The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center presents A Conversation with Eugenio Barba and Julia Varley / Odin Teatret livestreaming on the worldwide, commons-based, peer-produced HowlRound TV community on Tuesday 30 May 2023 at 9:30 a.m. PDT (San Francisco, UTC -7) / 11:30 a.m. CDT (Chicago, UTC -5) / 12:30 p.m. EDT (New York, UTC -4).
Join us for a chat with Barba and Varley about their present initiatives. The 2022 Living Archive Floating Islands challenge, conceived by Eugenio Barba, can be put in this yr on the Bernardini Library in Lecce, Italy. Barba donated his private library in addition to his private collections regarding his creative work to the Polo Biblio-Museale in Puglia. The Fondazione Barba Varley now goals at selling, researching and finding out the numerous and extremely influential historical past of Odin Teatret, the Third Theatre in addition to Eugenio Barba’s life and creative profession. Barba, who was born within the Salento area of Puglia in Southern Italy, credit the panorama and folks of Salento as considered one of his most vital influences.
The dialog can even contact on the Transit Next Forum—Theatre and Women, a collective created by Varley to boost alternatives for ladies in theatre and improve the notice of ladies’s contribution to up to date theatre. With it’s native house within the city of Holstebro in Denmark the aim of the worldwide Transit Next Forum operates in shut contact to The Magdalena Project and its huge community.
Eugenio Barba (born 1936) is creative director and founding father of Odin Teatret. During the previous fifty-six years he has directed greater than eighty seventy productions with Odin Teatret and the intercultural Theatrum Mundi Ensemble. In 1979 he based ISTA—International School of Theatre Anthropology. His distinctive work methodology has been developed from his pal and colleague Jerzy Grotowski’s bodily actors’ coaching and voice work, and along with Odin Teatret he has developed the ‘barter’, a means of exchanging cultural expressions with a group throughout the construction of a efficiency.
Julia Varley (born in 1954 in London) joined Odin Teatret in 1976. Apart from appearing she is energetic in directing, instructing, organizing, and writing. At the age of three she moved to Milan, Italy, the place she did her education, together with Philosophy Studies at Milan University. With Odin Teatret, Julia Varley teaches in faculties and universities and has synthesized her expertise in 4 work demonstrations: The Echo of Silence, The Dead Brother, Text, Action, Relations, and The Flying Carpet.