Exploring partnership with the National Institute of Arts and Culture

Welcome to all the participants

A new stage of cultural partnership between Russia and Uzbekistan

Congratulations to our award winners!

“The Stone Guest” premiered in Santiago

Intensive training for Macunaíma school students and teachers

We welcome 12 actors from 8 countries!

2025 QS rating is out

Our choreographers took the stage in the Seychelles

City of Blagoveshchensk is now centre for creative education.

Now as an annual tradition!

Russian Theatre School project moved to Tunisia

First project on this kind African continent!

International student festival of final year shows to be held from April 14 to 30

Aiana Oskembayeva’s divertissement performed during Ayni Opera and Ballet Theatre tour in France

The internship is part of the academic mobility program

New production came as a result of the Directing Lab

Rector Zaslavsky discusses plans for international cooperation with his counterparts

Acting faculty’s students visit Bangalore and New Delhi

GITIS will host a fellowship program InteRussia in Theatre Arts from 24 August to 4 October

They presented “The Seagull” at the final performance

The first GITIS School in Brazil was hosted by the Macunaíma Theatre School

GITIS team is working with the Macunaíma Theatre school

Our students presented a suite from The Nutcracker at the Daniel Sorano National Theatre

The showcase of final year shows takes place in GITIS Theatre

“Russian Theatre School Abroad” program is taking place in Tashkent

It is organized by GITIS, the Moscow Art Theatre Museum, and the Russian House in Chile.

Classes will take place on October 21-28

GITIS is offering professional master classes for theatre managers

Students from Beijing have begun a three-month internship program

Rector’s adviser took part in the meeting in Beijing

For five days our teachers will lead master-classes for local theatre professionals.

Professional training lasts from 27 August to 22 September

Master classes became part of the National Arts Festival

This initiative was brought by the chair of the GITIS Board of Trustees Kirill Dmitriev.

Grigory Zaslavsky made a report at the meeting in Beijing.

GITIS teachers are heading to Almaty

GITIS co-hosts the conference in November

First meeting was held with CERDOTOLA executives

The director of the Ballet Academy of Senegal took on the honorary mission

An opera and drama labs were held during the festival “Slavic Bazaar in Vitebsk”

Professor A.Barmak directs the show for the National Drama Theater of Belarus

Master classes on acting at lake Issyk Kul

New cooperation between GITIS and the University of Banja Luka

Directing faculty students participate at the International Theatre Lab

GITIS and Mimar Sinan Fine Art University present the new project

GITIS students presented the show at the State Youth Theatre named after Baken Kydykeeva in Bishkek

Information for non-Russian applicants

GITIS students and teachers are visiting Tunisia

Students of STA presented the show “Deling and Cixi”

3rd year students from New Delhi performed at the GITIS Theatre

Students share their thoughts after 10-days workshop

GITIS Theatre hosted the show.

Proud to see the work of a creative team of GITIS graduates on tour.

GITIS offered cooperation to the Theatre Academy and the Conservatory of Morocco.

The international festival of stage fencing “Silver Sword” named after N.V. Karpov.

Master’s students and graduates took the stage together with students of the Ballet Academy of the Grand Theatre.

Professor Maksim Valukin is leading master classes.

23 shows in 15 days! Check out the playbill.

QS World University launched Rankings by Subject 2024.

“The African political drama”, a new book by the “GITIS” publishing house was presented.

Celebrating March 27th

Sharing some highlights of our days at BRM 2024 behind the scene.

GITIS launches workshop for professional actors and students from February 18th to 28th in Petropavlovsk.

On March 13-14 teachers from five faculties will hold auditions in the Kazakh capital Astana: drama actor, musical theatre actor, make-up artist, theatre critic, production technology designer.

GITIS students are heading to India to perform at the 25th year of Bharat Rang Mahotsav — International Theatre Festival of India 2024.

The Baotou Art Theatre presented “The Proposal” by Anton Chekhov directed by GITIS graduate Zhao Guangyao.

1st scientific and practical conference of young scientists with international participation.
March 26, 2024
Moscow

GITIS launches auditions in the Republic of Kazakhstan the upcoming spring as our school deepens ties with the country.

