Sasi in LASALLE's Actor Training conversation series

ITI Director T. Sasitharan spoke about the Singaporean perspective on "Interculturalism and training the performing artist" as part of LASALLE's series, Actor training in the 21st century: a global perspective, a series of conversations with leading actor trainers from around the world.

"We found that buried within the Western canon of theatre and acting, was Asian tradition. I felt that it was our responsibility to recover that, not so much as an act of triumphalism, an East vs West conflict, but simply to understand what the roots of a global theatre tradition might look if we then went back to Asian traditions. We realised that Western canonical practices in theatre had to co-exist with Asian practice, and this is the fundamental founding principle of ITI.

ITI is not about Asian theatre. ITI is finding a balance in global theatre in a postcolonial moment, after the colonisers have retreated."