ADEM
Ateliers d’Ethno-Musicologie (Ethnomusicology Workshops), Geneva.
Center for the performance and teaching of expressive arts, music and dance across cultures. Founded and directed by ethnomusicologist

Laurent AUBERT
who is also the chief editor of the yearly Cahiers de Musique Traditionnelle.
www.adem.ch

ALIAS
Dance company, Geneva. Features great performers who have gone solo, such as Kylie WALTERS.
http://www.alias-cie.ch

ALEXANDER, Neil
US photographer and documentary film- maker. Worked with Kevin McCAFFREY during Katrina
http://www.findingthuy.com/CONTACT.htm
http://www.indiepixfilms.com/promo/katrina/katrina/bios.html

ALTMAN, Robert
Altman’s approach of narration, staging several parallel stories and linking them through triggering events,
while developing montage techniques to finalize these stories.
This work make him an inspiring master in the context of my research project. Also see Sergei EISENSTEIN.

ALVAREZ, Gabriel
Founder and director of the Théâtre Galpón, Geneva, Alvarez previously founded the CITA (Cientro de Investigacion Teatral de Aragon),
and his current working project, the SAT (Studio d’Action Théâtrale), in Geneva .
www.galpon.ch
www.cita.ch
http://www.cita.ch/colaboradores.htm

AM STRAM GRAM
Theatre for children, founded and directed by Dominique CATTON, Geneva
www.amstramgram.ch

APPARTENANCES
Group of ethnotherapists, who work with people in migration, refugees and asylum seekers in Lausanne, Switzerland.
Founders are François Fleury, Jean-Claude Métraux and Amilcar Ciola.
www.appartenances.ch

APTER, Norbert
Humanist psychodramatist and psychotherapist
www.odef.ch

ARTAUD, Antonin
See work by Geneva comedienne Isabelle CHLADEK.
www.antoninartaud.org/home.html
www.theatrehistory.com/french/artaud001.html

ARTISTI IN PIAZZA
Enrico PARTISANI, director ; talent-scout and artists’ manager
http://artistiinpiazza.com/2008

AUBERT, Vincent
Comedian and clown, Geneva.
http://www.comedien.ch/f/23/fiche_comedien.php
http://www.scenesmagazine.com/spip.php?article1068

AUFAIR, Maurice
Actor and founding member of the Théâtre de Carouge, Geneva, a legendary place and experimental group, since the 1960s.
www.theatredecarouge-geneve.ch
http://www.comedien.ch/f/25/fiche_comedien.php

BARBA, Eugenio
Founder and director of the Odin Teatret in Denmark. Barba also created ISTA (International School of Theatre Anthropology),
a research methodology and a network about the work of the actor.
http://www.odinteatret.dk

BARREIROS, Silvia
Spanish actress and director.
http://www.comedien.ch/f/45/fiche_comedien.php
http://www.bookpariscasting.com/silvia_barreiros-torres

BARZAGHI, Mario
Italian actor from Milan, trained in both Commedia Dell’Arte and Kathakali.
Currently participates in the SAT’s productions, Galpón Theater, Geneva.
http://www.kalpana.it/ita/arte/mario_barzaghi.htm
http://www.kalpana.it/common/photographs/italy/bologna/12.htm

Roger BASTIDE
French sociologist, a specialist of candomblé da Bahia
http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Bastide
Also see Pierre VERGER, and Alfred METRAUX, for Haïti
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Metraux

La BÂTIE Festival
In Geneva. A yearly event: 2 weeks of theater, dance and music productions,
often yet unknown performers and groups, to be discovered.
http://www.batie.ch/2008

BAUSCH, Pina
www.pina-bausch.de
http://en.wikipedia/wiki/Pina_Bausch

BENNEGADI Rachid
Cultural psychiatrist, Paris. Member of the Minkowska Foundation:
http://www.minkowska.com/eng/IMG/pdf/Microsoft_Word_-_Plaquette_centre_v6_eng.pdf
http://www.answers.com/topic/minkowska-brokman-fran-oise

BLUES
http://www.bluesfestivalguide.com
http://jazzinternet.com/blues
http://mnblues.com/links.html
http://www.bluesrevue.com
http://www.live365.com/stations/topblues
http://www.pbs.org/theblues
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Folk_Blues_Festival

BOAL, Augusto
http://en.wikipedia.org/Augusto_Boal

BODY PERFORMERS
Body art + action, i.e., risking one’s body in significant performances:
Goldberg, Rosalee
Performance: A hidden history, in: Gregory Battcock & Robert Nickas (eds),
The art of performance: a critical anthology, New York: E.P. Dutton, 1984: 24-36.
Goldberg, Rosalee
Performance (live art since 1960). New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc. Publishers. 1998.
Featuring: Marina ABRAMOVIC, Franko B., ORLAN, STELARC
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marina_Abramovic  
www.franko-b.com/gallery/g_performance4.htm  ; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franko_B
www.orlan.net  ;  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orlan
www.stelarc.va.com.au/index.html

BOEHNLEIN, James
President of SSPC (Society for the Study of Psychiatry and Culture)
www.psychiatryandculture.org

