Excerpt of Taviani's text Theatrum
Mundi:
"... A vital change happened during the Salento ISTA in 1987, where the Theatrum
Mundi took place in the courtyard and on the ramparts of the ancient castle of
Copertino. It was no longer the specific elements of the different traditions that were
recognisable, but rather the unitary tradition of ISTA. In it, the lines of the first
scene of Hamlet and the songs and the presence of the Odin actors merged with the
Balinese Barong, the mythical Japanese lion Shishi and the theatrical fragments of the
other Asian artists. Barba fused these scenes into a unitary framework, giving them the
rhythm and energy of a homogenous performance, something carnevalesque, funny and
ritualisitic..."
BALI: I Made Bandem, dancer, musician - I Made Pasek Tempo, dancer, musician - Swasthi
Widjaja Bandem, dancer - 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 - I Ketut Kodi, dancer, musician - Tjokorda Raka
Tisnu, dancer musician.
INDIA: Sanjukta Panigrahi, dancer,
Odissi - Raghunath Panigrahi, singer, musician - Hemant Kumar Das, musician
Mohini Mohan Patnik, musician - Gangadar Pradhan, musician
JAPAN: Katzuko Azuma, dancer, Nihon
Buyo - Haruchiho Azuma, dancer, Nihon Buyo - Kanichi Hanayagi, dancer, Nihon Buyo -
Shizuko Kineya, musician - Takae Koyama, musician, singer.
ODIN TEATRET: Lena Bjerregaard,
actor - César Brie, actor
Roberta Carreri, actor - Jan Ferslev, actor, musician - Richard Fowler, actor - Naira
Gonzales, actor - Iben Nagel Rasmussen, actor.
