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The Third World Institute of Theatre Arts Studies (TWITAS) was founded in the early 1970s by La MaMa's Ellen Stewart and Cecile Guidote-Alvarez. The two met while Stewart was serving as UNESCO cultural ambassador to the Philippines. TWITAS's purpose was to generate cross-cultural exchanges in world theater, focusing on the indigenous performance traditions of Asia, Africa, and Latin America

Productions
TWITAS brought theater troupes to perform at La MaMa from such countries as the Philippines (Himig Ng Lahi, 1974), Papua New Guinea (The Raun Raun Theatre, 1978) , India (Kathakali Dance, 1975 and Yakshagana, 1978) , Nigeria (Oba Koso, 1975) , and Colombia (Grupo Infantil de la Madera, 1979).

http://www.nytimes.com/1986/10/26/theater/stretching-boundaries-the-merlin-of-la-mama.html