Barba, Eugenio.
The Paper Canoe. London New York: Routledge, 1995.
Barba, Eugenio
Land of ashes and diamonds. Centre for Performance Research, Wales UK: Black Hills Press. 1999
Barba, Eugenio
Théâtre (solitude, métier, révolte). Saussan France : L’Entretemps. 1999.
Basically, theater anthropology is defined as the study of the performer in a situation of performance. Barba and Savarese edited a collection of articles (1991/1999) which reviews aspects of these studies focusing on topics such as balance, energy, oppositions and others, and the use of the body and its parts (such as face, hands, feet and spine). Eugenio Barba and the actors of the Odin Teatret and other collaborators founded the International School of Theatre Anthropology (ISTA) in 1979. Theater anthropology provides an opportunity to put together performers from different cultural traditions, in a setting of intercultural theater, according to the basic definition involving the body, the persona and the socio-historical background. The different levels of body training, individual and collective (cultural, social, professional), create this ‘pre-expressive’ dimension of the body as a witness/vehicle of its apprenticeships.