Roberta Carreri is an actor,
teacher, writer and organiser. She was born in 1953 in
Milan, Italy, where she graduated in Advertising Design and studied
Art History at the Milan State University. She joined Odin
Teatret in 1974 during the group's stay in Carpignano, Italy.
Roberta Carreri has taken part in ISTA (International School of Theatre
Anthropology) since its beginning in 1980, coming into
contact with performing techniques from Japan, India, Bali and
China. This has influenced her work as an actress and teacher. From
1980 to 1986 she studied with Japanese masters such as Katsuko
Azuma (Nihon Buyo dancer), Natsu Nakajima and Kazuo Ohno (Butoh
dancers). She gives workshops for actors all over the world and
presents, as a work demonstration, her professional autobiography,
Traces in the
Snow. She organises and leads the annual
international workshop Odin Week Festival in Holstebro and abroad.
In 2009 she directed Rumor with Cinzia Ciaramicoli for
Masakini Theatre Company (Malaysia). In 2014 The Woman Who Spat
Out the Apple, with Rosa Antuña - Núcleo de
Criaçao Rosa Antuña (Brazil). Her professional experiences are
presented in The Actor's Way, edited by Erik Exe
Christoffersen. Roberta Carreri has written her own book
Tracce (published in 2007 by Edizioni Il Principe
Costante, Milano (in Italian); in 2012 by Editora Perspectiva,
Brazil (in Portuguese) and Ed. Artezblai, Spain; and Triskel Artes
Escénicas, Chile (in Spanish); in 2013 by El Apuntador Ediciones,
Argentina (in Spanish); in 2014 by Routledge, UK/USA (in English),
in which she relives the most relevant aspects of her theatre life
- her training, pedagogy and her story as an actress of Odin
Teatret. Her articles have been published in journals such as
New Theatre Quarterly, Teatro e Storia, Máscara, The Open
Page, Peripeti and Performance Research.
Performances
The Book of
Dances
Presenze e Figure
Come! And the
Day will be Ours
Anabasis
The
Million
Brecht's
Ashes
The Gospel
According to Oxyrhincus
Judith
Kaosmos
Rooms in the
Emperor's Palace
Inside the Skeleton of the Whale
Ode to Progress
Mythos
Salt
The Great Cities under the Moon
Andersen's
Dream
Don Giovanni all'Inferno
The Chronic Life
The Tree
Theatrum Mundi
performances
Ur-Hamlet
Four Poems for Sanjukta
Ego Faust
The Island of Labyrinths
Odin performances for children
Dennis, the Woolf
J.S. Bach
Performance Demonstrations
Traces in the Snow
The Whispering Winds
Dialogue between Two
Actors
Letter to the Wind
Performances directed by Roberta Carreri for
other companies
The Empty Nest ("Nido vacío", with Carolina Pizarro and
Guilia Varotto)
The Woman Who Spat Out the Apple (with Rosa Antuña, Núcleo de
Criaçao Rosa Antuña)
Rumor (with Cinzia Ciaramicoli for Masakini Theatre
Company)