The Paper Canoe : A Guide to Theatre Anthropology - Eugenio Barba

The Paper Canoe

A Guide to Theatre Anthropology

By: Eugenio Barba

Paperback | 15 December 1994 | Edition Number 1

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Eugenio Barba, director, theorist and founder of the Odin Teatret, is today one of the major points of reference for contemporary experimental theater. In "The Paper Canoe"--translated here into English for the first time--Eugenio Barba explores the"pre-expressive" basis of "presence" effective on stage and how human beings behave "in a situation of organized representation."
An enormously exciting, beautifully written and very moving work, "The Paper Canoe" is a crucial document for the comprehension of late twentieth-century intercultural performance. It comprises a fascinating dialogue with such masters of theater as Stanislavski, Meyerhold, Craig, Copeau, Brecht, Artand and Decroux. It establishes beyond doubt the importance of Barba's practical and theoretical work for today's students and practitioners of performance.
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"Barba's writing and ideas... aleternate between arrogance and forced modesty, platitudes and obvious truisms, clarity of vision and obtuseness bordering on an almost unfathomable ambiguity.." -"Choice Barba's The Paper Canoe...is a passionate professional auto- biography...What emerges beyond the tenets of theatre anthropology is an aesthetic grounded in a lifetime of research.

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