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30/05/2026

NOW OPEN THE JAN FABRE ARCHIVE AND TEACHING CENTRE!
Located within the historic Biblioteca Bernardini di Lecce, the newly opened Jan Fabre Archive and Teaching Centre offers a permanent home for decades of artistic research, performance, and theatre-making. The centre is conceived not only as a repository of artistic heritage, but as a space where future generations of performers, researchers, and artists can engage directly with an evolving body of work.

Accompanying the opening is the exhibition 'BORROWED TIME', curated by Giacinto Di Pietrantonio, bringing together more than 200 works, including Jan Fabre’s theatrical drawings and iconic photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe, Helmut Newton, Dirk Braeckman and Jorge Molder.

Together, the archive and exhibition reveal the many layers of Fabre’s artistic universe: a continuous dialogue between body and image, memory and metamorphosis.

📍 Bernardini Library, Lecce, Italy
Video: Inside the new Jan Fabre Archive and Teaching Centre.

29/05/2026

DAY 5 | A very special Jan Fabre Teaching Group 10-day masterclass is currently unfolding in , .

Hosted as part of the opening of the 'Jan Fabre Archive and Teaching Centre', this inaugural session brings together actors and performers from across the globe.

Led by performer Irene Urciuoli, participants are working with the training methods and exercises developed by Jan Fabre and some of his most experienced performers over more than four decades of theatre and performance-making.

Set within the Biblioteca Bernardini di Lecce, the Jan Fabre Archive and Teaching Centre combines archival research, artistic training and contemporary performance practice, creating a space where artistic knowledge can be preserved, shared and passed on to future generations.

Participants include: Giuseppe De Domenico, Giacomo De Luca, Ivet Codina Garcia, Vincenzo Crea, Ilzé Civinskaitė, Pedro Florim, Marianthi Koskina, Giulia Maenza, Natalia Mas, Eugenio Papalia, Giorgia Paolillo, Ursel Tilk.
Also in photo: Irene Urciuoli & Matteo Franco

27/05/2026

NEW EXHIBITION ANNOUNCED | JAN FABRE. BORROWED TIME
Accompanying the opening of the JAN FABRE ARCHIVE AND TEACHING CENTRE, created through the collaboration between Jan Fabre and the Polo Biblio-Museale di Lecce, is the exhibition JAN FABRE. BORROWED TIME, curated by Giacinto Di Pietrantonio.

The exhibition brings together more than 200 works, including Jan Fabre’s theatre drawings alongside theatrical photographs by some of the most celebrated photographers of our time among them Robert Mapplethorpe, Helmut Newton, Dirk Braeckman, and Jorge Molder, artists who, over the years, have captured and interpreted Fabre’s theatre through images of extraordinary depth and intensity.

Through these powerful encounters between photography, drawing, theatre, and visual art, the exhibition reveals the complexity of Fabre’s oeuvre: a continuous dialogue between disciplines driven by an enduring search for metamorphosis and a profound consilience between theatre and the visual arts.

BORROWED TIME
Theatrical Drawings by Jan Fabre
Theatre Photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe, Helmut Newton, Dirk Braeckman and Jorge Molder
Organized by the Polo Biblio-Museale of Lecce (Museo Castromediano - Lecce) with the support of Mucciaccia Gallery, Rome and Cortina d’Ampezzo

Biblioteca Bernardini di Lecce

Photo: Robert Mapplethorpe photographed the iconic performance 'The Power of Theatrical Madness', world premiere Venice Biennale 1984, on the invitation of Franco Quadri and Maurizio Calvesi. | In Photo: Roberto de Jonghe and Wim Vandekeybus.

23/05/2026

ANNOUNCING THE JAN FABRE ARCHIVE AND TEACHING CENTRE | In the beautiful baroque city of Lecce, Italy, a significant new chapter in contemporary performance and theatrical heritage begins.

Within the historic Biblioteca Bernardini di Lecce, home to internationally renowned collections dedicated to Theatrical Culture and the Performing Arts, including the Carmelo Bene Archive and the Laflis of Eugenio Barba and Julia Varley, we are incredibly proud to announce that the newly established ‘Jan Fabre Archive and Teaching Centre’ now takes its place as a vital centre for theatrical memory, artistic research, and contemporary performance practice.

More than an archive, the Jan Fabre Archive and Teaching Centre will also serve as a living space for artistic transmission and training, dedicated to supporting the next generation of performers.

The programme will include a minimum of two masterclasses each year, beginning with the inaugural session taking place from Monday 25 May to Friday 5 June 2026. Actors and performers from around the world will gather in Lecce for an intensive working session led by Jan Fabre alongside leading performers from Troubleyn/Jan Fabre. The first session will be taught by the exceptional performer Irene Urciuoli.

Photo: Stephan Vanfleteren

22/05/2026

BEHIND THE SCENES | A beautiful group moment captured at the Troubleyn Laboratorium with Jan Fabre, Eugenio Barba, Julia Varley, Miet Martens, and Johan De Boose during ‘An Encounter with Eugenio Barba’.