BORELLA, Francesco Satyana
MD and visual artist
http://www.artstudio10.com/dos.html

BOUVET Jérôme & 2 Rien Merci
http://www.2rienmerci.com

BRAND, Marianne
http://www.galeriembrand.ch
http://www.parcoursceramiquecarougeois.ch

BRASIL
Some sites of general interest
http://cade.search.yahoo.com
http://bahia.com.br/motix/pt_br
http://bahia-online.net
Music & Radio station
http://www.barbatuques.com.br
http://www.live365.com/stations/djpardal
Cooking
http://www.bahia-online.net/FoodinSalvador.htm

BRONZINO, Emmanuelle
Le Matin Bleu, Carouge, Geneva – Stylist
Go see her presentations: models are real natural women of all ages, not cosmetic victims.
http://web.mac.com/matinbleu/matinbleu/Bienvenue.html

BROOK, Peter
www.peterbrook.net
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Brook

CANDOMBLÉ
Ka (Fanti-ashanti: traditions)  N’dombé (Congo: the African ancestor)   Ilê (Ioruba: the house).
Candomblé is “The house where they celebrate the traditions of the African ancestor”.
African-Brazilian religion from the Ioruba slaves of the Nagô rite.
http://ocandomble.wordpress.com/category/musicadanca-dos-orixas
http://www.bahia-online.net/Candomble.htm

CANNON Gerald Lee
Visual artist, New Orleans
http://cmfa.loyno.edu/faculty/gerald-l-cannon

CAPPON, Zoé
This site’s distinguished webmaster; visual artist and chanteuse with:
http://www.whatswrongwithus.ch

CARLSSON, Carolyn
www.atelierdeparis.org/french/apcc/cc.html

CARRERI, Roberta & Torgeir WETHAL
Actors at the Odin Teatret, Holstebro, Denmark.
Wethal is a co-founder with Eugenio BARBA and he is the documentary film-maker of the Odin’s archives.
www.odinteatret.dk

CARYBE (aka Hector BARNABÓ)
Prominent multimedia visual artist in Bahia, originary from Argentina.
Informal historical trio with writer Jorge AMADO and musician Dorival CAYMMI.
Also close to ethnologist Pierre Fatumbi VERGER.
http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caryb%C3%A9
www.pitoresco.com/brasil/carybe/carybe.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorge_Amado
http://www.fundacaojorgeamado.com.br/index2.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorival_Caymmi
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATRYXkvBkKM

CHLADEK, Isabelle
Geneva actress, a specialist of Antonin ARTAUD.
http://www.theatre221.ch/th/saison/archive/saison2007/208.html?locale=fr&branch=1&language=1

CHRISTOFFERSEN, Erik Exe
Theater scholar who has worked with and written about the Odin Teatret.
http://books.google.com/books?id=8FP4mmncIykC&dq=erik+exe+christoffersen&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=qdlGhkI70E&sig=yMVGxzXlVY2F6khDyi267GHsmQQ&hl=en&ei=je6RSZHHGI-X_gba-qW9DA&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=2&ct=result

CIRCUS
www.worldcircus.org/WorldCircus/WorldCircus.html
also see Bouvet, Cloghoppers and more along these pages. Be surprised.
Cirqule, a school founded by Yvette & Gérard CHALLANDE, now run by son Patrick KRALL.
http://www.ecoledecirque-ge.ch

CLOGHOPPERS
http://www.cloghoppers.com

CM & P
Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry
Harvard-based revue of cultural psychiatry.
http://www.ovid.com/site/catalog/Journal/1405.jsp

COLUCCI, Erminia
Cultural psychiatrist with whom I am organizing a symposium for the WACP’s 2^nd congress in Italy this coming September.
http://www.uq.edu.au/uqresearchers/researcher/coluccie1.html

COSMETIC
This billions-a-year market supports some to say that cosmetic culture is wonderful and all plastic surgery is OK.
In case you disagree, here is useful evidence:
http://www.awfulplasticsurgery.com
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_modification

CPR
Centre for Performance Research
www.thecpr.org.uk

CULTURAL PSYCHIATRY
http://psychiatryandculture.org/cms
http://www.waculturalpsychiatry.org
http://www.wacp2009congress.org
http://www.wpa-tps.org

DA PIEVE Milva
Microsoft suite teacher, Geneva Switzerland.

DAVIS, Quint
Founder of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival with George WIEN
www.nojazzfest.com

DECROUX, Etienne
Also see Thomas LEABHART and the Mime Journal.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etienne_Decroux

DELACHAUX, Jonathan
Multimedia artist, Geneva.
http://www.jonathandelachaux.com

DEVEREUX, Georges
Hungarian psychoanalyst and ethnologist, the father of complementarist ethnopsychoanalysis.
Worked with the Hmong of SE Asia and the Mohave of SW North America.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Devereux
His active academic heir, Tobie NATHAN, in Paris.
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobie_Nathan

