Barba Varley Foundation ETS

We created the Barba Varley ETS Foundation to actively promote the causes and values that have motivated our lives in the Odin Teatret.

The Foundation focuses on the hidden culture of the ‘nameless’ in theatre. Its aim is to support initiatives by individuals who are disadvantaged due to their gender, ethnicity, geography, age, way of thinking and acting, both inside and outside the theatre.

Free Donation

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Your donation helps the foundation to act quickly and independently.

Refuge Project

A safe place for freedom of expression!
The Project is dedicated to people working in the field of human rights defense.

Scholarships

Applications for Foundation scholarships for 2026
Scholarships will be awarded after verification of admission requirements and receipt of applications.

The Founders: Eugenio Barba and Julia Varley

Eugenio Barba

Eugenio Barba is one of the masters of theatre history in the second half of the twentieth century. His work, which has been an international benchmark for over half a century, has spanned many areas: from the artistic creation of performances to theoretical reflection, from the transmission of experience to the preservation of historical memory, from scientific study of acting technique to… Read All

Julia Varley

Julia Varley is best known as an actress with Odin Teatret, for her vocal work and for her commitment to promoting women in theatre through The Magdalena Project network, the Transit Festival and The Open Page publications. Her own difficulties and constraints have always been a creative impulse for her, based on the strength of vulnerability and… Read All

Projects Barba Varley

Causes supported by your donations.

Donations for disadvantaged individuals

During 2024, the Barba Varley ETS Foundation made donations totalling €8,100.00.

Other economic resources have been invested directly to support activities related to mobile centres in peripheral areas.

Finally, free activities were proposed to support theatre training.

To ensure that all this can continue, please continue to support the Barba Varley ETS Foundation!

Foundation Events

Calendar of activities organised by the Barba Varley Foundation

Theatre Anthropology Course 2024

Origins of theatre anthropology.

The presence of the actor and dancer.
Daily behaviour and extra daily behaviour.

Videos about our humanitarian causes

The Nameless - I Senza Nome

Documentary on the cemetery on the island of 𝑳𝒂𝒎𝒑𝒆𝒅𝒖𝒔𝒂 where migrants are buried.

Where do the disappeared go?

Where are the desaparecidos? The courageous struggle of the victims’ families, as told by Mexican journalists.

Brigadas de Búsqueda

Documentary film about groups searching for their missing relatives in Mexico.