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Eugenio Barba (Brindisi, 1936) Float theOdin Theater and he fits the «Third theater“, Which arose in the 70’s in the periphery of the great capitals of Europe and Latin America. This movement, apart from institutions and avant -garde, It focuses on the search for one’s roots. Its ornament is the collective creation and the non -hierarchical organization of work.

The playwright and theater researcher Eugenio Barba and his company Odin Teatret share with modernity the desire to delve into the depths and, at the same time, to explore what is distant. For the Nordic company, Both the interior of the body and the remote cultures constitute privileged territories of self -exploration.

Between the founding of the company, in 1964, and the creation of the International School of Theater Anthropology, in 1979, Barba indicates, through the manifesto of the “Third Theater”, the hundreds of groups that, during the 1970’s, operate on the outskirts of the large capitals. Are groups that work on the margin of former theaterrepresented in theatrical institutions, and of the secondflavored by the avant -garde. The foundation of the companies of the third theater It is the search for their own roots; Ornament, collective creation and non -hierarchical division of work.

Despite the Odin Teatret still active, The show travels through the activity between 1971 and 1979years in which he pointed out dissident forms that began in what Barba called the “collective self -care” and ended up taking the streets of Europe and Latin America.

For more information you can consult the exhibition website “ATTENTUALLY”

Last update: 03/17/2025