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Giving Life to the Past: Theatre Anthropology at Odin Teatret Archives
Full text linkOTA (Odin Teatret Archives) keeps many documents concerning theatre anthropology and ISTA. After a brief description of the catalogues, the article gives several examples of the varied perspectives of research that scholars, students and theatre practitioners interested in ISTA and theatre anthropology can undertake through the consultation of paper documents, photos and videos stored at OTA
Interviews with Asian Artists
Full text linkFranco Ruffini speaks with Sanjukta Panigrahi, Katsuko Azuma, I Made Pasek Tempo and Tsao Chun-Lin, the Asian teachers who took part in the first ISTA session in Bonn in 1980. The interviews were published in La scuola degli attori, edited by Franco Ruffini (Firenze 1981). At the end of the Volterra session in 1981, Franco Ruffini asked two questions to the Asian teachers who had also participated at the first session in Bonn. The interviews were published in Bouffonneries 4, 1983
Le Milieu Scène: Pré-expression, énergie, présence
Full text linkIn this essay, Franco Ruffini introduces and applies the notion of the savannah for theoretical and practical research within theatre anthropology, offering a wide spectrum of methodological and essential tools for inquiry. Among others, the elements discussed by Ruffini concern reality and levels of analysis, the relation with Asian cultures, energy of the actor and pre-expression, presence, second nature, adaptation, score. This article by Ruffini was originally published in Bouffonneries (15-16, L’énergie de l’acteur. Anthropologie Théâtrale 2, 1987, 33-52)
Rapport sur la 2ème session de l’ISTA
Full text linkAfter the end of the 2nd edition of ISTA held in Volterra in 1981 between August 5th to October 7th, Elsass, Pradier and Taviani, members of the scientific staff, report on the activities which took place in the longest session of ISTA. The report was sent to UNESCO and to the International Theatre Institute in Paris in October 1981. The text was originally published in the French Journal « Bouffonneries » (no. 4, 1982, 109-121). At the end of the document, the authors present the possibility of the creation of a permanent International School of Theatre Anthropology
Score and Sub-score: A useful but wrong word
Full text linkJulia Varley reacts to the questions addressed to her by the French scholar Patrice Pavis during a lecture which was held in 1992 for the 7th session of ISTA (International School of Theatre Anthropology) in Brecon and Cardiff. Reflecting on her work as an actress, Varley interrogates crucial aspects such as the observation of other’s work, professionalism, theatre craft, acting techniques, mental process. Furthermore, Varley addresses the notion of “sub-score”, beyond “sub-text”, discussed by ISTA participants and scientific staff
Theatre Anthropology
Full text linkEnglish translation of the essay on theatre anthropology written by Franco Ruffini in 1986 and published in the first issue of the Italian journal Teatro e Storia. Six years after the first session of ISTA, Ruffini analyses the methodological and historical peculiarities of the pedagogical activities, highlighting the cultural connections and differences with other fields of research. In his article, Ruffini offers a detailed account of the main principles of theatre anthropology and its tools for research
Letters after the First ISTA Symposium
Full text linkFor the Symposium organised during the first session of ISTA (Bonn 1980), Eugenio Barba asked the guests to write their comments on what they had seen. The letters by Thomas Bredsdorff, Jean-Jacques Daetwyler, Nicole Revel-Macdonald and Raymonde Temkine, presented here in an English translation, were originally published in La scuola degli attori, edited by Franco Ruffini (Firenze 1981)
How ISTA Came Into Being
Full text linkIn this text, Eugenio Barba traces back the origins of ISTA and its first steps. After having directed several international encounters of group theatres in the second half of the 1970s (Belgrade, Bergamo, Madrid and Leiketio), in 1980 Barba was invited to organise a new encounter in Germany by Hans-Jürgen Nagel, head of the Kulturamt in Bonn. This proposition offered to Barba the opportunity to conceive the first ISTA session in October 1980, just preceded by the lecture in Warsaw where Barba presented his definition of theatre anthropology as a new transcultural field of studies. The article was originally published in The Tradition of ISTA, edited by Rina Skeel (Londrina 1994, 19-20), and in The Performers’ Village, edited by Kirsten Hastrup (Drama, Graasten 1996, 24-25)
First Hypothesis
Full text linkTranscription of a lecture by Eugenio Barba in Warsaw in May 1980 published in Théâtre International no 1, London 1981. It is the first time Barba mentions the new term of theatre anthropology defining it as the study of the human being in a situation of enactment and representation in an organised theatre or dance performance. He points out three technical principles which he considers as the “laws” determining the various acting styles in different traditions
L'Acteur dans la savanne - et sur scène: un voyage dans l'univers conceptuel de l'ISTA
Full text linkIn dialogue with contributions by the Italian scholars Nando Taviani and Franco Ruffini, Janne Risum discusses the historical and methodological features of theatre anthropology and questions some of its key arguments. In this context, notions such as the cultural, sociological and anthropological aspects of the actor can be analysed in a unique concept of “cultural savannah”, where the phenomena are all observable phenomenologically. For the original Danish version of this article in French translation: see Janne Risum, “Skuespilleren på savannen - og på scenen. Et besøg i ISTA’s begrebsverden” in At synliggøre det usynlige: En antologi, ed. E. E. Christoffersen (Århus: Institut for Dramaturgi, 1987), 35-56 (texts by K. D. Kjeldsen, E. Christoffersen, E. Barba, J. Risum, R. Schechner, E. Thomsen)