DOMINICÉ-DAO, Melissa
MD, who also trained in cultural psychiatry, at McGill, Montreal. Ethnological experience in Vietnam.
Now responsible of the cross-cultural consultation at the Geneva University Hospital.
http://www.unifr.ch/ipg/sitecrt/ARIC/Publications/Bulletin/No45/004.pdf
http://fampra.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/24/2/145
http://ww1.cpa-apc.org:8080/Publications/Archives/CJP/2004/october/kirmayer.asp

Denis DUARTE
Musician as a solo artist and with the Nau de Ícaros group, in São Paulo.
http://www.denisduarte.com.br

EALES, Mic
Visual artist in Australia.
http://discover.scu.edu.au/2008/issue11/index.php/5

EASY DOOR
Rock group in Geneva, with singer Iris PASANDIN
http://www.myspace.com/easydoornet
http://www.emusic.com/album/Easydoor-Spiral-MP3-Download/11355767.html

ECKENBERGER, Reinaldo
Multimedia artist and provocateur from Argentina, a long time resident in Salvador, Brazil.
www.art-cru.com/musee/eckenberger.html

EISENSTEIN, Sergei
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Eisenstein
http://www.carleton.edu/curricular/MEDA/classes/media110/Severson/eisenste.htm
http://archive.sensesofcinema.com/contents/directors/04/eisenstein.html

ESKEW, Allen
New Orleans architect.
www.studioedr.com

FARQUET Karin & Jean-Luc
Karen organizes a Open Studio event for visual arts, once every three years in Geneva and area; Jean-Luc is a comedian and an visual artist.
http://www.apo-geneve.ch
http://www.scenesmagazine.com/spip.php?article808

FÉRAL, Josette
Theater scholar and teacher at the University of Québec in Montreal (UQAM).
A prolific writer who documents the methods and training of directors and actors. Also an ISTA collaborator.
http://www.josette-feral.org

FONTANA, Laurent Dominique
Sculptor in Geneva.
http://www.sculpture.ch
http://www.sculpture.ch/agenda-expositions-concours.htm

FOOTSBARN TRAVELING THEATRE
Among the co-founders, Paddy HAYTER & Joe CUNNIGHAM are still here.
Other co-founders include the brothers David and Steve JOHNSTON,
Margarete BIEREYE who founded Ton und Kirschen with David in Germany
and Pureza LEITE who founded Teatro ao Largo with Steve in Portugal.
www.footsbarn.com 
http://www.tonundkirschen.de
http://www.teatroaolargo.com

FOWLEY Jr. Douglas
Irish-American actor and director, Geneva. A voice specialist.
http://www.douglasfowleyjr.com
When there’s a Jr., you wonder who the Sr. is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Fowley

FRASCAROLO, Armand
Italian painter, in Geneva
http://armandfrascarolo.blog.tdg.ch/album/portrait

FREEDMAN, David
Founder and director of WWOZ radio station, New Orleans
www.wwoz.org

GALPÓN
Theater founded and directed by Gabriel ALVAREZ, Geneva
www.galpon.ch

GILBERT, Jan
Multimedia artist and performer, New Orleans
www.jangilbertart.com
Gilbert and collaborators founded the Vestiges Project:
http://thevestigesproject.org

GILLIET, Nicolas
Founder and director of the Ascona New Orleans Jazz Festival, Ticino, Switzerland.
www.jazzascona.com

GROTOWKI, Jerzy
www.grotcenter.art.pl

GUANELLA, Claire
Visual artist in Geneva.
http://www.claireguanella.ch

GUERRA, Tonino
Multimedia artist, poet and writer for Fellini, Antonioni and others.
http://www.toninoguerra.org

HEALTH
http://www.realage.com/index.aspx
http://fatcheck.org

HELL’S KITCHEN
Wild blues trio, Geneva.
http://www.darksite.ch/hells-kitchen/homefr.html

HERE, THERE and EVERYWHERE
Ongoing project about Anticipating the Art in the Future,
in which participants are invited to show collaborations between artists and other professionals.
http://www.transculturalexchange.org/herethere/rules.htm
http://boston.craigslist.org/gbs/eve/1022494382.html

HUGUET-MANOUKIAN, Jocelyne
Ethno-psychologist in Lyon, France.
http://www.118218.fr/pro/psychologue%20Lyon/Huguet-Manoukian/ODma+YfFGA2m1w==/L3RvdXNMZXNQcm9zL0x5b24vcHN5Y2hvbG9ndWUvODA=

HUSLER, Christian
Visual artist, Geneva
http://www.visarte-geneve.ch/gallerie/huslerchristian/huslerchristian.html

HWANG, Marc
Professional dancer who was a soloist for Mats EK and Maurice BEJART; also trained as a specialist in Thai massage.
http://www.olza.com/produktionen/f-olza-2000-mi.htm
http://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/images/B0000687DZ/ref=dp_image_0/188-2485658-6616122?ie=UTF8&n=917972&s=dvd

IMAGE & ATMOSPHERES
Benoit LANGE, Indian and other SE Asian art and furniture.
http://www.benoit-lange.ch/index.html

