Negotiating Cultures Eugenio Barba and the Intercultural Debate

by Watson, Ian

• ISBN13: 9780719061707
• ISBN10: 0719061709
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-06-27
• Publisher: Manchester University Press

Summary

Negotiating Culturesis 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.

Author Biography

Ian Watson is Deputy Chair of the Department of Visual and Performing Arts as well as Coordinator of the Theater and Television Programs at Rutgers University-Newark.

Table of Contents

List of plates	ix
Foreword: a handful of snow	xi
Franc Chamberlain
Introduction: contexting Barba	1	(19)
Ian Watson
I ISTA and Theatre Anthropology
Staging Theatre Anthropology	20	(16)
Ian Watson
Transcultural dialogue: lecture/demonstrations at ISTA	36	(10)
Nicola Savarese
Actor as refusenik: Theatre Anthropology, semiotics and the paradoxical work of the body	46	(13)
Nigel Stewart
Finding equilibrium in disequilibrium: the impact of ISTA on its Balinese participants	59	(8)
I Nyoman Catra
Ron Jenkins
Odissi and the ISTA dance: an interview with Sanjukta Panigrahi	67	(9)
Ron Jenkins
Ian Watson
Interculturalism and the individual performer: an interview with the Odin actress Roberta Carreri	76	(18)
Ian Watson
II Barter: performance as cultural exchange
The dynamics of barter	94	(18)
Ian Watson
Border, barters and beads: in search of intercultural Arcadia	112	(16)
Maria Shevtsova
Theatre presence: sea lanes, Sardinia, 1975	128	(14)
Eugenio Barba
Iben Nagel Rasmussen
Tony D'Urso
Ferdinando Taviani
Provocation anthropology: bartering performance in Africa	142	(17)
Mette Bovin
Invisible cities: an interview with Pino di Buduo	159	(11)
Ian Watson
III Latin America and the Third Theatre
Barba's other culture	170	(13)
Ian Watson
The house with two doors	183	(14)
Eugenio Barba
The Third Theatre: a legacy of independence	197	(24)
Ian Watson
About islands and woods: notes on a journey to the Odin Teatret	221	(13)
Miguel Rubio
IV A dialogue with Eugenio Barba
The conquest of difference: an electronic dialogue	234	(29)
Eugenio Barba
Ian Watson
Contributors	263	(4)
Index	267