Tadashi Suzuki and Anne Bogart at Symposium on the Suzuki Method with SITI Company

The Saratoga International Theater Institute (also known as SITI) was an

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-based

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based in

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and

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. SITI was founded in 1992 by American director

Anne Bogart Anne Bogart (born September 25, 1951) is an American theatre and opera director. She is currently one of the Artistic Directors of SITI Company, which she founded with Japanese director Tadashi Suzuki in 1992. She is a professor at Columbia Uni ...

and Japanese director Tadashi Suzuki on the campus of Skidmore College to redefine and revitalize contemporary

theater Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage. The perform ...

in the United States. Originally envisioned as a summer institute in

, SITI has expanded to encompass a year-round program based in

, with a summer season in Saratoga. The company believed that contemporary American theater must incorporate artists from around the world and learn from a cross-cultural exchange of dance,

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, and performance experiences. SITI is noted for combining the

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process of

with the Suzuki Method of Actor Training of Tadashi Suzuki. Both techniques are alternatives to the Stanislavski-based Method training which has dominated American stage and screen for generations. Over their history, the company produced more than forty shows. In October 2020, SITI announced they would stop producing shows in 2022, although classes would continue. Its final performances were of ''A Christmas Carol'' at Bard College.

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