Phillip Zarrilli
Fellow
Phillip Zarrilli works internationally as a director and trains actors/dancers using psychophysical processes through Asian martial/meditation arts. During his career he has created, directed, or performed in over 18 “intercultural” productions. Most recently he co-created and Told by the Wind with Kaite O’Reilly and Jo Shapland (THE LLANARTH GROUP 2010), and “sweet…dry…bitter…plaintive” with Stella Subbiah of SANKALPAM (2010). Zarrilli founded THE LLANARTH GROUP when he moved to the UK in 2000. Projects are international in scope and bring together a variety of artists for collaborative work. Between 1976 and 1993, Zarrilli lived in Kerala, India for a total of seven years—each trip devoted to undergoing intensive training in and researching kalarippayattu—Kerala’s traditional yoga-based martial art. He is author of numerous books including When the body becomes all eyes: paradigms, practices and discourses of power in kalarippayattu (Oxford University Press 1998), Kathakali Dance-Drama: Where Gods and Demons Come to Play (Routledge, 2000), and (ed.) Acting Reconsidered (Routledge, 2002), among many others.
Phillip Zarrilli works internationally as a director and trains actors/dancers using psychophysical processes through Asian martial/meditation arts. During his career he has created, directed, or performed in over 18 “intercultural” productions. Most recently he co-created and Told by the Wind with Kaite O’Reilly and Jo Shapland (THE LLANARTH GROUP 2010), and “sweet…dry…bitter…plaintive” with Stella Subbiah of SANKALPAM (2010). Zarrilli founded THE LLANARTH GROUP when he moved to the UK in 2000. Projects are international in scope and bring together a variety of artists for collaborative work. Between 1976 and 1993, Zarrilli lived in Kerala, India for a total of seven years—each trip devoted to undergoing intensive training in and researching kalarippayattu—Kerala’s traditional yoga-based martial art. He is author of numerous books including When the body becomes all eyes: paradigms, practices and discourses of power in kalarippayattu (Oxford University Press 1998), Kathakali Dance-Drama: Where Gods and Demons Come to Play (Routledge, 2000), and (ed.) Acting Reconsidered (Routledge, 2002), among many others.
