It is the common features of these traditions which is the discovery of Eugenio Barba who travelled to India when still a disciple of Grotowski where he observed the Kathakali theatre there, which untill then had been undiscovered by the west.
It is the common features of these very specific techniques believed to facilitate this transmutation across a wide spectrum of performance traditions which is the discovery of Eugenio Barba and the study of ISTA. Barba travelled to India when still a disciple of Grotowski where he observed the Kathakali theatre, which untill then had been undiscovered by the west.