Pedagogue, actress and director

Born in Argentina, she graduated from the Escuela Superior de Arte Dramático de Buenos Aires, with Julio Baccaro (integral training of the actor, Stanislavsky Method), and specialised in Theatre Anthropology with Eugenio Barba (Odin Teatret, Holstebro, Denmark) and through the ISTA (International School of Theatre Anthropology), since 1998.

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She has studied in Argentina and abroad with : Vladimir Trepliekov (Moscow National Theatre School); Tadashi Suzuki's technique; Sotiguie Koyaté and Yoshi Oida (Peter Brook's company). Arianne Mnouchkine (seminar with residency at La Cartoucherie), Dance Theatre (Fantastic Theatre Company directed by Silvia Vladimivsky - Salo Pasik); Dance Theatre School directed by Adriana Barenstein (integral training: contemporary dance, improvisation, mime, contact improvisation, tango and ballroom dancing, creation of scenic material) at the Centro Cultural Ricardo Rojas, Buenos Aires; Augusto Fernándes (approach to Shakespeare and the actor's work on himself; permanent training and collaboration since 1997 Julia Varley, Odin Teatret, Denmark. Among others. Dance : Marta Graham's technique (Fredy Romero's studio, Buenos Aires). Tango, milonga and ballroom dances and Latin American rhythms.

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In 1996, she met the actress and director Julia Varley from Odin Teatret (Denmark) and in 1999 she moved to Denmark to follow her teacher, study with her and follow the work of Odin Teatret and its director Eugenio Barba. She lived in Denmark for more than 10 years working on the construction of the Archives and became over the years an international collaborator of Odin Teatret. Julia Varley directed her in two performances and in a working demonstration.
 

Ana Woolf has become an international collaborator of Odin Teatret working as assistant director to Eugenio Barba in three international projects and in one of the last performances in commemoration of Odin Teatret's 50th anniversary. She is an international collaborator of Odin Teatret and has worked as assistant director to Eugenio Barba on several international projects: "Ur-Hamlet"; "The Marriage of Medea"; "The Chronic Life" and "If the Grain Does Not Die".

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In 1998, she co-founded Magdalena 2a Generación, a Latin American network of women in the contemporary arts, linked to the international network The Magdalena Project, which contributes to the empowerment and emancipation of women in and through the performing arts. Ana Woolf has participated and collaborated in the development of several projects funded by different organisations in relation to gender violence (Pescara, Italy 2013), Argentina (2012-2014).
 

Since 2011, Ana Woolf has been a lecturer at the ISTA (International School of Theatre Anthropology). Following the principles of the ISTA, she has developed a special training based on Eastern techniques and Latin American rhythms: "The stage presence of the body/voice". She coordinates workshops and seminars all over the world: Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, Egypt, Bosnia, Serbia, Denmark, Spain, Poland, Italy, France, Germany, Holland, New Zealand, Colombia, Peru, Chile, Taiwan, China, Malaysia...

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Ana Woolf is Qigong Instructor and introduction to Chinese Medicine. She has been studying alchemy since 2012 : Taoist Alchemy at INBI World, with master Oleg Cherne (Russia) and Lic. Marcelo Plotnik (Argentina); Residence in Bariloche for study and practice (2014); Study trip to China and Tibet. Sacred mountains (2015); The way of the shaman in Colombia - Peru - Amazonas/Brazil (2015).

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Ana Woolf founded the Centro de Antropología Teatral en Argentina (CATA) with the support of the Barba Varley Foundation; and initiated the Grupo LAT (Laboratorio de Antropología Teatral), with which she has directed several shows.
 

Ana Woolf has written several articles on theatre, theatre and gender, published in different theatre criticism magazines around the world (Cuba, Argentina, Denmark, New Zealand, Italy, Wales). She has also translated books by Julia Varley, Eugenio Barba, Iben Nagel Rasmussen and other authors.