Invited Artists

Aruna Sairam Tamil Nadu, India
Brigitte Cirla  France
Bruna Gusberti  Switzerland
Cristina Castrillo  Argentina/Switzerland
Daniela Regnoli  Italy
Geddy Aniksdal  Norway
Helen Varley Jamieson  New Zealand
Jill Greenhalgh  Wales, U.K.
Julia Varley  Denmark/U.K.
Keiin Yoshimura  Japan

Margi Vijayakumar  Kerala, India
Macheri Parambil Padmavathy  Kerala, India
Nathalie Mentha  Switzerland/Italy
Parvathy Baul   Bengal, India
Pino Di Buduo   Italy
Ravi Gopalan Nair   Kerala, India
Roxana Pineda  Cuba
Rwita Dutta Chakraborty  Bengal, India

 
Eugenio Barba  Denmark/Italy





 Aruna Sairam Tamil Nadu, India

"Seeking the Divine in Music"
Duration: 2 Hours


About Aruna:
India’s legendary classical vocalist Padma Shri Aruna Sairam, is regarded as the Music Ambassador of India, for successfully taking Indian music to the global arena. Her voice, a beautiful blend of resonance and range, has an unusual timbre which gives it uniqueness.
Aruna Sairam has collaborated with internationally acclaimed artistes, including Dominique Vellard, the French master of Gregorian chant, NoureddineTahiri of Morocco,  ChristianBollmann of Germany, as well as with eminent Indian musicians, Shankar Mahadevan and U.Shrinivas among others. She has been the receipient of numerous awards like the Padma Shri and the Kalaimamani  etc.
Her appearances throughout the world include The Royal Albert Hall-London for the BBC Proms, Carnegie Hall-New York, Le Theatre de la Ville-Paris, The Festival of World Sacred Music-Morocco, and The Music Academy-Chennai. She has had the rare distinction of performing in venues such as the Indian President’s official residence – Rashtrapati Bhavan, at Shakthi Sthal and at Vir Bhoomi, the memorials of former Prime Ministers, Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi. She has also performed across the length and breadth of the country, bringing the richness of South Indian classical music to people from all walks of life.
Aruna Sairam was born in Mumbai to a family of musicians. Her first guru was her mother Mrs Rajalakshmi Sethuraman and later on she came under the tutelage of Sangita Kalanidhi Smt T Brindha.






 Brigitte Cirla  France
Voix Polyphoniques  ‘BLACK SEA SONGS’
Singers: Brigitte Cirla, Taniya Zolty, Marianne Suner
Performed in Georgian, English and French
Duration: 1 Hour
 
About Brigitte;
Brigitte Cirla, after an education in classical piano, started a career as a singer and actress. Brigitte’s passion for both a capella song and contemporary composition, led her to create Voix Polyphoniques in 1991 and the vocal group Les Dissonantes in 1996. With them she explored Bartok, Kodaly and Ligeti and created several performances of musical theatre still in repertory. As a teacher and choir director, Brigitte has led numerous workshops for amateurs and professionals in France and Europe.  Marianne Suner divides her time between contemporary music, opera singing and compositions for vocal ensembles. She studied Musicology at Paris VIII University. Tania Zolty    pursued studies in music, theatre and psychology. She studied classical music in Conservatory Paris France.

About ‘BLACK SEA SONGS’;
The concert is a tribute to Edisher Garakanidse, singer, ethno-musicologist and founder of the group Mtiebi from Georgia. He taught at the music conservatoire in Tbilisi where he was a colleague of Nato Zumbadze and post graduate tutor to Nana Kalandadze, who worked with Brigitte Cirla and Helen Chadwick on the first edition of this Black Sea concert. They all joined him on many field trips to meet singers and record songs in the different regions of Georgia. Edisher came regularly to England and France to run workshops and to perform. In 1998, Edisher died in a car accident. The meeting of artists from France, Georgia and England is in homage to his spirit. He used to say: “Singing is just an excuse for meeting ourselves”.



Bruna Gusberti  Switzerland
Mono Theater "Out or in?"
Created & Played by Bruna Gusberti
Technician: Cristina Castrillo
Minimal words in English
Duration: About 1 hour


 About Bruna;
Actress, assistant director, pedagogist.
Since 1990 , she works at the Teatro delle Radici and she has taken part in all the artistic group’s activities.

She is assistant to the director Cristina Castrillo in all Teatro delle Radici’s performances and all laboratories for the actor’s formation.


