THEATRUM MUNDI

     Volterra 1981

     Blois-Malakoff 1985

     Holstebro 1986

     Salento 1987

     Bologna 1990

     Brecon-Cardiff 1992

     Londrina 1994

     Umeå 1995

     Copenhagen 1996

     Montemor-O-Novo 1998

     Bielefeld 2000

THEATRUM MUNDI
Bologna 1990

Excerpt of Taviani's text Theatrum Mundi : 
"...The "tradition of ISTA" is not stylistic, but behavioral, springing from the confidence that links companions in art, who have worked together intensively over a long period.
These characteristics were magnified in the Theatrum Mundi of July 15th 1990 in the San Martino cloister in Bologna. The performance opened with a couple crossing the darkened space, a young woman with flowing locks and a white dress, arm in arm with a venerable old man. They went and sat on a throne, isolated from the others, she European, he Asian, she as if half asleep, reborn into an unfamiliar world, he already distanced from life. The performance concluded with an explosion of fire-works, which left the cloister strewn with burnt-out cartridges and scattered bodies, like a battle field. And, like a fluorescent butterfly that lands without prejudice on the bodies of the defeated dead and the sleeping victors, high up in that cloister danced a goddess.
The last image was that of the goddess, whose immobile gesture said "do not be afraid", while a young woman, either in distress or exhaustion, held the empty head of Death to her chest, like a child to be fed. Between these two extremes there had been an alternation of grotesque and lyrical scenes, just like a carnival ritual that hides a secret message. Or like the news on tv, read by an intoxicated Silenus. Throughout the whole, a humble Asian woman had continued to sow useless seeds on the centuries old flagstones with the generous gesture of a peasant, methodically walking to and fro along inexistent furrows, while singing to herself as though the surrounding events did not concern her..."

BALI
I Made Pasek Tempo, dancer, musician
Desak Made Suarti Laksmi, dancer, musician
Ni Ketut Suryatini, dancer, musician
Ni Nyoman Candri, dancer, singer
I Wayan Rai, dancer, musician
I Nyoman Catra, dancer, musician
Tjokorda Raka Tisnu, dancer, musician
Ida Bagus Nyoman Mas, dancer, musician
Tjokorda Istri Putra Padmini, dancer
I Wayan Berata, dancer, musician

INDIA
Sanjukta Panigrahi, dancer, Odissi
Raghunath Panigrahi, singer, musician
Hemant Kumar Das, musician
Gangadar Pradhan, musician
Nityanand Mohapatra, musician

JAPAN
Kanho Azuma, dancer, Nihon Buyo
Kanichi Hanayagi, dancer, Nihon Buyo
Senkai Azuma, dancer, Nihon Buyo
Naobumi Kojima, musician
Tomiro Wakayama, singer, musician

ODIN TEATRET
Roberta Carreri, actor
Jan Ferslev, actor, musician
Julia Varley, actor
Torgeir Wethal, actor
Frans Winther, musician