Ingemar Lindh

Ingemar Lindh
Lindh c.1997
Born	Ingemar Willy Lindh (1945-02-21)21 February 1945 Gothenburg, Sweden
Died	26 June 1997(1997-06-26) (aged 52) Malta
Occupation(s)	Theatre director and pedagogue

Ingemar Lindh (21 February 1945 – 26 June 1997) was a Swedish theatre director and pedagogue.

Biography

Lindh went through the drama school Skara Skolscen in Skara 1964-65, and worked at the Stockholm City Theatre. He had trained as a dancer at Stora Teatern in Gothenburg and in Stockholm, and in 1966 he moved to Paris to train as a mime artist under Etienne Decroux. He also worked as Decroux' assistant.

Returning to Sweden, he founded the theatre company Institutet för Scenkonst, whose director he was until his death. He was an invited guest teacher at the 1981 session of ISTA: International School of Theatre Anthropology, in Volterra, Italy. The same year he was asked by Eugenio Barba to oversee the training of the younger generation at Odin Teatret, which he did for a short period of time. From 1984 to 1996 he lived in Pontremoli where he directed, in Teatro la Rosa, a School of Theatre.

In 1995 he became a cofounder of the research program xCHA (questioning Human Creativity as Acting), at the University of Malta.

Ingemar Lindh died on 26 June 1997 in Malta.

Bibliography

• The paper canoe: a guide to theatre anthropology by Eugenio Barba, London, Routledge, 1995
• Pietre di Guado by Ingemar Lindh (original edition) Pontedera, Bandecchi & Vivaldi, 1997
• Stenar att gå på by Ingemar Lindh (introduction by Willmar Sauter) Möklinta, Gidlunds förlag, 2003
• Stepping Stones by Ingemar Lindh (introduction by Frank Camilleri), Holstebro-Malta-Wroclaw, Icarus Publishing Enterprise, 2010

References

• Words on Decroux by Thomas Leabhart, Pomona College Theatre Dept., 1997
• A Dictionary of Theatre Anthropology: The Secret Art of the Performer by Eugenio Barba, London, Routledge, 1991
• Stones of water by Julia Varley, London, Routledge, 2011

External links

• Institutet för Scenkonst