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Fine Bone China - 2005 |
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Fran Barbe ARTISTIC DIRECTOR |
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She has her own company, Fran Barbe Dance, which fuses Butoh with contemporary dance theatre. She is the co-founder of Theatre Training Initiative www.theatretraining.org.uk, an organisation dedicated to developing the art of live performance through challenging, intercultural practices. She was awarded a prestigious Fellowship in the Creative and Performing Arts from AHRB and Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation in 2001, allowing her to pursue practice-based research into Japanese Butoh and Tadashi Suzuki’s actor training method. She is currently a lecturer and researcher at the University of Kent, specialising in contemporary Japanese performance, and is a guest lecturer at a number of institutions around the UK. |
![]() Palpitation - 2004 |
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