A performance composed and directed by Eugenio Barba. Premiered at the National Theatre of Budapest, 20 May 2023 Anastasis depicts Life’s different phases and realities from birth to
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Books
Thinking with the Feet/Pensare con i Piedi
Actor´s techniques and theatre anthropology/Tecniche di attore e antropologia teatrale.
The Performers’ Village. Times, techniques and Theories at ISTA
An introduction to ISTA. In this volume, the villagers seek to present the times as much as the theories of ISTA.
The Paper Canoe. A Guide to Theatre Anthropology
In this book Eugenio Barba analyses his thirty years of experience with the actors of Odin Teatret. He relates it to the research he has conducted in different environments and theatrical traditions of Europe, America and Asia, and he presents the results achieved by ISTA, which he founded in 1979,
The Five Continents of Theatre. Facts and Legends about the Material Culture of the Actor (in English)
The Five Continents of Theatre undertakes the exploration of the material culture of the actor, which involves the actors’ pragmatic relations and technical functionality, their behaviour, the norms and conventions that interact with those of the audience and the society in which actors and spectators equally take part.
A Dictionary of Theatre Anthropology. The Secret Art of the Performer
New revised and changed edition of the previous book “Anatomie de l’acteur”. The results of research into theatre anthropology at ISTA 1980 – 95.
News
Remembering Nicola Savarese (1945-2024)
Nicola Savarese has left us. Agile actor, director of a theatre group for years, original theatre historian, inventor of theatre anthropology, generous friend. He was alongside
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Séminaire d’Anthropologie Historique des Arts Nomades avec Julia Varley
The women in the Odin Teatret. Julia Varley (actrice, pédagogue, metteuse en scène, Odin Teatret, Magdalena Project, Holstebro, Danemark).
The Segal Theatre Center presents “Theatre as Politics by Other Means”. Conversation with Eugenio Barba and Julia Varley
Join us for a talk with Barba and Varley about their current projects. The 2022 Living Archive Floating Islands project, conceived by Eugenio Barba, which will be installed
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Live-streaming of the 17th ISTA session directed by Eugenio Barba
PRE-EXPRESSIVITY – COMPOSITION – MONTAGE The ISTA session will take place in Pécsvárad and Budapest (Hungary), 7-21 May 2023 The live-streaming will record all the work with Eugenio Barba
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ISTA. The principles that dance
Text written by Gregorio Amicuzi, tranlasted from Spanish to English by Pedro Rothstein. 12-22 October 2021 We are in Favignana, a small island of the Aegadian
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Contemporary Acting Techniques in Eurasian Theatre, Performance and Audiovisual Arts: Intercultural and Intermedia Perspective
For more information, inquiries and admission, please visit the following webpage (link). Contemporary Acting Techniques in Eurasian Theatre, Performance and Audiovisual Arts: Intercultural and Intermedia Perspective
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Meetings on Third Theatre and Theatre Anthropology. A Tribute to Eugenio Barba: 85 years of life, 60 years of theatre, 34 years of encounters in Brazil
Free online event, broadcast on Youtube on the channel Terceiro Teatro 2021 More information on Instagram @Terceiro_Teatro2021 and on Facebook Terceiro Teatro 2021 Coordination: Ricardo Gomes
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ISTA I. Bonn, Germany, 1 – 31 October 1980. “Theatre Anthropology”
Organisers: Hans Jürgen Nagel, Kulturamt der Stadt Bonn, Germany Under the auspicies of the ITI, International Theatre Institute
Financed by: German Commission of UNESCO, Kulturamt der Stadt Bonn, Sekretariat für Gemeinsame Kulturarbeit Wuppertal, The Ministries of Foreign Affairs of Germany, Italy and France and The Japan Foundation
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ISTA II. Volterra, Italy.