INDIA
On performing arts. Also see Sujatha VENKATESH and the cousins MISHRA in Benares.
http://www.artindia.net/bharata.html
http://www.chandrakantha.com/articles/indian_music/kathak.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathak
http://www.kanakasabha.com/sapta/bnatyam.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathakali
With a grain of salt
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxOawp_X1VM&feature=PlayList&p=C38961B8F41F7460&playnext=1&index=8
Cooking
http://www.recipegal.com/indian

INUIT artists
Sites communicated by Jessica ARPIN who spent time on location and has an ongoing collaboration with Inuit artists.
www.artcirq.org 
www.isuma.ca/home# 
http://www.isuma.tv

ISTA
International School of Theater Anthropology. See Eugenio BARBA.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_School_of_Theatre_Anthropology
http://www.odinteatret.dk/events/sevilla/sevilla.htm
http://blog.baliwww.com/tag/international-school-of-theatre-anthropology

I LOVE BURLESK
NaNa DIVINA and her wacky crowd.
http://www.iloveburlesk.org

JAPAN
General issues
http://japan-guide.com
http://art-and-archaeology.com/japan/japan.html
If you are interested in performing arts, see SUGAWARA Keiko for traditional dance (Nihon buyô)
and Kabuki and KANO Koichi for jiuta-mai and Nô writings; MIYASAKA Keizo for Butô.
http://www.nihonbuyou.or.jp/english/nihonbuyo.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noh
http://www.nohmask21.com
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabuki
http://www.nihonbuyou.or.jp/english/nihonbuyo.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butoh
http://video.google.com/videosearch?hl=en&q=butoh&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=k5CeSfruFYmb_gaZrIDaCw&sa=X&oi=video_result_group&resnum=8&ct=title#
Japanese cinema, see with Lucas ARPIN, NIFFF programmation:
http://www.asianfilm.org
http://www.filmsasia.net
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kihachi_Okamoto
http://www.midnighteye.com/features/kihachi_okamoto.shtml
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akira_Kurosawa
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1STFM39vJ4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roCxj7777gs&feature=related
http://www.asian-horror-movies.com
http://www.fjmovie.com/horror

JAZZ & HERITAGE FESTIVAL
New Orleans: a yearly manifestation founded in 1970, by Quint DAVIS and George WIEN.
www.nojazzfest.com
www.wwoz.org/new+orleans+community/jazz+fest

JONES, Carwood “Woody”
Visual folk artist, living in Georgia, USA. Mechanical amusements
www.naia-artists.org/work/newboard.htm

JOURNALS
Publishers
http://www.mitpressjournals.org/toc/dram/51/2
http://tps.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/40/3/299

KANO, Koichi (KANZAKI Hideichi)
Traditional Japanese dancer specialized in Jiuta-mai, as an onnagata, actor doing female parts;
scholar who researched and wrote about Noh Theater; teaches Japanese language at the University of Geneva.
http://www.nihonbuyou.or.jp/english/nihonbuyo.htm

KIRMAYER, Laurence
Director of the Department of Cultural Psychiatry, McGill University, Montreal; chief-editor of Transcultural Psychiatry.
http://www.mcgill.ca/tcpsych
http://www.mcgill.ca/tcpsych/training/summer
http://ap.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/abstract/32/4/320
http://tps.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/43/1/126

KOWALEWICZ, Kasimierz
Sociologist and theater scholar, Poland
http://www.eksoc.uni.lodz.pl/is/kowalewicz.html

LA CHINA, Ana
Flamenca dancer. Also see collaboration with Ravi Shankar MISHRA  and producer Astrid STIERLIN, From Benares to Jerez:
http://www.adem.ch/analachina/home.html
http://www.ballet.co.uk/magazines/yr_02/sep02/rj_rev_flamenco_khatak_1101.htm

LAUGHTER
The king (who wanted to kill his jester):
You are so clever. You certainly know when you are going to die.
The buffoon: … three days before your Majesty.
http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/buffoon
http://www.comedycentral.com
British, American, and you go hunt for more … with a grain of salt.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Python
http://www.fawltysite.net

LEABHART, Thomas
Mime and actor, disciple of Etienne Decroux and heir of this tradition. Chief-editor of The Mime Journal and ISTA collaborator.
www.theater.pomona.edu/mime/index.html

LOUISIANA MUSIC FACTORY
Managed by Barry SMITH and Linda ABBOTT. Whole Louisiana music store.
www.louisianamusicfactory.com

LOUP, THEATRE & FANFARE DU
Amazing group of actors and musicians, in Geneva. Contact with co-founder Sandro ROSSETTI,
comedian and double-bass player and architect.
http://www.theatreduloup.ch
http://www.fanfareduloup.ch

LU, Francis
Chinese-American cultural psychiatrist at UCLA, Los Angeles; among his generous involvements,
Francis got interested in methods of narration in cinema.
http://www.francislumd.com
http://www.francislumd.com/publications/IkiruJTP2006.pdf

MAMA ROSIN
Cajun music inspired group in Geneva.
http://www.voodoorhythm.com/MAMA%20ROSIN.html
http://www.soundflat.de/shop/shop.cfm?artnr=12413

MANICOMICS
Hilarious Italian clowns, friends of Teatro SUNIL.
http://www.manicomics.com

MARIN, José
Peruvian ethnologist, Geneva; works in Europe and South America.
http://www.archipress.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3&Itemid=1

MASTRANGELO, Pierre
Instrument maker (instruments of the quatuor), Lausanne, Switzerland
http://www.violon.ch

MATTEI-GENTILI, Luigi and Fiorenza PARTISANI
Distinguished citizens of Pennabilli, Pesaro e Urbino, NE Italy, actively concerned with the regional artistic patrimony.
Pennabilli also is the residence of Tonino GUERRA.

