As a music director, Arupjyoti Baruah has been involved with the Bhramyoman Theatre (a mobile/roving theatre attached to the heritage of Assam’s performative space and culture) since 2012. He has worked in collaboration with theatres like Kohinoor, Abahan, Hengool, Bhayadevi, Bordoisila, Surya Theatre, and Rajtilak Theatre. He has also been a music director for the direction of renowned names like Munin Baruah, Hemanta Dutta, Abhijeet Bhattacharya, Shankalpajit Hazarika, Rajdeep, Himanshu Prasad Das, Pranab Baruah, and others.
His journey with folk theatre involves the Amateur Theatre, and the well-known theatre village Badungduppa Kalakendra, Goalpara. Under the tutelage of Sukracharjya Rabha, eminent theatre personality, and founder of the ecological/green theatre and “Under the Sal Tree” festival, Baruah studied body semiotics, performativity and community building via music direction. He is the music director of Rabha’s play To’ Poidam. Following an intensive workshop in Badungduppa, Evelien Pullens, a theatre director and puppeteer, of the Netherlands Theatre Embassy, collaborated with Rabha to craft a production titled Bijuli, where Arupjyoti Baruah directed the music and played 53 folk instruments alone.
