ABSTRACT
Jerzy Marian Grotowski was born in the small town of Rzeszow in southeastern Poland on August 11, 1933. His mother, Emilia, was a schoolteacher and his father, Marian, worked as a forest ranger and painter. In 1950, Grotowski's family moved to Krakow where he finished his secondary studies. He had missed a year of school due to illness, the beginning of serious health problems that would plague Grotowski throughout his life. Grotowski conducted his research with a small, international group at Brzezinka through summer 1979. For the Theatre of Sources team, Brzezinka's workspaces, both outdoors and indoors, became a "theatre." The Theatre of Sources team worked from what Grotowski calls their personal preferences, not the preferences of a particular tradition. In October 1982, Grotowski went to Haiti to ponder his dilemma. By December 10, he had taken up residence at the home of his close friend, André Gregory, in New York.
