You may watch a Sony TV, drive a Honda or ride a Nishiki bicycle to work. Once in a while you go out for sushi. To effectively communicate with an audience, theater must be inclusive. Traditional theater education, which emphasizes European and Northern American plays and techniques, fails to match the realities of our global cultural experience. Just as it's important for drama students to study Greek tragedy and Shakespeare, so must they also learn nonwestern forms in order to be complete.
Asian techniques offer actors a comprehensive physical training system.
And it was left to the individual actor to synthesize these into the whole of their acting. By teaching Asian theater techniques, I'm opening new windows of opportunity to the student. Goto uses the Suzuki actor training method as the basis for his lessons. In the late 1970s, the acclaimed Japanese theater director Tadashi Suzuki created this highly physical system of training by drawing on fundamental movements from various performing arts. His sources included traditional Japanese theater forms, as well as flamenco and others.