INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE OCCASION OF ODIN TEATRET’S 60TH ANNIVERSARY
CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVES. THIRD THEATRE, ARCHIVES, DIRECTING
LECCE, 29—30 OCTOBER AND 4—7 NOVEMBER 2024
29 OCTOBER 2024
from 10 a.m.
The Conquest of Difference, by Erik Exe Christoffersen, Denmark 2011
Andersen’s Dream, by Claudio Coloberti, Denmark 2010
The Art of the Impossible, by Elsa Kvamme, Norway 2018
The Tree, by Davide Barletti and Jacopo Quadri, Italy 2021
30 OCTOBER 2024
from 10 a.m.
On the Two Shores of the River. The Story of Odin Teatret and People in a Foreign Country, by Torgeir Wethal, Denmark-Peru 1978
The Chronic Life, by Chiara Crupi, Denmark 2017
The Country Where Trees Fly, by Davide Barletti e Jacopo Quadri, Italy 2015
Theatrum Mundi in Copertino, by Giuliano Capani and Marc Van Put, Italy 1987
4 NOVEMBER 2024
SCHOOL QUINTO ENNIO – CESARE BATTISTI (SALA POLIFUNZIONALE)
10:00-11:00 | ODIN TEATRET IN THE FUTURE: The Thrilling Violinists | performance for children and grandparents, with Antonia Cioaza e Jakob Nielsen, directed by Sergio Bini Bustric
BIBLIOTECA BERNARDINI
11:30-13:00 | LIVING ARCHIVE FLOATING ISLANDS | Guided tour with Eugenio Barba. Opening of the installation “The Room of Memories” by Dina Abu Hamdan, which can be visited during the entire duration of the conference
SALA CONFERENZE RETTORATO
14:30-15:00 | INSTITUTIONAL GREETINGS
Fabio Pollice, Rector of the Università del Salento. Girolamo Fiorentino, Director of the Department of Cultural Heritage. Luigi De Luca, Director of Apulian Polo Biblio-Museale. Loredana Capone, President of Apulia Regional Council. Aldo Patruno, General Director of the Department of Tourism, Cultural Economy and Territorial Development of the Apulia Region
15:00-16:00 | FRANCO QUADRI PRIZE AWARDED TO EUGENIO BARBA with the projection of a film by Jacopo Quadri and Davide Barletti produced for the occasion
16:30-19:30 | PANEL 1
ODIN TEATRET. 60 YEARS IN A DAY
Chair: Francesco Ceraolo
Franco Perrelli, Università di Bari: Barba and Artaud
Lorenzo Mango, Università di Napoli L’Orientale: Director’s Dramaturgy. The Forms and Method
Marco De Marinis, Università di Bologna: “Contraria sunt complementa”: Grotowski & Barba
Raimondo Guarino, Università Roma Tre: Foundations, Nomadism, Lost Theatre. Third Theatre, Theatre Anthropology and Genealogies of the Future
5 NOVEMBER 2024
BIBLIOTECA BERNARDINI
9:00-12:00 | PANEL 2 Session A SALA DEI 500
ANTHROPOLOGY, THIRD THEA-TRE AND NEW KNOWLEDGE
Chair: Raimondo Guarino
Francesca Romana Rietti, LAFLIS, Samantha Marenzi, Università Roma Tre: Odin Teatret Expériences and “Lo straniero che danza”. Two Books, Two Cultures, Two Geographies
Mimma Valentino, Università di Napoli L’Orientale: Third Theatre and New Theatre: The Critical Debate between the 1970s and the 1980s
Patrizia Pertuso, Università di Milano Bicocca: Anthropology and Theatre. The Barter Yesterday and Today
Gabriele Sofia, Università Roma Tre: Theatre Anthropology and Cognitive Science. Genesis, Actuality, Future
Annalucia Cudazzo, Università del Salento: “What Remains of the Vertical Dimension”. Theatre Anthropology and Performance Studies, between Presence and Behaviour
Tiziana Leucci, Centre d’Etudes Sud-Asiatiques et Himalayennes Paris-Aubervilliers: The “Theatre” of Crossed Destinies: Odin Teatret, India, Anthropology and Theatre Nomadism
9:00-12:00 | PANEL 2 Session B SALA TEATRINO
ANTHROPOLOGY, THIRD THEA-TRE AND NEW KNOWLEDGE
Chair: Frank Camilleri
Jacques Arpin, Université de Genève: Clinical Dramaturgy. From Codified Body Learning to Human-Robot Interaction
Alice Williams, University of Sydney: Auto-Ethnographic Theatre Anthropology: Experience as a Form of Resistance
Connie Zhang, Theatre translator: Translating as a Fighter
Raffaella Di Tizio, Università Roma Tre: Between Aesthetical Approach to Theatre Studies and Theatre An-thropology: a Comparison between Ferdinando Taviani’s Hermeneutic Proposals and Hans-Thies Lehmann’s Postdramatic Theatre
Lorenzo Donati, Università di Bologna: The ‘Pre-Reflection’ of the Spectators Rethinking to “Lo straniero che danza”: Notes for an Investigation in the Present
Francesca D’Ippolito, Università del Salento: Third Theatre Practices in the Italian Performing Arts System. A Focus on Policies at the Dawn of the First 40 years of FUS (1985-2025)
12:30-13:30 | ODIN TEATRET IN THE PRESENT: Hamlet’s Clouds (English version), closed performance for conference participants, with Antonia Cioaza, Else Marie Laukvik, Jakob Nielsen, Rina Skeel, Ulrik Skeel, Julia Varley, directed by Eugenio Barba
14:30-15:30 | LEARNING IN A GROUP THEATRE: Patricia Ariza presents La Candelaria
15:30-18:00 | PANEL 3
SALA DEI 500
THIRD THEATRE. GENEALOGIES AND FUTURE PROSPECTS
Chair: Lorenzo Mango
Ian Watson, Rutgers University-Newark: A Barter for Tomorrow
Jane Turner, Independent scholar – Patrick Campbell, University of Manchester: In Praise of Earthquakes: Illegitimacy and Rupture in Third Theatre
Dario Tomasello, Università di Messina: Between Performance Studies and Theatre Anthropology: Points of Contact?