McCAFFREY, Kevin
Writer, documentary film-maker from Florida, who lives and works in New Orleans.
Author of The New Orleans Jazz Festival (The incomplete, year-by-year, selectively quirky, prime facts edition of the history of),
edited by e/prime publications. Produced documentaries about food and tradition in New Orleans (The Galatoire restaurant),
and Louisiana (Cajun food traditions) with film-maker and cameraman Neil Alexander. Last but not least,
KMC is Jan GILBERT’s husband.
www.eprimemedia.com

McGILL UNIVERSITY
Where I studied during my medical training and went back years afterwards as a collaborator of Transcultural Psychiatry.
www.mcgill.ca

MEDICINE
http://www.amge.ch/index.php
http://fmh.ch/ww/fr/pub/welcome.htm
http://www.psychiatrie.ch
http://www.aerztekasse.ch/fr/news.cfm
http://tarmedsuisse.ch/ueber_uns.html?&L=1
http://wpanet.org
http://psych.org

MÉNESTRIER, Yves
Producer and manager for rock groups and ultimately for television,
this collector and expert will soon issue an encyclopaedia which will be available online. Lives in Geneva.
http://www.tsr.ch/tsr/index.html?siteSect=605000&sid=4313261&cKey=1067437214000

MEYERHOLD, Vsevolod
www.meyerhold.org
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meyerhold
http://web.syr.edu/~kjbaum/meyerholdsbiomechanics.html
http://taliatheatre.co.uk/biomechanics.html

MILLNER, Michèle
Chilean and Australian actress, singer and drama teacher; co-founder of Théâtre Spirale with Patrick MOHR.
Produced plays about Frida KAHLO and Violetta PARRA; performs with saxophonist Yves CERF (also see Fanfare du Loup).
Played with Douglas FOWLEY Jr. and Yvan Rihs’s stage adaptations of Dickens.
http://www.theatrespirale.com/Pages/Collaborateurs/MMillner.htm
http://www.zabirrr.net/spip.php?article17

MISHRA, Ravi Shankar & Mata Prasad
Indian traditional dancers specialized in the Kathak dance form from Northern India, Benares, Uttar Pradesh.
Both belong to an expanded family of traditional musicians.
www.chandrakantha.com/articles/Indian_music/Kathak.html
http://www.adem.ch/rsmishra/rshankarmishra.html
and Ravi with Ana LA CHINA and producer Astrid STIERLIN:
http://www.ballet.co.uk/magazines/yr_02/sep02/rj_rev_flamenco_khatak_1101.htm

MYIASAKA, Keizo
Japanese cultural anthropologist, professor at Keio University, Tokyo, in the department of anthropology and image;
curator in charge of the Butoh archives, also at Keio University.
http://hijikata.art-c.keio.ac.jp
http://www.butoh.net

MONTANDON, Denys
Plastic and reconstructive surgery specialist, teacher, and active in the field for children suffering from NOMA.
http://www.fdiworldental.org/public_health/assets/2006_07_Noma_Contact_English.pdf

MOSAIC
Multicultural, multiconfessional and bilingual (English-French) school for children in pre-school age, in Geneva.
Founded and managed by Sylvie JOHANNOT.
http://www.ecolemosaic.ch

MUSIC
http://www.e-officedirect.com/FLStudio
http://www.q4music.com
http://www.mojo4music.com/blog
http://guitartabs.net
http://top100tabsites.com
http://www.e-chords.
http://arhoolie.com
http://rockhall.com

MUTRUX, Pado
Sculptor  in Geneva.
http://www.pado-mutrux.ch

NAPOLI, Jana
Visual artist and multimedia, New Orleans. Founder of YA/YA, a teaching program for young artists from difficult quarters,
an experience that started in 1988 and still continues today.
http://www.jananapoli.com
www.yayainc.com
http://www.floodwall.org/exhibitions.html

NAU DE ÍCAROS
Theater and circus trained company of artists, in São Paulo.
www.naudeicaros.com.br

NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA (NOLA)
www.nola.com
Various sites around music and heritage
http://www.wwoz.org
http://www.nojazzfest.com
http://music.msn.com/music/neworleansjazz
http://www.live365.com/stations/poboy
http://zydecoroad.com
http://louisianamusicfactory.com
http://www.rockandbowl.com/storePAGE/storePAGE/rocknbowlSTORE2.html
http://offbeat.com
Tulane University
http://tulane.edu

NOCCA (New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts)
http://www.nocca.com
Cooking
http://www.neworleanscooking.com
http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com
http://www.houseonbayouroad.com
http://www.greatcajuncooking.com/recipes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lafayette,_Louisiana