Part of Troubleyn / Jan Fabre’s ‘Masters of the 21st Century’ series, the masterclass brought together theatre-makers around Barba’s pioneering vision of performance, shaped by decades of research, intercultural exchange, and the legacy of Grotowski. Founder of Odin Teatret and one of the defining voices in contemporary theatre, Barba, assisted by Varley, continues to inspire generations of performers through their deep commitment to embodied knowledge, artistic rigor, and cultural dialogue.

Eugenio Barba & Odin Teatret

16/05/2026

DAY 2 IS UNDERWAY! | AN ENCOUNTER WITH EUGENIO BARBA
📍 Troubleyn/Laboratorium

The work continues. Today, performers, directors, theatre scholars, dramaturges, teachers, and students gather once again at Troubleyn/Laboratorium for the second day of this rare encounter with Eugenio Barba and Julia Varley ( Barba & Odin Teatret)

Across conversations and demonstrations, participants are engaging deeply with Barba’s decades-long theatrical research, investigating presence, rhythm, energy, and theatre anthropology.

Barba developed this research through decades of work with Odin Teatret, studying and exchanging with performance traditions from Asia, Europe, Latin America, and beyond, including Kathakali, Noh, Balinese dance-drama, and Topeng.

***SUNDAY 17 MAY (17:00–20:00) OPEN TO THE PUBLIC***
The concluding public session includes the film Zona Limite and the demonstration The Flying Carpet.

🎟 Tickets & info:
https://www.troubleyn.be/eng/eugenio-barba

Participants include: Ivette Codina, Viki Christidou, Anny Czupper, Pedro Fardim, Svetlana Goncharova, Geraldine L. Guerrero, Ivana Jozić, Ester Mollo, Pietro Quadrino, Amit Ron, Sylvia Solakidi, Irene Urciuoli, Pé Vermeersch

14/05/2026

READING TIP! | The British publishing house Bloomsbury Publishing UK (Methuen Drama - Bloomsbury Publishing UK) launched an 8-volume series, ‘The Great European Stage Directors’ spanning from Stanislavski to Fabre. This comprehensive series delves into the genealogy and development of theatre practice by focusing on individual directors within their historical, cultural, and theoretical contexts. Each volume provides in-depth analysis of three major directors, making it an essential resource for theatre practitioners and scholars alike.

Jan Fabre has been featured in the prestigious final volume, alongside Pina Bausch and Romeo Castellucci. The series under the guidance of the influential theatre historian Simon Shepherd, is a fascinating read for anyone passionate about the evolution of European stage directing.

MORE INFO/ BUY: https://www.bloomsbury.com/.../great-european-stage.../

12/05/2026

LO JAN FABRE TEACHING GROUP SI RECHERÀ A LECCE, ITALIA, PER UNA SPECIALE MASTERCLASS DI 10 GIORNI DEDICATA AD ATTORI E DANZATORI PRESSO LA
📍 Biblioteca Bernardini di Lecce
📅 Date: lunedì 25 maggio – venerdì 5 giugno 2026
🎭 Con l’eccezionale insegnante e performer Irene Urciuoli

Durante questo workshop unico, il corpo dell’artista diventa uno strumento capace di analizzare e incarnare il passaggio dall’azione alla recitazione. L’immaginazione e la consapevolezza fisica vengono progressivamente affinate, mentre gli attori sono guidati nella costruzione di un ponte verso uno stato di trasformazione fisica. La serie di esercizi si concentra sull’affinamento e sull’ottimizzazione sistematica della ricerca del potenziale della recitazione fisica (detta anche “recitazione fisiologica”).

📌 La selezione avverrà in base all’ordine di arrivo delle candidature, con priorità ai primi iscritti
🗣️ Masterclass in inglese, con traduzione in italiano disponibile
🔗 Maggiori informazioni: https://www.troubleyn.be/eng/lecce-italy-

Foto: Guido De Vos | Conor Doherty e Irene Urciuoli

08/05/2026

BEHIND THE SCENES | Moments from a beautiful DEMIDOV ACTING INTENSIVE 5-Day Acting Masterclass with Demidov-Certified coach Kimon Fioretos last week /Laboratorium !

Guided by renowned acting coach Kimon Fioretos, this masterclass offered structured, experience-based training in the Demidov Organic Acting Technique, a psychotechnical approach to acting developed by the Russian pedagogue Nikolai Demidov. The work explored an alternative foundation for acting, one in which perception, surrender, and subconscious creativity replaced effort, control, and psychological construction.

07/05/2026

UPCOMING MASTERCLASS | JAN FABRE TEACHING GROUP - 10-Day Masterclasses for Actors & Dancers
📍 Biblioteca Bernardini di Lecce, Italy
📅 Monday 25 May – Friday 5 June 2026
More info: https://www.troubleyn.be/eng/lecce-italy-

Participants will work on exercises such as ‘The insect’ (seen here):

'Another important element in the exploration of the insect is the study of asymmetry. A leg can suddenly move in the opposite direction than the direction in which the other legs are moving, different parts of the body can turn at straight angles to carry out a task more efficiently. The performers learn to use all parts of the body as autonomous mechanical parts…’ - Jan Fabre & Luk Van den Dries ( 'From Act to Acting: Jan Fabre’s Guidelines for the Performer of the 21st century')

In image teacher/performer: Annabelle Chambon
Photographer: Lieven Herreman

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