5 August – 7 October 1981. “Pre-expressivity / Improvisation”
Organisers: Hans Jürgen Nagel, Kulturamt der Stadt Bonn, Germany Under the auspicies of the ITI, International Theatre Institute
Financed by: German Commission of UNESCO, Kulturamt der Stadt Bonn, Sekretariat für Gemeinsame Kulturarbeit Wuppertal, The Ministries of Foreign Affairs of Germany, Italy and France and The Japan Foundation
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ISTA III. Blois-Malakoff, France, 12 – 26 April 1985. “Dialogue between Cultures”
Organisers: Patrick Pezin, Bouffonneries Contrastes
Financed by: Etablissement Public Régional de la Région Centre, Direction Régionale des Affaires Culturelles de la Région Centre, Direction du Développement Culturel, Action Française d’Action Artistique (AFAA), Ministère de la Culture – Direction des Théâtres, Office National de la Diffusion Artistique (ONDA), Maison d’édition Bouffonneries-Contrastes.
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ISTA IV. Holstebro 17 – 22/09/1986. “The Female Role as Represented on the Stage in Various Cultures”
Financed by: Municipality of Holstebro; Danish Ministry of Culture; Japan Foundation, Tokyo; Bureau of International Educational Relations, Taipei; Indian Council for Cultural Relations, New Delhi; Odin Teatret.
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ISTA V. Salento, Italy, 1-14/09/1987. “The Actor’s Tradition and the Spectator’s Identity”
Organisers: Giorgio Di Lecce, Cristina Ria, Mediterranea Teatro-laboratorio and Nicola Savarese, University of Lecce. Under the Auspices of Ministero del Turismo e Spettacolo and Ministero Affari Esteri, Italy.
Financed by: Regione Puglia, Provincia di Lecce, Consorzio per il Teatro Pubblico Pugliese, Camera di Commercio di Lecce, Comune di Lecce, Comune di Copertino.
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ISTA VI. Bologna, Italy. 28/06 -18/07 1990. “Performance Techniques and Historiography”
Organisers: Pietro Valenti, Centro Teatrale San Geminiano, Modena and Renzo Filippetti, Teatro Ridotto, Bologna, in collaboration with the University of Bologna and the Assessorato alla Cultura
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ISTA VII. Brecon and Cardiff, United Kingdom, 4 -11 April 1992. “Working on Performances East and West / Sub-Score”
Organisers: Richard Gough and Judie Christie, Centre for Performance Research, Cardiff, Wales.
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ISTA IX. Umeå, Sweden, 9-21/05/1995. “Form and Information”
Organisers: Sven Shalström, Umeå Teaterförening and Chris Torch, Intercult, Shikasta/Riksteatern
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ISTA X. Copenhagen, Denmark, 3-12/05/1996. “The Performer’s Bios”
Organiser: Odin Teatret in collaboration with KIT, Copenhagen International Theatre Festival
Financed by: Copenhagen ’96, Cultural Capital of Europe
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ISTA XIV. Krzyzowa & Wroclaw, Poland, 1st -15th April 2005. Improvisation. Memory, Repetition, Discontinuity
Organisers: The Centre for Study of Jerzy Grotowski’s Work and for Cultural and Theatrical Research
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ISTA XV, in Albino, Italy, 7-17 April 2016. “The Actor’s Know-How. Personal Paths, Techniques and Visions”
Organised by Odin Teatret, in collaboration with the Cultural Association Diaforà and Teatro Tascabile di Bergamo WithParvathy Baul (India)I Wayan Bawa (Bali)Keiin Yoshimura and So Sugiura
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ISTA XVI. Favignana, Italy, 12-22 October 2021. “The presence of the actor and the perception of the spectator”
ISTA/NG International School of Theatre Anthropology – New Generation
directed by Eugenio Barba
Organised by Fondazione Barba Varley, in collaboration with Linee Libere and Teatro Proskenion (Italy), Nordisk Teaterlaboratorium-Odin Teatret (Denmark), The Grotowski Institute (Poland)
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The new journal is an open-access platform for research on Theatre Anthropology. It focuses on two main fields of investigation: the rediscovery of the fundamental aspects and the main theoretical issues in this field; the enhancing of new research into the pivotal study of the “performer’s pre-expressive scenic behaviour”, according to Eugenio Barba’s definition.
Open access