About "Out or In?"
This act is about a woman reflecting on whether or not  to stay in or out of her feelings, her dreams, her sorrows in the daily struggle to feel herself alive.
A kind of a picture in movement crossing the darkness and finding the light.


 



Cristina Castrillo  Argentina/Switzerland
Created and played by Cristina Castrillo
Teatro Del Radici
Objects : Ledwina Costantini
Technician: Bruna Gusberti
Performed in Spanish with the recorded translation in English
Duration : 1 hour 20 min

About Cristina;
Over four decades of dedication to professional theatre : from the foundation, in the seventies, of Libre Teatro Libre, one of the most famous Latin American companies in Argentina to the birth of the “Teatro delle Radici” in Switzerland in 1980.
The versatility of her work (as an actress, a teacher and a director) has led her to put into practice the fundamental aspects of her approach, both as regards her performance and that of other actors.
About "Umbral";
Dedicating all her efforts to the research of elements that are the basis of an actor’s training, she has contributed to the creation of collective and individual shows in which the actor is always at the very heart of the inventive process. The creation of her solo entitled “On the Heart of the Earth” is particularly noteworthy. The performance has been presented on many occasions and at several festivals in Europe and Latin America.

To expand her pedagogical activities, she has created, in cooperation with colleagues of the “Teatro delle Radici”, a “Theatre Lab School” for foreign actors. Her method has been presented at countless workshops that she has been invited to lead in different countries in Europe, central and Latin America, United States, Australia and New Zealand.




 Daniela Regnoli  Italy
"Uragani"(Hurricane)
Teatro Potlach
Director & Technical assistance: Pino Di Buduo
Piano:  Aldo Pietramala and Luca Bernar
Performed in Italian
Duration : 1 hour

About Daniela;
Daniela Regnoli was born in Rome. She studied ballet for 6 years at the Russian Sakharov School. After graduating from there, she joined the Faculty of Architecture and later the Faculty of Humanities-Oriental Art History. At the same time she began working in the theater as an actress. In 1972 she joined Jerzy Grotowski's Laboratory Theatre in Poland and in 1974 she participated in an international seminar for actors at the Odin Theatre in Denmark conducted by Eugenio Barba.

In 1976 she founded the Theatre in Fara Sabina with Pino Potlach Budva. Since then her career as an actress is identified with the artistic journey of Potlach, participating in all performances, projects, group productions, theatrical events, as well as participating in the organizational work of the Potlach festivals and events at the theater.


About "Uragani";
This is a musical journey in the Germany of the Thirties, through ballads and songs written by Bertold Brecht and set to music by Kurt Weil, which takes us into the past century’s Europe in the period between the two wars.
There are stories of women who recall their sixteenth year of age, when they were still children and ready to fall in love with the first wrongdoer they would meet, women without adolescence who grew up too quickly under the bombs of the Second World War.


 


Geddy Aniksdal  Norway
"My Life as a Man"
by and with Geddy Aniksdal, Austria
Performed in Norwegian Sogne-dialect and English
Duration: 50 min


About Geddy;
Geddy Aniksdal has been a member of Grenland Friteater since 1981. She has taken part in all major performances in the group. She works as actor, director, and pedagogue, as well as doing other chores necessary in a small theatre. She has been part of The Magdalena project since the beginning in 1986. Within this network for women in contemporary theatre she has toured her solo performances, The Stars are no nearer, Blue is the smoke of war and No Doctor for the dead worldwide.
She has also been on the editorial board of the journal  The Open Page since the beginning. Geddy Aniksdal is currently the artistic director of the multicultural city project Sense of Place.
Grenland Friteater is one of the longest standing free theatre groups in Norway. It was established in 1976, in Porsgrunn.


 

About "My Life as a Man";
An autobiographical excursion into the story of my Norwegian working class origins which then become my working class characters. My stories in theatre, the reasons why I make theatre, the meeting with others made possible through the work.
Also a story of finding a room of one`s own.

MY LIFE AS A MAN is dedicated to my families.





Helen Varley Jamieson  New Zealand
(with Paula Crutchlow) 
Devised and brokered by
Helen Varley Jamieson and Paula Crutchlow (UK)
Resitration required
Performed in English
Duration: 2 hours
(A minimum of two hours should be allowed from the time the audience arrive to when they leave, or longer if a post-performance discussion is desired.)