Gregorio Amicuzi, Laboratorio Internacional Residui Teatro, Emilio Genazzini, Abraxa Tea-tro, Marco Luciano, Teatro Nucleo, Luca Vo-nella, Teatro a Canone: Inside a Genealogy Crossing Bridges in the Third Theatre
Chris Torch, actor, director, project designer: Guerrillas, Princes and Princesses. The Art of Survival as Self-Managed Cultural Units
18:30-19:30 | PRINCIPLES AND VALUES: Julia Varley leads a dialogue between Patricia Ariza, Georges Bigot, Charles Henri Bradier, Eugenio Barba and Miguel Rubio on the particularities of group theatre
6 NOVEMBER 2024
BIBLIOTECA BERNARDINI
9:00-12:00 | PANEL 4 Session A SALA DEI 500
PERFORMANCE AND LIVING AR-CHIVES. METHODOLOGICAL PER-SPECTIVES AND CASE STUDIES
Chair: Simona Scattina
Arianna Frattali, Università di Milano La Statale: Odin Teatret’s “Open Dramaturgy”: The Performances of the Salento Years through Archive Sources
Valentina Valentini, Sapienza Università di Roma: Sciami e Varia: Performing Arts and Videoart Hypothesis and Verification
Maria Giovanna Mancini, Università di Bari, Francesca Zanella, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia: Performing Arts Archives. Time-based Arts Archives in Exhibition: Critical Issues
Desirèe Sabatini, Università Link Campus: Identity and Authenticity of the Digital Theatre Object in Digital Collections: IPAD Italian Archive of Performance in Digital. Mapping and Dissemination of the Iconographic and Audiovisual Heritage of Italian Media Performance: Giacomo’s Archive
Aldo Roma, Sapienza Università di Roma: Performing Arts Archives between Archivistics and Theatrology: Morphologies, Problems, Overlaps
Roberto Pellerey, Università di Genova: Living Archives and Stuffed Archives: from Museum to Theatre
9:00-12:00 | PANEL 4 Session B SALA TEATRINO
PERFORMANCE AND LIVING AR-CHIVES. METHODOLOGICAL PER-SPECTIVES AND CASE STUDIES
Chair: Marco De Marinis
Jean-Marie Pradier, Université Paris 8: Under the Archives: Some Turning Points in Life
Nathalie Gauthard, Université D’Artois: The Creation of a Living Heritage: Odin Teatret to the Test of Time, Trace and Memory
Selene D’Agostino, Université D’Artois: Archives as an Ethnographic Field: Transit Festival as an Agora of Archives
Manuela Filomena Ottaviani, Université D’Artois: Can an Archive be Living? How Philosophical Practice Can Help Us Think about What Has Yet to be Realised in LAFLIS
Monica Cristini, Università di Verona: The Chance of an Encounter: La MaMa and Odin Training in the United States
Bianca Mastrominico, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh: A Zoom Encounter with Odin Teatret: Embodied Practice and Living Archives in the Digital Performance Laboratory of Flanker Origami
12:30-13:30 | ODIN TEATRET IN THE PAST: Compassion (Italian version), a performance that keeps extinct performances alive, with Julia Varley, directed by Eugenio Barba
14:30-15:30 | LEARNING IN A GROUP THEATRE: Miguel Rubio presents Yuyachkani
15:30-18:00 | PANEL 5
SALA DEI 500
FLOATING ISLANDS ARCHIVES. PRIN 2022 PNRR
Chair: Francesco Ceraolo
Simona Scattina, Università di Catania: “A Means to Live Otherwise”. Testimonies of the Catania Barter Between Opera dei Pupi and Odin Teatret
Simone Dragone, Università del Salento: Echoes of Third Theatre and Group Theatre in Apulia. A Mapping
Doriana Giudice, Università di Catania: Echoes of Third Theatre and Group Theatre in Sicily. A Mapping
Simona Turturro, Università del Salento: The Magdalena Project at the De-but: the Third Theatre from the Female Point of View
