Journal of Theatre Anthropology
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The Practice of Seeing: Interview by Claudio Coloberti
Full text linkFilm director Claudio Coloberti interviewed theatre history scholar Nicola Savarese on his ‘reporter’ experience when he documented the first session of ISTA in Bonn in October 1980 with photographs, recordings of the dialogues and cultural exchanges between the different protagonists. The many difficulties confronted by Savarese due to the absolute novelty of the situation that involved students and teachers from all over the world, and particularly from Asia, made him aware that ISTA was a school that taught to see technical and psycho-physical analogies in the actor’s work in different theatre cultures by a continuous interweaving of practice and theory. After following the ISTA in Volterra in 1981, the ‘reporter’s work’ gave way to the elaboration with Eugenio Barba of the successful book A Dictionary of Theatre Anthropology
Poetics, Borderlessness, Frameworks: Principles of theatre anthropology in film
Full text linkIn this article Luciana Martuchelli presents her theatre poetics in dialogue with historical figures and film acting techniques, with examples of the principles of theatre anthropology she has used in her work as acting coach for films
The Visible and the Invisible in Theatre: Letter to Phillip Zarrilli
Full text linkThis writing is a letter published in The Drama Review 32, 3, 1988 p. 7-14, through which Eugenio Barba answers to the article “For Whom Is the ‘Invisible’ Not Visible?”, written by Phillip Zarrilli about the 4th ISTA International Session “The Female Role as Represented on the Stage in Various Cultures”, published in The Drama Review 32,1, 1988 p. 95-106
Retejiendo la raíz rota: Por las rutas de la antropología teatral
Full text linkIn this article Miguel Rubio Zapata presents his personal point of view on theatre anthropology as a field of observation through which to relate to other cultures and theatre traditions from different parts of the world. The article also presents a detailed report of the traditional Fiesta de la Virgen del Carmen (Paucartambo, Peru?) and its different dances, masks and characters
Odin Actors Were My Rivals! Interview by Jonah Salz
Full text linkThe Japanese noh actor Akira Matsui is interviewed by Jonah Salz in August 2021 about his encounters with Eugenio Barba reflecting on his decade-long collaboration with ISTA and Odin Teatret in Spain, Bali, Italy and Denmark. Akira Matsui reflects on the intercultural experience of performing Ur-Hamlet as part of the Theatrum Mundi Ensemble directed by Eugenio Barba, having to interact on stage with performers of other traditions
Opening a Mental Horizon: Interview by Claudio Coloberti
Full text linkInterviewed by Claudio Coloberti in 2007, the Italian scholar Franco Ruffini narrates his collaboration with Barba and his participation in the first sessions of ISTA (Bonn 1980, Volterra 1981, Salento 1987). In a fertile context of scientific and artistic inves- tigation, Ruffini developed his interests in theatre through a variety of disciplines, in contact with different interlocutors, both scholars and practitioners. ISTA sessions made possible a broader investigation on acting techniques and were the context to explore a living learning process, exercising attention, observation and dialectical reflection
The Energy of the Actor
Full text linkIn this article of 1987, the Italian scholar Nando Taviani offers a view of the actor’s “energy” as a “premise” for artistic and theoretical research. Elaborating the fundamentals of theatre anthropology and replying to common objections, Taviani defines theatre anthropology as a “hand-made theory”. Ian Watson later considered this definition as one of the most successful. Taviani also discusses the relationship of theatre anthropology with science and the complementarity of energy as animus and anima according to Barba. The article was originally published in French in the journal Bouffonneries (15-16, L’énergie de l’acteur. Anthropologie Théâtrale 2, 1987, 23-32)
Reading for the "Flying house": Barba's early research towards theatre anthropology
Full text linkThe article examines some of Eugenio Barba’s study material now preserved in the Fonds Barba at Odin Teatret Archives (ISTA Series, b. 1). Barba’s readings preceding the first edition of the ISTA in Bonn in 1980 trace the development of interests cultivated by the director, from humanities to science (biology, neuropsychology, studies of perception, posturology). Even before developing the theory of theatre anthropology as an autonomous discipline, Barba evolved many fertile perspectives of study on energy, within which he expanded the understanding of presence as a fundamental component of theatre. Barba’s reading notes reveal an intellectual approach similar to his artistic work: the accumulation of an overabundance of material, which in the theoretical sphere, too, invert the principle of maximum results with minimum effort