Ingemar Lindh (born 21 February 1945 in Gothenburg, Sweden) is a

theatre director A theatre director or stage director is a professional in the theatre field who oversees and orchestrates the mounting of a theatre production such as a play, opera, dance, drama, musical theatre performance, etc. by unifying various endeavors a ...

and

pedagogue Pedagogy (), most commonly understood as the approach to teaching, is the theory and practice of learning, and how this process influences, and is influenced by, the social, political and psychological development of learners. Pedagogy, taken ...

Biography

After his first theatrical experiences at the local theatre school

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and straw jobs at the Municipal Theatre in Stockholm, he educated himself at Stora Teaterns Ballettskola in Gothenburg, the National Academy of Ballett in Stockholm and at the School of Etienne Decroux in Paris where, after 2 years as pupil, he became the assistant of the great master and creator of "le mime corporelle". In 1971 he founds in Storhögen, Sweden, the theatre company Institutet för Scenkonst where he will work as director, pedagogue and muse throughout his life. He participates as guest teacher and artist at the 1981's session of ISTA: International School of Theatre Anthropology, in Volterra, Italy. The same year he was asked by

Eugenio Barba Eugenio Barba (born 29 October 1936) is an Italian 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. Biography Barba wa ...

to take care of the training of the younger generation at

Odin Teatret Odin Teatret is an avant-garde theatre group based in Holstebro, Denmark. It was founded by Italian theatre director and investigator Eugenio Barba in 1964. Odin Teatret is a part of NTL, Nordisk Teaterlaboratorium, which also includes the Inte ...

, which he did for a short period of time.Varley 1997, p. 17, p. 24. From 1984 to 1996 he lived in

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where he direct, in Teatro la Rosa, a School of Theatre. In 1995 he is cofounder of the research program xCHA (questioning Human Creativity as Acting), created inside the structure of the

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. Ingemar Lindh dies 26 June 1997 in

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during a short pause while teaching with his colleagues from Institutet för Scenkonst during a theatre workshop.

Bibliography

*''The paper canoe: a guide to theatre anthropology'' by

, London,

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, 1995 *''Pietre di Guado" by Ingemar Lindh (original edition)

Pontedera Pontedera (; la, Pons Herae) is an italian comune with a population of 29.270 inhabitants, located in the province of Pisa, Tuscany, central Italy. The town is located 20 km (12 miles) from Pisa and 50 km (31 miles) from Florence. It houses t ...

, Bandecchi & Vivaldi, 1997 *''Stenar att gå på'' by Ingemar Lindh (introduction by Willmar Sauter) Möklinta, Gidlunds förlag, 2003 *''Stepping Stones'' by Ingemar Lindh (introduction by Frank Camilleri), Holstebro-Malta-Wroclaw, Icarus Publishing Enterprise, 2010

Notes

References

*''Words on Decroux'' by

Thomas Leabhart Thomas Leabhart (born 1944) is an American corporeal mime and corporeal mime teacher. Leabhart studied at the Ecole de Mime Etienne Decroux, Paris under the instruction of master mime and teacher Etienne Decroux from 1968 to 1972. He current ...

, Pomona College Theatre Dept., 1997 *''A Dictionary of Theatre Anthropology: The Secret Art of the Performer'' by

, London,

, 1991 *''Stones of water'' by

Julia Varley Julia Varley, OBE (16 March 1871, Bradford, Yorkshire – 24 November 1952, Yorkshire) was an English trade unionist and suffragette. Early life Born at 4, Monk Street in Horton in Bradford, she was one of seven surviving children out of nine ...

, London,

, 2011

External links

Institutet för Scenkonst
Links to fellow theatre researchers and research centers:
The Grotowski's Institute, PolandOdin Teatret, DenmarkWorkcenter of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richard, Italy
Links of related theatre companies:
Studium Actoris, NorwayGrenland Friteater, NorwayTheatre du Jour (B. Stanley), Washington D.C, USA
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