About Helen;
Helen is a theatre and digital media artist, and an internet professional. A diverse career has led to her current experimental work in the use of the internet as a venue for performance, specifically in bringing remote performers together in live theatrical events. She calls this new art form cyberformance. She is a founding member of the globally dispersed cyberformance troupe Avatar Body Collision. Helen created her first web page in 1994, and has worked professionally in the internet industry since 1997 doing web site construction and maintenance, web copywriting, consultation and project management. She also teaches workshops and gives lectures and presentations about her work, and writes all kinds of stuff. In 2008, Helen completed a Master of Arts (Research) on cyberformance, at Queensland University of Technology.
About Paula;
Paula Crutchlow lives with her family in Exeter, Devon. She graduated in dance from De Montfort University and has since been working in Britain and internationally as a performer, director and educator in devised theatre.

About "Make Shift";
Make-shift is a unique and intimate networked performance that speaks about the fragile connectivity of human and ecological relationships. The performance takes place simultaneously in two separate houses that are connected through a specially designed online interface. Paula and Helen (one in each house) stage their part of the work with the help of local audience members. This scripted and visually poetic performance is interspersed with webcam videography, avatar puppetry and audience interaction in the format of a performative salon. Everything that happens in the houses is streamed to online audiences who can also contribute text chat visible on the interface to everyone throughout the event.

Online: click here for more information and a live link at showtime.







Jill Greenhalgh  Wales, U.K.
"Threat of Silence"
Director:  Jill Greenhalgh Collaboration with:  Eddie Ladd Writer:  Margaret CameronVideo Artist:  Zoe ChristiansenDuration 30 min



About Jill;
Jill Greenhalgh has been a professional theatre maker for 33 years. She has travelled and worked extensively within Europe, Australasia and the Americas in her careers as a producer, director, performer, and teacher. In 1986 she founded the Magdalena Project - International Network of Women in Contemporary Theatre and has remained its artistic director ever since.  She is a Lecturer in Performance Studies at the Aberystwyth University. She has two teenage daughters and lives on the west coast of rural Wales.


About "Treat of Silence";
The Threat of Silence is an evocation of the languages of quietude and silence. We attempted to slow down and mould the essentials of theatre—space, image, text, action, and sound—to recover the resonances of silence and in this very pared back and only choreographic version of the performance, that we bring to India, we want to create a refuge from the bombardment of noise, information overload and escapist trivia that satiates contemporary [Western] living and to engage performance as a place of reflection. Silence and quietude reside in places of uncomfortable beauty and in a paradox of absence and remembrance.

This new collaboration combines video, text, action and sound to question the chaotic pace of today’s society: the ever increasing noise, information overload and the disappearance of the act of listening in daily life.



Julia Varley  Denmark/U.K.







"The Castle of Holstebro"
Director: Eugenio Barba
Musical Arrangements: Jan Ferslev
Lights: Fernando Jacon
Technician : Fausto Pro
Performed in English
Duration: 50 min



About Julia;
Julia Varley joined Odin Teatret in 1976. Apart from acting she is active in directing, teaching, organising and writing. With Odin Teatret, Julia Varley teaches in schools and universities and has synthesised her experience in four work demonstrations. Since 1990 she has been involved in the conception and organisation of ISTA (International School of Theatre Anthropology) and the University of Eurasian Theatre, both directed by Eugenio Barba. Since its beginning in 1986 she has been active in The Magdalena Project, a network of women in contemporary theatre. She is also artistic director of Transit International Festival, Holstebro, and editor of The Open Page, a journal devoted to women’s work in theatre. Julia Varley directs her regular long-term students.  Julia Varley has written two books: Wind in the West - a novel by a theatre character (Odin Teatret Forlag, Denmark) and Notes of an Odin Actress - Stones of Water. Her articles and essays have been published in journals in many countries.

