Intercultural Theatre Institute (ITI), an independent theatre school, offers a Professional Diploma in Intercultural Theatre (Acting), and started classes in January 2012 with an intake of 10 students. The aim is not to train classical performers but to activate in each student a repository of aesthetic sensibilities, techniques, theories and performative strategies drawn from the theatre traditions of Asia; a resource that they may draw upon throughout their artistic lives. Students thus may select and draw elements – precepts or aspects of gesture, voice, movement, rhythm, breath-control, presentation, dramaturgy and form – which may be recombined, assimilated psycho-physically and situated within the context of contemporary theatre as they concurrently undergo the Acting module.