Negotiating cultures

Ian Watson is Deputy Chair of the Department of Visual and Performing Arts as well as Coordinator of the Theatre and Television Programs at Rutgers University-Newark

• List of platesList of figuresForeword - A handful of snow - Franc ChamberlainIntroduction - Contexting Barba - Ian WatsonISTA and theatre anthropology1. Staging theatre anthropology - Ian Watson2. Transcultural dialogue: Lecture/demonstrations at ISTA - Nicola Saverese3. Actor as refusenik: Semiotics, theatre anthropology, and the work of the body - Nigel Stewart4. Finding equilibrium in disequilibrium: the impact of ISTA on its Balinese participants - I Nyoman Catra and Ron Jenkins5. Odissi and the ISTA dance: an interview with Sanjukta Panigrahi - Ron Jenkins and Ian Watson6. Interculturalism and the individual performer: an interview with the Odin actress Roberta Carreri - Ian WatsonBarter: Performance as cultural exchange7. The dynamics of barter - Ian Watson8. Borders, barters and beads: in search of intercultural arcadia - Maria Shevtsova9. Theatre presence: sea lanes, Sardinia 1975 - Iben Nagel Rasmussen, Eugenio Barba, Tony D'Urso and Ferdinando Taviani10. Provocation anthropology: bartering performance in Africa - Mette Bovin11. Invisible cities: an interview with Pino Di Buduo - Ian WatsonLatin America and the third theatre12. Barba's other culture - Ian Watson13. The house with two doors - Eugenio Barba14. The third theatre: a legacy of independence - Ian Watson15. About islands and woods: notes on a journey to the Odin Teatret - Miguel RubioA dialogue with Eugenio Barba16. The conquest of difference: an electronic dialogue - Eugenio Barba and Ian WatsonList of contributorsIndex