About "The Castle of Holstebro";
The Castle of Holstebro is a phantom castle inhabited by figments of imagination. Inside its walls a dialogue between a young woman and her eternal companion is spun following the lines of a “stream of consciousness”. A woman dressed in white is born from her ironical admirer; she talks with him and then appears again as him. He is self-assured, cynical and full of life. She lives in a world of chimera in search of lost memories. Two characters in one person: (“If they see beard and moustache, they call it man. If they see long hair and breasts, they call it woman. But look! The soul inside is neither man nor woman.”-Akka Mahadevi, 11th CE Siddhar saint)

Keiin Yoshimura  Japan
"Kamigatamai Yuki and Yashima"
Musician, Shamisen-player: Soh Sugiura
Dress assistant: Yasuko Tomita
Cordinater & Tech Assistance: Masahiko Kunihiro
Performed in Japanese
Duration: 1 hour



About Keiin;


Message from Japan...
(Mai as spiritual poem)
Mai is the awakening to soul.
Mai is the prayer for the Supreme.
Mai is the love of the Absolute  .
And Mai is the beautiful nature of Japan.
With the Mai we will pray to ‘The One’ that
the world will be a place to live in peace and love.







Performer, choreographer and art director of Kamigata-mai dance, Tokyo Japan
The head of Yoshimura Keiin Kamigata-mai Studio
The head of Kamigatamaitomonokai





About "Yuki" & "Yashima";
Yuki is one of the most popular jiuta dances. The text tells the story of a Buddhist nun who has lived in a nunnery, apart from the world, ever since she was disappointed in love while she was a young courtesan. The piece beautifully depicts the serenity of the mind of the woman, as the tolling of a temple bell in the snow reminds her of her past sorrows.
The instrumental interlude (ai-no-te) is used here to express the quiet tolling of a distant temple bell on a snowy evening. It has become so popular that its melancholy melody is often used in other dances as a kind of theme to suggest a snowy scene or to call forth a cold, dark atmosphere.
Kamigata-mai was born and developed in the Kamigata (Kyoto-Osaka) region of Japan in the 16th century. It was based on the “dancing“ tradition of Noh and Kyogen while it drew also on the techniques of puppet movements in Bunraku.
Typically, Noh, Kyogen and Bunraku as well, are performed by males, while the dances of Kamigata-mai are mainly performed by females.




 Margi Vijayakumar  Kerala, India
Artistic Director & Technical assistance:
Ravi Gopalan Nair
Performed in Malayalam and Sanskrit
Duration : 2 hours



About Margi;
Kathakali is the dance theatre of Kerala which evolved from around the 17th century to tell stories from the Ramayana and Mahabharatha. Shri Vijayakumar had his training from a very young age from the legendary Masters: Shri Mankulam Vishnu Namboothiri, Inchakattu Ramachandrn Pillai, Shri Kalamandalam Krishnan Nair.
After receiving training to perform all the Characters in the Kathakali repertoire, Vijayakumar specialised in the Streevesham (Female Characters).There is a saying that the portrayal of women in the Kathakali dance tradition by male actors is beyond all ages.

Shri Margi Vijayakumar is the most well known actor and a master of the Sthreevesham of Kathakali.

About "Putana Mokusham";
 The Lord Vishnu has incarnated in many forms on Earth. When the Lord took the Avatar of Vamana ( body of a dwarf) to punish King Mahabali – the sister of Mahabali, who was born as POOTHANA, a sorceress, in the Kingdom of Kamsa, had a wish from her motherly passion to feed breast milk to that childlike Vishnu. The compassionate Vishnu blessed her so that she would get a chance when Krishna was born.
 Now the story starts in Ambady the village of Gopalas and Gopikas. The child Krishna was born and saved from his crooked uncle king Kamsa. King Kamsa sent demons to search for and kill the child Krishna as well as to kill all the new born children. Poothana was asked to put the strongest poison on her breast and go feed all the children and to kill. When she arrived at Ambady, the child Krishna was sleeping and all the mothers were in the field to milk cows.
 When Poothana came and saw Krishna she was filled with motherly love, but she was given the order by the king to kill by feeding the poison from her breast. She took the smiling baby on her lap, enjoying the beauty of Krishna but feeling very confused. Krishna drank all the prana from her and she received Moksha.

 





 Macheri Parambil Padmavathy  Kerala, India
 "Ashta Naga Kalam Puluvan"
Artistic Director & Tech assistance: Ravi Gopalan Nair
Performed in Malayalam
Kalam drawing preparation: 7 hours
Performance Duration: 1 hour



About Macheri;
She was born into a family of the Pulluvan community who follow the traditional practise of Naga Kolam rituals and sing Pulluvan songs in Praise of the Naga gods who protect the Earth and its fertility and the cosmic world.
She received the basic practise of singing with Pulluvan Kudam (One string pot drum for singing songs of Naga Gods) from her father Kunjan Bhagavathar and mother Nani.
Padmavathy has been singing songs of the Naga Gods for 41 years and she has excellent skills used to make a big drawing of a Naga Kolam on the floor for the ritual. Her Guru in Naga Kalam is Shri Velayudhan. Every year she does more than 30 big festivals of Pulluvan Kolam and singing at Naga Shrines. She is also a very good healer who solves many problems in the family life, and also helps to prevent 96 kind of Mahavyadhi (problems which are not possible to heal with medicine).

