Julia Varley (UK/Denmark) since 1976 is actress at Odin Teatret. Since 1990 she has been involved in the conception and organisation of ISTA (International School of Theatre Anthropology). She is active in The Magdalena Project, a network of women in contemporary theatre of which is a founding member. She directs Transit International Festival and is on the editorial board of The Open Page, a journal devoted to women’s work in theatre. Author of numerous articles and essays and has published five books, among which Stones of Water. Notes of an Odin Actress (Routledge 2011).
Augusto Omolú joined the artistic staff of ISTA for the Londrina session in 1994 and was present at all ISTA sessions after that until the Bielefeld session in 2000. In 2013, Augusto Omolú was killed in his home in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. This article presents his contribution to theatre anthropology, ISTA, Theatrum Mundi and Odin Teatret with the Afro-Brazilian dance of the orixás from the Candomblé rituals. With Odin Teatret, Augusto Omolú performed in Andersen’s Dream, Great Cities Under the Moon, Ode to Progress and in the demonstration created after the ISTA session in Copenhagen in 1996, The Whispering Winds.