Delhi, Hyderabad and Bangalore, performing verse is akin to becoming a poem."You are metamorphosed to a unique fluid form. And the raw, instant and intense human connection with the audience is so intense that the whole experience gets a new dimension," she says.
A Master's degree holder in mass communication (2014) from Panjab University, Chandigarh, Singh has been into performance poetry since 2016.
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