About "Ashta Naga Kalam Puluvan";
Pulluvan and Pulluvathy the male and female are specialists in evoking the Serpent gods. Padmavathy is a specialist in singing and creating the big Naga Kolam. They hold a vast repertoire of Myths, songs,and Kolam (drawings on the floor to create the sanctorum  for Naga Gods. Ashta Naga Kolam is one of them. Two women who receive the Naga god will perform the possessed dance of the celestial serpent and will undo the Kolam (Beautiful drawing with 5 colour powders).


Nathalie Mentha  Switzerland/Italy
"Per Edith Piaf"
 Direction & Technical assistance: Pino Di Buduo
Performed in French
Duration: About 1 hour



About Nathalie;
Nathalie Mentha, after studying at Dimitri’s Theatre School  and at the Higher School of Dramatic Art in Geneva, in 1979 joined Teatro Potlach in Italy. With Teatro Potlach, she works as actor and teacher, participating in all its productions. Nathalie also assists Pino di Buduo for the realisation of the Cittá Invisibili projects around the world.

About "Per Edith Piaf";
This performance is a musical journey in the France of the 1930s and 1950s through Edith Piaf’s songs - stories of lives in the underworld of the French gangsters, stories of women in love, stories of passions, of dreams, of memories.

This is a tale which starts in 1939, a crucial historical moment throughout Europe. It is the period of Jacques Prévert’s poetry, of Cartier-Bresson’s photography, of Jean Cocteau’s theatre tales, of the coming of the Second World War which will destroy so many families, of the songs from Charlie Chaplin’s films, of the images and characters of De Sica’s film “Roma Città Aperta”, of the French Resistance, of the struggle for life and for love.

The performance theme, the soul which ties all the stories together, and maybe even more Edith Piaf’s own soul, seems to be: “Whatever happens, don’t ever stop believing in love”.





Parvathy Baul   Bengal, India
Actor/singer : Parvathy Baul Kerala/Bengal India
Artistic Director: Ravi Gopalan Nair
Performed in Bengali
Duration: 1 hour


About Parvathy; 
Parvathy Baul is well known for her masterful solo rendering in the oldest style of Baul song and dance.  She inherited this style from the “Parampara” of Shri Sanatan Das Baul and Shri Shashannko Goshai. Over a period of 18 years she has been traveling to meet masters of Bengal music traditions as a part of her search for Baul songs and its practice. These songs deal with universal love, the human body and the universe, and deny all the human made boundaries in life and practice. Parvathy has practiced various disciplines such as painting, print making, theatre, dance, the art of  storytelling, folksongs of Bengal, and Yoga.  She created Ekathara Kalari in Trivandrum in collaboration with Ravi Gopalan Nair, a meeting place and a Gurukul for practitioners from various traditions. She is a full-time Sadhika (Practitioner) and one of the very few women who could withstand the hardships of the practitioner’s way of living. She has been performing both in India and abroad since 2000.

About "Radha Bhav";
Radha Bhav (Bhava or the changing inner state of Radha in the divine longing for her beloved) tells a story of unconditional love between Radha and Krishna. Radhabhav stories are sung throughout Bengal, devoid of religion and cast. These stories remain as examples of unconditional love, non-violence, peace and eternal joy. For Baul practitioners Radha is not only a goddess but also a practitioner herself in search, one who finally reaches her ultimate destination and attains oneness with her beloved, the dark one, Krishna. Aesthetically, Krishna is imagined as the whole universe. Radha Krishna is the inner soul of the seeker who longs to merge with the absolute. Parvathy has created the paintings for the story-telling from her own associations. In this story both Radha and Krishna are imagined in human form.