NIFFF
Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival.
http://www.nifff.ch

NOVICOV, Andrea
Innovative theater director, Geneva and more.
www.theatre-contemporain.net/met-andrea-novicov-1040.html
http://www.theatregerardphilipe.com/old/programme/maison-bernarda.html

ODIN TEATRET
Founded by Eugenio BARBA, at the time of his early work with Jerzy GROTOWSKI.
The Odin is altogether venue and center for the study of experimental theater,
where Barba and his collaborators run seminars (The Odin Week) and other workshops.
www.odinteatret.dk

OKASAKI, Arthur
Japanese and Hawaiian born visual artist and photographer who lives in New Orleans where he  has been teaching, at Tulane University.
http://www.neworleansphotoalliance.org/member.php?id=200

PANIGRAHI, Sanjukta & Ragunath
Dance and music masters from Orissa, India. Sanjukta, a co-founder of ISTA, with Eugenio BARBA,
was a founder of the Odissi dance form tradition; husband Ragunath, a composer,
singer and harmonium player has also contributed research with ISTA.
http://www.rediff.com/news/jun/24sanju3.htm
http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Sanjukta_Panigrahi
http://books.google.com/books?id=31WqQLGeXRIC&pg=PA21&dq=sanjukta+panigrahi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qfFzBQ887g

PARAVENTO, Teatro
Founded and directed by David Matthäus ZURBUCHEN and Miguel Angel CIENFUEGO, in Locarno, Switzerland.
Paravento keeps alive the Commedia Dell’Arte tradition,
exploring a repertory that they regularly perform both in local venues in Ticino and on tour.
They also collaborate with the Kyogen Theatre, in Tokyo, Japan.
www.teatro-paravento.ch  

PARFUMERIE, La
Theater center in Geneva.
http://www.laparfumerie.ch/@/index.php?page=historique

PASTERNAK, Michael
Teacher in performing arts at Geneva’s International School.
http://www.ista.co.uk/whats-on-offer/publications/whats-the-issue

PAVIS, Patrice
Theater semeiologist, Paris.
http://www.theatre.indiana.edu/guests/bio/pavis.html
http://www.kent.ac.uk/sdfva/drama/staff/p_pavis.html

PEARSON, Mike
Welsh co-founder of CPR and a specialist in theatre archaeology
http://books.google.com/books?id=_YPTVFnwLv0C&printsec=frontcover&dq=mike+pearson#PPA1958,M1
http://books.google.com/books?id=GmqFAAAAIAAJ&q=mike+pearson&dq=mike+pearson&pgis=1

PERFUMES – TRADITIONS & ARTISANS
A long-time hobby, making my own perfumes with scents, mysteries and intimacies.
New Orleans
http://www.neworleansperfume.com
http://hoveparfumeur.com
…and more
http://nematinternational.com
http://hamptonct.com
http://internet.boticario.com.br/portal/site/internetpt

PHELAN, Peggy
American feminist scholar, a co-founder of Performance Studies international (Psi).
http://english.stanford.edu/bio.php?name_id=244
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peggy_Phelan
http://books.google.com/books?as_auth=Peggy+Phelan&source=an&ei=wC6cSeiVGIaS_gbNiuGgBQ&sa=X&oi=book_group&resnum=4&ct=title&cad=author-navigational

POLITICS
These sites were brought to my attention in times of Republican tyranny,
by my friend and colleague Robert LEON and his wife Lee, both keen Democrats.
http://moveon.org
http://www.truthout.org
http://lonestaricon.com

PORRAS, Omar
Innovative theater director, from Colombia, who started in a squat in Geneva with a production of Dürenmatt’s The Visit of the Old Lady;
emphasis on the actor’s work with masks.
www.malandro.ch

PR
Performance Research, a theater and performance journal elaborated and published by the CPR (Centre for Performance Research),
Aberywstwyth, Wales, UK.
www.thecpr.org.uk

PSi
Performance Studies international
Founded by Richard SCHECHNER and Peggy PHELAN.
www.psi-web.org

RADIO
Get here and then, you’ll just never stop finding exciting stations to listen to, while working or browsing.
http://www.live365.com

RAJENDRA, Niruprama & Rajendra
Baratha natyam and kathak dancers, whom Sujatha VENKATESH invited to perform and run workshops in Geneva.
http://video.webindia123.com/dance/kathak/introduction/index.htm
http://www.narthaki.com/info/prv08/prv182.html

RECHTMANN, Richard
Cultural psychiatrist and chief-editor of L’Evolution Psychiatrique, Paris.
http://psydoc-fr.broca.inserm.fr/bibliothq/revues/EvolPsy/EvolpsyCR.html    
http://library.georgetown.edu/newjour/e/msg03212.html
http://editions.flammarion.com/Peoples_Detail.cfm?ID=108888&levelCode=sciences

REYMOND, Patrick, aka DEYRMON
Visual artist, Geneva
http://www.espacemattom.com/site_espace_mattom/Bienvenue.html
http://www.salamandre.net

ROBERT, Marcel
Theater director, a pioneer of experimental theater in Geneva, and the one who introduced Balinese shadow puppet theater, wayang kulit
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayang_Kulit

