Excerpt of Taviani's text Theatrum
Mundi:
"...It was the follow-up of the Theatrum Mundi of Bologna leading up to the
nest one in Umeå, Sweden, in 1995. There the themes of the Indian Maya - the omnipresent
Great Illusion - and of the magic wisdom of Prospero finally materialise while from Hamlet
only the ghost of Ophelia appears in her madness turning the whole stage into a madhouse.
The entire performance appears to take the place on the bank of a river which flows past
beside the footlights.
The characters come here to lean over the imaginary water, to look at their reflection, to
quench their thirst, like gazelles or lions, or like the young Greek who gave his name to
the narcissus flower..."
BALI
I Made Djimat, dancer, musician
Cristina Wistari, dancer, musician
I Wayan Bawa, dancer, musician
Ni Wayan Sekarini, dancer, musician
BRASIL
Augusto Omolú, dancer, Candomblé tradition
Ory Sacramento, musician
Jorge "Funk" Paim, musician
Antonio Carlos dos Santos Araújo, musician
INDIA
Sanjukta Panigrahi, dancer, Odissi
Raghunath Panigrahi, musician
Gangadhar Pradhan, musician
Hemant Kumar Das, musician
Pradeepta Sekhar Mohapatra, musician
JAPAN
Kanichi Hanayagi, dancer, Nihon Buyo
Mark Oshima
ODIN TEATRET
Kai Bredholt, actor, musician
Emil Ferslev, musician
Jan Ferslev, actor, musician
Frans Winther,musician
Isabel Ubeda, actor
Julia Varley, actor