Roxana Pineda  Cuba 
Inspired in Ophelia from the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Designers: Joel Sáez & Roxana Pineda
 Dramaturgy and direction:  Joel Sáez
Performed in Spanish
Duration: 50 minutes



About Roxana;
Roxana Pineda graduated in Theatre Studies and Dramaturgy at the Instituto Superior de Arte de Cuba in 1985. She founded the Estudio Teatral de Santa Clara in 1989 with Joel Sáez, and has performed
in all its productions, Roxana has toured festivals in Latin American countries and in different parts of Europe.
Roxana is a theatre scholar and professor, and as such she regularly gives workshops on improvisation and composition. Her articles are published regularly in Cuban theatre journals and magazines. In 2004, she founded the Centro de Investigaciones Teatrales Odiseo (CITO), a pedagogical theatre research project which has hosted five international meetings. She is the director of Magdalena Sin Fronteras, a triennial international festival and meeting.

About "Piel de Violetas";
Piel de Violetas is the fifth performance created by the Estudio Teatral de Santa Clara; it is inspired by one of William Shakespeare’s most well known characters. Passages belonging to Ophelia or that refer to this character have been extracted from Hamlet to weave a complete and defined story. The performance develops through associations and a flow of consciousness in an almost dream-like structure, where events, presented in a non-realistic way, follow the logic of an intimate meditation that occurs after things have happened. Yet, the sensation of present time is given by a new plot and a particular poetic vision, belonging to the performance itself.




 Rwita Dutta Chakraborty  Bengal, India
 Direction: Tripti Mitra
Playwrite : Nitish Sen
Technician : Shantilal Mukherjee
Performed in Bengali
Duration: About 1 hour




About Rwita;
 Born in the small picturesque town of Balurghat in North Bengal (India), Rwita completed her school and graduated from her native place. She then moved to the metropolis of Kolkata to complete her post graduation (Master of Arts in Sanskrit language) from Jadavpur University . She followed it up with a teachers’ training course (Bachelor of Education) under Calcutta University. Although Rwita was getting all set to enter into the world of academics, her heart wanted to fly free in the horizon of creative arts. She, finally, surrendered to her passion for acting and started trickling into the arena of radio, television and stage-plays. It was not long before the Bengal theatre Connoisseurs  could easily spot the talent in her and Rwita could stand apart from the rest and could make an identity of her own.

About “Nibedone Aparajita”;
Tripti Mitra (1925-1989) was an unparalleled stalwart of Bengali cum Indian Theatre.

I was extremely fortunate to have her as my Guru, one who allowed me to stay with her for days & months,and sit by her feet to discover the unfolding world of theatre and acting.

“Aparajita” (1971) was one of her prime productions, embedded with her solo performance for more than two hours. Aparajita, -- the unbeatable -- is the monologue of a middle-class, average, ordinary Bengali girl, who had missed her calling for almost her whole life, - education, singing, acting, employment, and even marriage. The challenges of her life rise to beat the unbeatable Aparajita.

 “Nibedone Aparajita”, as the name suggests, is my humble tribute to my beloved Guru, who unlike her stage character, was truly Aparajita.





Shri Eugenio Barba  Denmark/Italy
Talk;
“DIALOGUE WITH MY MOTHERS”


About Shri Eugenio Barba;
Eugenio Barba was born in Italy in 1936 where he lived until the age of 15. After graduating, Barba began work as a welder in Norway. After a year of welding, Barba went to work on a Merchant Marine vessel so he could join a ship he knew would be travelling through countries which he had become fascinated with, especially in the Indian performing arts traditions. Whilst working on his ship he got to travel through the Middle East, Africa, Lapland and other parts of Scandinavia. In 1965, Barba graduated from the University of Oslo with a Master of Arts degree in French and Norwegian literature and the history of religion.
It was in Poland that Eugenio Barba met Jerzey Grotowski. Barba then stayed and worked with Grotowski for the next three years. 

1963 – travelled to India and wrote an essay on Kathakali, a form of theatre that had been overlooked by the West. The essay was published in France, Italy, the US and Denmark.

1965 – His first book about Grotowski, In Search of a Lost Theatre, was published in Hungary and Italy.

1979 – He founded the International School of Theatre Anthroplogy (ISTA). During the past forty two years Eugenio Barba has directed 65 Productions with Odin Teatret and the Theatrum Mundi Ensemble.

Barba has written and is referenced in many books and is the winner of many awards.


About "DIALOGUE WITH MY MOTHERS";
Eugenio Barba will recall the most important meetings with people who gave him life, opening new perspectives in his personal and professional life. The talk will be accompanied by demonstrations by Julia Varley and short fragments of films from Odin Teatret’s travels, barters and performances.