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Book SynopsisThis work examines three major strands of the work Eugenio Barba, a leading theatre artist and theorist, working across cultures: his research at the International School of Theatre Anthropology; his use of performance as a means of exchange, and his relationship with Latin America.
Table of ContentsList of plates
List of figures
Foreword - A handful of snow - Franc Chamberlain
Introduction - Contexting Barba - Ian Watson
ISTA and theatre anthropology
1. Staging theatre anthropology - Ian Watson
2. Transcultural dialogue: Lecture/demonstrations at ISTA - Nicola Saverese
3. Actor as refusenik: Semiotics, theatre anthropology, and the work of the body - Nigel Stewart
4. Finding equilibrium in disequilibrium: the impact of ISTA on its Balinese participants - I Nyoman Catra and Ron Jenkins
5. Odissi and the ISTA dance: an interview with Sanjukta Panigrahi - Ron Jenkins and Ian Watson
6. Interculturalism and the individual performer: an interview with the Odin actress Roberta Carreri - Ian Watson
Barter: Performance as cultural exchange
7. The dynamics of barter - Ian Watson
8. Borders, barters and beads: in search of intercultural arcadia - Maria Shevtsova
9. Theatre presence: sea lanes, Sardinia 1975 - Iben Nagel Rasmussen, Eugenio Barba, Tony D'Urso and Ferdinando Taviani
10. Provocation anthropology: bartering performance in Africa - Mette Bovin
11. Invisible cities: an interview with Pino Di Buduo - Ian Watson
Latin America and the third theatre
12. Barba's other culture - Ian Watson
13. The house with two doors - Eugenio Barba
14. The third theatre: a legacy of independence - Ian Watson
15. About islands and woods: notes on a journey to the Odin Teatret - Miguel Rubio
A dialogue with Eugenio Barba
16. The conquest of difference: an electronic dialogue - Eugenio Barba and Ian Watson
List of contributors
Index