ROBERTS, Steve
English-born luthier (instrument-maker) in Geneva.
http://www.flying-v.ch/roberts/index.html
Also works at:
http://www.servette-music.ch

ROCHAT, Charles Henry
Urologist and surgeon in Geneva, involved in humanitarian projects abroad.
http://www.gfmer.ch/Medical_education_En/Rochat.html

ROCK’N’BOWL
One of the many hot places for music in New Orleans, John BLANCHER, manager.
www.rockandbowl.com

ROLLE, Pierre-Alain
Puppeteer, Switzerland
http://www.theater.ch/leguignolaroulettes
http://www.guignol.ch/guignols/presse.pdf

ROOSE-EVANS, James
Author of Experimental Theatre, from Stanislavski to Peter Brook) at Routledge, London.
A must for an excellent survey of this period.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Roose-Evans

ROUSSEAU, Cécile
Cultural psychiatrist and visual artist at McGill, Montreal.
http://www.mcgill.ca/trauma-globalhealth/people/canada/rousseau

Michel ROSSY
Actor and director, Geneva.
http://www.comedien.ch/f/633/fiche_comedien.php

RUCKERT, Felix
Former Pina BAUSCH collaborator. Came to Geneva’s La Bâtie with an exciting project called Hautnah (Skin near, literally).
www.felixruckert.de

SALOMON, Roberto & Naara
Theater director and teacher from El Salvador. His wife Naara SALOMON is a comedienne.
Both have collaborated in productions of  Eugene O’Neill and Tennessee Williams,
and in an exciting version of Roald Dahl’s The Twits (Les deux gredins), with Vincent AUBERT and Jessica ARPIN.
http://www.comedien.ch/f/2447/fiche_comedien.php
www.regart.ch/amstramgram/presse.asp
www.amstramgram.ch/saison/les_deux_gredins.html

SAT
Studio d’Action Théâtrale.
Also see Gabriel ALVAREZ.
http://www.studioactiontheatrale.ch/2006-presse.html
http://www.studioactiontheatrale.ch/not-002.html

SCHECHNER, Richard
Theater researcher and director with the Company of Actors. See his numerous writings below:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Schechner
http://books.google.com/books?as_auth=Richard+Schechner&source=an&ei=cvmRSdjjI4-N_gavs8W5DA&sa=X&oi=book_group&resnum=4&ct=title&cad=author-navigational

SCHMIDT-PAINI, Frédéric & Valérie
Artisans and artists who live and work in Valais, Switzerland.
Valérie is a jeweler and a born decorator; Fredéric is a carpenter and does work with leather.
Both are specialist in Celtic and North American Native folk art forms.

SHERMAN, Cindy
www.cindysherman.com

SLIDERS
Slide guitars, dobros, lapsteels, et al.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_McDowell
http://sonnylandreth.com/sonnyframes.html
http://sonnylandrethfan.com
http://www.ryland-cooder.com
http://www.rylanders.free-online.co.uk
http://www.cindycashdollar.com/tunings
http://www.bonnieraitt.com
http://www.bottleneckguitar.com
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dobro
http://www.well.com/user/wellvis/steel.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred_Steel_(musical_tradition)   
http://www.weissenborn.es

SOEGENG, Mas
Indonesian dancer and actor, who worked in Bali and specialized in the area’s genres,
Barris, Topéng, using masks that he himself carves.
http://footsbarn.com/en/people.php?pid=2
http://www.dvbs.eu.org/video/hcT1ipOMs40/Mas-Soegeng-BALI-MASK.html

SSPC
Society for the Study of Psychiatry and Culture.
www.psychiatryandculture.org

STANISLAVSKI, Constantin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konstantin_Stanislavski

STIERLIN Astrid
Producer of From Benares to Jerez, the kathak-meets-flamenco creation with Ravi Shankar MISHRA and Ana LA CHINA.
A collaborator at ADEM’s.
http://www.ballet.co.uk/magazines/yr_02/sep02/rj_rev_flamenco_khatak_1101.htm

STIERNET, Clarence
Visual and multimedia artist, Geneva
http://www.apo-geneve.ch/index.php?id=56&type=0&uid=457&cHash=e3fcd883b1
http://profiles.yahoo.com/clarence.stiernet

STORY-TELLING
Information and links communicated by Mônica ARPIN, who has participated in story-telling festivals and
has been regularly telling to children in Genevan schools.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storytelling
http://www.storycenter.org/index1.html
http://www.timsheppard.co.uk/story
http://www.conteur.com

SUGAWARA, Keiko
Japanese dance master, specialized in Nihon Buyo (traditional Japanese dance) and Kabuki dance theater.
She is the founder and director of Geneva Traditional Japanese Dance; regularly tours as a performer.
Co-teacher at the school, dancer Kiwano MEYER KODERA. KANO Koichi also mentors, teaches and performs.
www.dansejaponaise.com
http://www.nihonbuyou.or.jp/english/nihonbuyo.htm

