Eugenio Barba is the Founder and Director of Odin Teatret, and Director of the International School of Theatre Anthropology. He is also Examining Professor at Aarhus University in Denmark and the author of Beyond the Floating Islands and The Dictionary of Theatre Anthropology. Richard Fowler, Artistic Director of Primus Theatre in Canada, has also translated A Dictionary of Theatre Anthropology: The Secret Art of the Performer by Eugenio Barba and Nicola Savarese (1991) and The Actor’s Way (1993).

• Preface 1 THE GENESIS OF THEATRE ANTHROPOLOGY 2 DEFINITION 3 RECURRING PRINCIPLES 4 NOTES FOR THE PERPLEXED (AND FOR MYSELF) 5 ENERGY, OR RATHER, THE THOUGHT 6 THE DILATED BODY: Notes on the search for meaning 7 A THEATRE NOT MADE OF STONES AND BRICKS 8 CANOES, BUTTERFLIES AND A HORSE