This dissertation uses the SITI Company's mission-creating new work, training young theatre artists, and international collaboration-as a basis for situating the company within theatre history. Starting with the foundations built by Artaud, Brecht, and Copeau, early 20th Century artists influenced by Asian performance techniques, followed by the Wooster Group, Theatre du Soleil, and Complicite, late 20th Century collaborative theatre companies which create new works, this work offers a context for understanding SITI's style where movement assumes as important a role in performance as text....
This dissertation uses the SITI Company's mission-creating new work, training young theatre artists, and international collaboration-as a basis for si...