Ascent to the Sea, Performance by Odin Teatret Ensemble
Video
A film following the street performance Anabasis in Peru. It was an itinerant performance, based on exploiting the connections between the actors and the spectators who they encounter on their way.
- 1980s
- Anabasis
- Ascent to the Sea
- CanDoCo
- Choreography
- DV8
- Else Marie Laukvik
- Eugenio Barba
- Francis Pardeilhan
- Iben Nagel Rasmussen
- Itinerant Performance
- Judson Dance Theater
- Julia Varley
- Kurt Jooss
- Martha Graham
- Modernism
- Morten Bruus-Pedersen
- Odin Teatret
- Odin Teatret Film
- Peru
- Physical Theatre
- Pina Bausch
- Political
- Postmodern Dance
- Production
- Roald Pay
- Roberta Carreri
- Silvia Ricciardelli
- Street Theatre
- Tage Larsen
- Tanztheater Wuppertal
- Tom Fjordefalk
- Toni Cots
- Torben Bjelke
- Torgeir Wethal
- Trisha Brown
- Ulrik Skeel
- Yvonne Rainer
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by Leo Sykes
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Eugenio Barba created Odin Teatret in Norway in 1964, having worked with Jerzy Grotowski for three years in Poland. Now based in Denmark, its members come from a dozen countries and three continents.
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Iben Nagel Rasmussen is an actor, director, teacher and writer born in Denmark. She has been a member of Odin Teatret since 1966 and conducts independent research as leader of ‘The Bridge of Winds’.
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Julia Varley joined Odin Teatret in 1976. An actor, director, teacher and writer, she is Artistic Director of the Transit Festival, and Editor of The Open Page, a journal of women’s work in theatre.