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El desmontaje de "Rosa Cuchillo"
Full text linkEl desmontaje de Rosa Cuchillo (The deconstruction of Rosa Cuchillo) presents the process of creation of a performance by Ana Correa, an actress of the Peruvian theatre group Yuyachkani. The text gives an account on the artistic choices and elements of training, dance, martial arts and improvisation at the base of the work. Ana Correa reflects on her condition as an actress in the context of her family and society
Theatre Anthropology: 40 years on
Full text linkFor the first issue of the Journal of Theatre Anthropology, which appears fortyone years after the first session of ISTA in Bonn, Ruffini recalls the original research conducted in the field of theatre anthropology and its professional and ethical implications still valid today
The First Session of ISTA
Full text linkWritten in 1981 by Jean-Marie Pradier, one of the founding members of the International School of Theatre Anthropology, the article offers a report of the first session held in Bonn between 1-31 October 1980. In the report, Pradier highlights the different composition of the groups who took part in the ISTA directed by Eugenio Barba: on one side about 20 masters of Asian performance traditions who gave demonstrations, classes, workshops and performances; and on the other the scholars joined by guests like Jerzy Grotowski and Henri Laborit. Pradier reflects on the several possibilities opened by theatre anthropology as a new transcultural and interdisciplinary field of studies
El valor político de la antropología teatral
Full text linkAna Woolf, Argentinian actress and director, proposes an account on her relationship with theatre anthropology, since she very first ‘discovered’ it in the early 1990s, and its effect on her personal artistic work. In the article, Ana Woolf explains how theatre anthropology acquires social, political and intercultural functions in the Latin American context
A Dialogue Between East and West
Full text linkThis article presents an English translation of an interview by Franco Ruffini to the Japanese scholar Moriaki Watanabe during the first session of ISTA in 1980, originally published in the French journal Bouffonneries 4, 1982 (57-61). Starting from research and pedagogy in the framework of ISTA, Ruffini and Watanabe discuss about their respective traditions of studies and performing cultures
Developing a New Language
Full text linkOriginally published in Théâtre International (1, 1981. 19-22) by the English actor, director and scholar Clive Barker (Rose Bruford College, UK). In the article, Barker welcomes the new proposal of theatre anthropology launched by Barba and offers historical and theoretical keys of reflection inspired by the work conducted at ISTA. Barker also addresses the possibility of coexistence between practical research and its theoretical output
La dramaturgie et les textes de l’actrice: Questions à Julia Varley
Full text linkPatrice Pavis reflects on the relation between the actor, the text, and the sub-text, after a work demonstration by Julia Varley entitled The Echo of Silence, which took place in Saintes (France) in 1991, in the context of a series of meetings organised by Jean-Marie Pradier (“Emotions and Complexity”). A fertile discussion with Varley and other scholars too (Ruffini, Taviani, Risum) led to a broader analysis on the issues of text, subtext, score and subscore. The article was published for the first time in the journal Degrès (97-98-99, 1999, e1-15)
Photographic diary: First ISTA session, Bonn, 1-31 October 1980
Full text link"As the days progressed and the work in the school evolved, my task as photographer began to get complicated. Everything was always the same and yet always different. Something was happening that the camera could no longer grasp the way I felt it. I realised that the relationships between the people were changing, between all of us who lived there, each doing their own work. This repeatedly escaped the camera although I took it everywhere with me, quietly accepted by everyone. So, I decided to photograph what for me was the reflection of this new relationship: each of us as the days went by and in the evolution of the work within the school". Nicola Savares