Negotiating cultures : Eugenio Barba and the intercultural debate / Ian Watson and colleagues.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Watson, Ian, 1947-

Series:

Theatre (Manchester, England)

Theatre

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Barba, Eugenio.

Theater--Anthropological aspects.

Theater.

Barba, Eugenio--Criticism and interpretation.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

xix, 275 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Manchester, UK ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2002.

Summary:

"Negotiating Cultures" is a collection of essays and interviews that examines the role of cultural fusion, negotiation, and conflict in Eugenio Barba's creative work, research, and theories about theatrical performance. Barba, one of Europe's leading theatre artists, researchers, and theorists, has been at the cutting edge of the contemporary preoccupation with what Homi Bhabha calls the borders between cultures.

Contents:

Foreword: a handful of snow / Franc Chamberlain xi

Introduction: contexting Barba / Ian Watson 1

I ISTA and Theatre Anthropology

1 Staging Theatre Anthropology / Ian Watson 20

2 Transcultural dialogue: lecture/demonstrations at ISTA / Nicola Savarese 36

3 Actor as refusenik: Theatre Anthropology, semiotics and the paradoxical work of the body / Nigel Stewart 46

4 Finding equilibrium in disequilibrium: the impact of ISTA on its Balinese participants / I Nyoman Catra, Ron Jenkins 59

5 Odissi and the ISTA dance: an interview with Sanjukta Panigrahi / Ron Jenkins, Ian Watson 67

6 Interculturalism and the individual performer: an interview with the Odin actress Roberta Carreri / Ian Watson 76

II Barter: performance as cultural exchange

7 The dynamics of barter / Ian Watson 94

8 Border, barters and beads: in search of intercultural Arcadia / Maria Shevtsova 112

9 Theatre presence: sea lanes, Sardinia, 1975 / Eugenio Barba, Iben Nagel Rasmussen, Tony D'urso, Ferdinando Taviani 128

10 Provocation anthropology: bartering performance in Africa / Mette Bovin 142

11 Invisible cities: an interview with Pino di Buduo / Ian Watson 159

III Latin America and the Third Theatre

12 Barba's other culture / Ian Watson 170

13 The house with two doors / Eugenio Barba 183

14 The Third Theatre: a legacy of independence / Ian Watson 197

15 About islands and woods: notes on a journey to the Odin Teatret / Miguel Rubio 221

IV A dialogue with Eugenio Barba

16 The conquest of difference: an electronic dialogue / Eugenio Barba, Ian Watson 234.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0719061695

0719061709

OCLC:

49513480

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