ABSTRACT
Chapter 2, “Intercultural Influences,” looks at how several Western practitioners have adapted intercultural aesthetics in their performance training practices throughout the 20th century. Intercultural influences are somewhat of a norm as the boundaries between what makes a particular training system unique to the country of origin are becoming increasingly blurred. The fact that these practitioners were exploring intercultural performance is important because at the time, it addressed the need for exploring symbolism, oppositional tension, ritual, and a search for alternate approaches of performance practice as opposed to methods and systems based on the teachings of Konstantin Stanislavski.
