Saint Petersburg State Theatre Arts Academy

theatre school in Saint Petersburg. Theatre Arts Academy adress: Mokhovaya

Street, 34.

35.

of the city, was established in 1779 and is the

oldest and largest institution of its kind in Russia that trains and educates every possible professional needed in the field of contemporary theatre.

laid in Saint Petersburg in the 1740-s when the first

"acting class" appeared in the curriculum of the Cadet Corps, a college for boys is located in Menshikov Palace. Not long after that the institution widened its range of theatre majors offered to its scholars, and a Court Cadet Theatre, a forerunner of a contemporary School Theatre, was opened in February 1750.

The first constant professional public state theatre - "Russian Theatre for Performing Tragedy and Comedy" - was instituted by Empress Elizabeth in 1756; its company consisting of Cadet Corps alumni.

A Drama school was based in the Emperor's Theatre for a while, before it was separated into the State Theatre Institution in 1779 to become the first institution of its kind in Russia.

annual roll of around 950 full-time students with faculty staff

numbering over 200 professionals including doctors, professors, leading actors and artistic directors of the main city theatres. It consists of four departments - Drama Department, Puppetry Department, Set Design and Stage Technology Department, Theatre Studies Department - where students are trained in great variety of theatre majors and are given opportunity to become successful professionals in the following majors:
acting in drama
directing in drama theatre
acting/directing in musical theatre
acting/directing in variety show
TV and video-film directing
acting in puppet theatre
directing in puppet theatre
set design in puppet theatre
stage technology in puppet theatre
set design
stage technology
theatre research (theatre critics)
performing arts management

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Extensive practical work - producing a performance - is carried

out during schooling. An element of classroom work, it later turns into a public performance staged in the Academy Theatre. Its repertoire varies each year from 10 to 16 productions, and as a rule the Academy Theatre holds 150-180 public performances a year, with participation of students ranging from the second up to the final year of education. The best performances are moved to be staged in the leading theatres of Saint Petersburg: the Maly Drama Theatre, the Alexandrinsky Theatre, the Lensovet Theatre, etc. This brings collaborative projects with leading professionals from the performing Arts that provide a way for students to find a place in the contemporary theatre.

acting and directing, St. Petersburg State Academy of Dramatic Art

(SPbGATI), chairman of theater educators STD Russia.

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