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Eugenio Barba | Existential excavator

Theatre director, researcher, educator, writer

"Working with one's own ghosts, one's own obsessions and illusions means lending one's ear to bodiless voices that guide us. Personal tradition is an echo that comes from afar." - Eugenio Barba
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Eugenio Barba’s work “has spanned many fields: the artistic creation of performances, theoretical reflection, pedagogy and the transmission of experience, the preservation of historical memory, the scientific study of the actor/dancer’s technique, the use of theatre ‘outside the theatre’ in social and crosscultural contexts throughout the world with the aim of activating relationships between different cultures and ethnic groups.”

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Purchase The Paper Canoe: A Guide to Theatre Anthropology by Eugenio Barba on Amazon


Read The Paradox of the Sea, a speech presented by Eugenio Barba at the University of Plymouth in which he invites us to consider the paradox at the heart of theatre: a paradox that is constituted by acceptance and inclusion, as much as by exile and isolation.

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