{"title":"SITI Training: Viewpoints and the Suzuki Method for Cross-Cultural Collaboration","authors":"Lorenzo Montanini","doi":"10.1017/s0266464x23000349","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The training that the Saratoga International Theater Institute (SITI) perfected during its thirty years of existence is its most relevant heritage. SITI believed that training was a crucial part of a performer’s education and ethos. Its constitutive elements – Viewpoints and the Suzuki Method for actor training – are here put in a dialectical opposition that nurtures hybridization. This article investigates how, in fact, these two trainings intersect and also form new ‘languages’ (that is, systems of representation) whenever they are performed. A contextual analysis of SITI’s training as a foundation for making work and as a means for educating actors provides a clearer understanding of why and how SITI training is an instrument that facilitates and fosters cross-cultural collaboration.","PeriodicalId":43990,"journal":{"name":"NEW THEATRE QUARTERLY","volume":"20 2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3000,"publicationDate":"2024-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"NEW THEATRE QUARTERLY","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0266464x23000349","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"THEATER","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The training that the Saratoga International Theater Institute (SITI) perfected during its thirty years of existence is its most relevant heritage. SITI believed that training was a crucial part of a performer’s education and ethos. Its constitutive elements – Viewpoints and the Suzuki Method for actor training – are here put in a dialectical opposition that nurtures hybridization. This article investigates how, in fact, these two trainings intersect and also form new ‘languages’ (that is, systems of representation) whenever they are performed. A contextual analysis of SITI’s training as a foundation for making work and as a means for educating actors provides a clearer understanding of why and how SITI training is an instrument that facilitates and fosters cross-cultural collaboration.
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New Theatre Quarterly provides a vital international forum where theatrical scholarship and practice can meet and where prevailing dramatic assumptions can be subjected to vigorous critical questioning. It shows that theatre history has a contemporary relevance, that theatre studies need a methodology and that theatre criticism needs a language. The journal publishes news, analysis and debate within the field of theatre studies.