Eugenio Barba is a Professional author and theatre director based

in Denmark. He is the founder of the Odin Theatre and

the International School of Theatre Anthropology, both located
in Holstebro, Denmark. In 1961 Barba went to Poland to learn about
directing at the State Theatre School in Warsaw, however, he left
one year later to join Jerzy Grotowski who is a famous theatre
practioners who has inspired work to this day, who at that time was
the director of the Theatre of 13 Rows in Opole. Barba worked with
Grotowski for three years. In 1963 he travelled to India where he

studied Kathakali, a theatre form which was unknown in the West at

that time.
When Barba returned to Oslo in 1964, he was inspired to become a
professional theatre director. However, as he wasnt from that
country, he was unable to find work. Therefore he gathered together
a few young people who had not been accepted by the State Theatre
School, and created Odin Teatret in October 1964. I personally am
incredibly inspired by this piece of information I have researched, as
Barba worked with the legend Grotowski and had the passion to
create his own theatre company.
Over the past fifty years Eugenio Barba has directed 76 productions
with Odin Teatret. For example some of his most known production
are Ferai which was shown (1969) and My Father's House in (1972).
Since 1974, Eugenio Barba and Odin Teatret have devised their own
way of being present in diverse social contexts through the practice
of the "barter", an exchange of cultural expressions with a
community or an institution, structured as a common performance.
Also, he had opened up his up a school of theatre known as
ISTA, International School of Theatre Anthropology, were he used
new field of studies called Theatre Anthropology.