SUNIL, Teatro
Located in Ticino, the Italian-speaking part of Switzerland, this group was founded by Daniele FINZI PASCA and actress
musician and composer Maria BONZANICO, later joined by Ugo GARGIULO from Uruguay and Antonio VERGAMINI, from Italy.
http://www.teatrosunil.com
Daniele also directs at Cirque Eloize. Maria composes the music score.
http://www.cirque-eloize.com

TAILLEBOIS, Pierre-Yves
Comedian, director and puppeteer, Geneva
http://www.comedien.ch/f/693/fiche_comedien.php

TDR (THE DRAMA REVIEW)
Edited by Richard SCHECHNER and collaborators such as Augusto BOAL and Eugenio BARBA
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/the_drama_review

TEATRO AO LARGO
Founded by Steve JOHNSTON & Pureza LEITE, previously co-founders of the Footsbarn Traveling Theatre.
http://www.teatroaolargo.com

THEATRE in Geneva
http://www.comedien.ch

THEATRE IN ENGLISH
Geneva’s English-speaking amateur groups.
www.theatreinenglish.ch

TIERRA INCOGNITA
Latin American cultural center in Geneva.
http://www.tierra-incognita.ch

TP
Transcultural Psychiatry. Journal.
http://tps.sagepub.com

TRAUNER, Alexander
www.lpce.com/trauner/us/index.html

TRUKITREK
http://www.manicomics.com

TS of WPA
Transcultural Section of the World Psychiatry Association
http://www.wpa-tps.org

TRAMONTANO, Karen
A personal advisor of Bill CLINTON during his second round of office.
http://www.dutkoworldwide.com/professionals/karen_tramontano
http://www.muckety.com/Karen-A-Tramontano/86303.muckety

TROPICALISMO
Artistic and political movement started by the end of the 1960s.
Two of he persons listed below were exiled by the military government.
http://www.mariabethania.com.br
http://www.galcosta.com.br
http://www.gilbertogil.com.br
http://www.caetanoveloso.com.br

TSENG, Wen-Shing
A founder of cultural psychiatry and the author of indispensable textbooks that generously cover all the fields of anthropology and psychiatry.
Handbook of cultural psychiatry. London, New York: Academic press. 2001
Clinicians guide to cultural psychiatry. London, New York : Academic press. 2003.
http://jabsom.hawaii.edu/JABSOM/faculty/bio.php?facultyid=362

TULANE UNIVERSITY
Also see NOLA
http://tulane.edu
 

UFBa
Universidade Federal da Bahia
http://www.portal.ufba.br

VACHOUX, Pascale
Comedienne, Geneva.
http://www.comedien.ch/f/722/fiche_comedien.php

VAKHTANGOV, Evgeny
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vakhtangov_Theatre

VARISCO, Michel Ms
Photographer in New Orleans, and wife of Allen ESKEW.
http://michelvarisco.com

VENKATESH, Sujatha
Indian traditional dance master from Bangalore, Karnakata.
Specialized in Bharata Natyam, she lives and work in Geneva where she teaches at her studio and in schools.
She also regularly tours alone or with partners.
Sujatha Venkatesh also works with me at the consultation of cultural psychiatry.
www.omkara-dance.com
http://southasianwomen.typepad.com/sawlf/2005/11/dancers_dream_s.html

VERGER, Pierre
Ethnologist and specialist of African culture in Bahia. Also see Candomblé and Roger BASTIDE.
www.pierreverger.org/en/index.htm 
http://schwarze-goetter-im-exil.de/eng/verger/index.html

VERRI, Elena
Polyvalent and funny artist, now living in Italy.
www.elena-verri.ch 

WACP
World Association of Cultural Psychiatry
http://www.waculturalpsychiatry.org
http://www.wacp2009congress.org

WATERLOW, Caroline
Visual artist and dancer, who also work in therapeutic projects, in Bath, UK.
http://carolinewaterlow.co.uk

George WIEN
Among others, founder of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Wein

WIDMOSER, Alfred
Founder and director of the Drum & Percussion Center, Geneva
http://www.drum.ch

WINES
The wine makers from Valais, Switzerland
http://www.lesvinsduvalais.ch/fr/producteurs/index.php?idIndex=116

An artisan with graceful, poetic approaches:

Christophe ABBET in Valais, Switzerland:
http://en.wordpress.com/tag/christophe-abbet

A tradition from father Rémy BESSE,
Florian BESSE and Marie
http://www.vinbesse.ch/home.php?r=1&width=1680

Jean-Daniel MINOIA and Alice
The wines and the voice : JD is a lyrical bass singer in various operetta groups.
http://www.vernayaz.ch/vivre/culture/bellehelene/distribution
http://www.chanter.ch/web/diapason/diapason53web.pdf

The wine makers from Geneva, Switzerland
http://www.opage.ch/lesvinsdegeneve/default.html
http://www.cavedegeneve.ch/run?iset=1051&refpage=19832

The wine makers from Ticino, Switzerland
https://www.vignobles-online.ch/savoir/suisse/tessin/ti_general.html
http://www.schubiweine.ch/wein_detail-k10-i5511-schweiz-ti-shop.html

WPA
World Psychiatric Association
www.wpanet.org