Brizia Minerva, Archivio Carmelo Bene: Archiving the Absence. Memory and the Immemorial of Carmelo Bene
18:30-20:00 | PRINCIPLES AND VA-LUES: Women in Group Theatre with Patricia Ariza, Julia Varley, Else Marie Laukvik, Mattea Fo, Viviana Bovino
7 NOVEMBER 2024
BIBLIOTECA BERNARDINI
9:00-12:00 | PANEL 6 Session A SALA DEI 500
SCENIC PRACTICES AND AESTHE-TICS. THE PERFORMANCES OF ODIN TEATRET
Chair: Valentina Venturini
Leonardo Mancini, Università di Torino: Sources and Functions of Musical Dramaturgy in Odin Teatret’s Last Performances: from “The Chronic Life” (2011) to “Thebes at the Time of Yellow Fever” (2022)
Maria Chiara Provenzano, Università Telematica Pegaso: The Mother Scene. Silvia Ricciardelli: from the Archaeology of Absence to the Pedagogy of Presence
Chiara Crupi, Sapienza Università di Roma: The Audiovisual Editing of “The Chronic Life” between Documentation and Recreation
Salvatore Margiotta, Università di Napoli L’Orientale: Barba Director Outside the Odin: “An Ordinary Day of the Dancer Gregor Samsa”
Sarimé Álvarez, Universidad Iberoamericana de México: In between an Island and Firm Land. The Connections of Odin Teatret with Cuba and Mexi-co, and its Repercussions on the Life of an Emigrant and her Theatre Group
9:00-12:00 | PANEL 6 Session B SALA TEATRINO
SCENIC PRACTICES AND AESTHE-TICS. THE PERFORMANCES OF ODIN TEATRET
Chair: Annelis Kuhlmann
David Zinder, Tel Aviv University: The Evanescence of the Theatrical Event: Ephemerality, Archive, Imagination and the Constant Present
Adriana La Selva and Ioulia Marouda, Ghent University: Archi-Textures of Access: Virtual Translations of Embodied Knowledge in Theatre Training
Zofia Dworakowska, University of Warsaw: Modes of Inheritance. An example of Akademia Ruchu and Komuna Warszawa
Josephine Calvo, University of Malta: Odin Teatret’s Impact on Karate for Actor Training
Mary Mazzilli, University of Essex: Third Theatre as Theatre in the Community: Experiences and Testimonies of Migrant Communities Beyond the Binary Strangeness and Familiarity
12:30-13:30 | LEARNING IN A GROUP THEATRE: work demonstration “The Dead Brother” (English version) with Julia Varley, Odin Teatret
14:30-16:00 | LEARNING IN A GROUP THEATRE: Georges Bigot e Charles Henri Bradier present Théâtre du Soleil
16:00-19:00 | PANEL 7
SALA DEI 500
EVERY POSSIBLE LEGACY. ODIN TEATRET BETWEEN PAST, PRE-SENT AND FUTURE
Chair: Franco Perrelli
Ferruccio Marotti, Sapienza Università di Roma: Eugenio, the Odin Tradition and the Life that Goes On
Maria Shevtsova, Goldsmiths University of London: Odin Teatret and Stanislavsky’s Legacy in 1960s-1970s Collective Creativity
Kathrine Winkelhorn, Malmö University, Erik Exe Christoffersen, Aarhus University: Theatre Anthropology. Genesis, Cur-rent Events, Future
Frank Camilleri, University of Malta: Aesthetic Pacing: Taking a Cue from Eugenio Barba and Odin Teatret
Annelis Kuhlmann, Aarhus University, Adam Ledger, University of Birmingham: Roots in the Clouds: Temporality, the Director’s Non-Linear Historiographical Endings and New Beginnings
Lluís Masgrau, Institut del Teatre de Barcelona: The Conceptual Dramaturgy in the Written Work of E. Barba as a Starting Point to Approach the Idea of Third Theatre
Valentina Venturini, Università Roma Tre: Footsteps that Mark Paths. The Transformative Relations in Eugenio Barba’s Theatre
Giuseppe Amoruso, Politecnico di Milano: The Future of the Past. LAFLIS on the road
19:00- 20:00 | ITHE WORLD IS IN-COMPREHENSIBLE BUT EMBRA-CEABLE with Eugenio Barba