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).
This article is a chronicle on ISTA Bologna 1990 touching on different aspects of the session. It was first published in 1992 in English in Women and Theatre – Occasional Papers (Warwick University); in Spanish in Máscara, a. II, n. 9-10; and in Italian in Teatro Eurasiano, n. 2. In 1994 and 1996 the article was included in the anthologies about ISTA, The Tradition of ISTA (FILO-ISTA, Londrina 1994), and in The Performers Village (Drama, Copenhagen).