As part of the festival, Ekaterina Granitova-Lavrovskaya, Dean of the Directing Department of GITIS, gave a number of master classes.

GITIS may become the main engine of creative education for Senegalese people.

The classes on dance teaching methodology were attended by teachers from all over Japan.

The festival is a platform for meeting and dialogue between the world’s largest theatre schools.

The festival will showcase 14 performances from various theater schools and theaters in cities such as Belgorod, Belgrade (Serbia), Vladivostok, Zarechny, Kazan, Moscow, New Delhi (India), St. Petersburg, Shanghai (China), and Yaroslavl. The festival aims to serve as a platform for dialogue and collaboration between major Russian and international theater schools.

From 7 to 15 November the Russian Institute of Theatre Arts (GITIS), which will bring together nine theatre schools from Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Russia and for the first time from Tajikistan.

GITIS celebrates anniversary

In October, GITIS rector Grigory Zaslavsky visited Senegal

The performances were in in Beijing and in Guilin

GITIS and Finis Terrae University agreed to develop cooperation and signed the Declaration of Intent in Santiago (Chile)

The main objective of their visit was to strengthen educational and creative connections between GITIS and Nigerian University

During the meeting between the rector of GITIS, Grigory Zaslavsky, and the rector of the State Institute of Arts and Culture of Uzbekistan, Eldor Shermanov, an agreement on cooperation in the fields of culture, education, and science was signed at GITIS

The first masterclasses by GITIS professors in Uzbekistan will take place from October 1st to October 10th at the State Institute of Arts and Culture of Uzbekistan as part of the International Cultural Project “Russian Seasons”

Representatives from 11 countries gathered on the shores of Lake Zerenda to immerse themselves in a ten-day training program under the guidance of the best instructors from the GITIS and leading creative universities in Kazakhstan

New international cooperation

Students from Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan, Armenia and Russia

GITIS and the National School of Drama of India extend the agreement on cooperation in the field of theater education

Russian Seasons - 2023

Admission of foreign students to Russian Institute of Theatre Arts (Academic Year 2023-2024)

International conference dedicated to the 160th anniversary of Konstantin Stanislavsky’s birth as part of the strategic academic leadership program “Priority-2030”

The magazine will have a video version and be released as a podcast

Vladimir Pankov has successfully recruited a group of Kyrgyz students at the Russian Institute of Theatre Arts (GITIS)

GITIS professors run specialized workshops

International project for actors

In 2023 GITIS will form budget places for students from Kyrgyzstan.

International Festival

Results

About methods of theatrical education

GITIS international publishing project

Start of online courses in January

Foreigners from 10 countries entered GITIS

Results

Interview of GITIS graduate Lee Hyukjung from South Korea

Applications are being accepted

About methods of theatrical education

GITIS will hold masterclasses for actors and directors

Alumni and students of GITIS and other creative universities

Admission of foreign students to Russian Institute of Theatre Arts (Academic Year 2022-2023)

As part of Academy for musical theater T&M Nîmes 2022

Top-100 best universities in Performing Arts

International initiatives

GITIS graduate

For foreign students

Producing for Dance – 5 Producer Stories

Registration is open

New books and performances

About “The Stanislavsky system and practice of modern actor” online course

"STANISLAVSKY. METHOD"

For foreigner listeners

International Student Festival of Graduation Performances

Online course "Academy of Russian Opera"

A performance based on the Pushkin’s plays

At the Cairo International Gathering For University Theatre Festival

A performance based on the Chekhov ’s plays

Between Russia and Georgia

New international project in Azerbaijan

The best GITIS professors will give masterclasses on the Stanislavski system in the CIS countries and Europe

The XII International Festival will be held on October 16 and 17

GITIS Acting and Directing courses can be paid online by card or bank transfer

The result of the online course Academy of Russian Opera with GITIS

New international cooperation

Graduate from Acting faculty

GITIS students completed the academic year

Online course about the Stanislavsky system and practice of modern actor

Welcome to participate

How to submit an application to GITIS online

GITIS students and professors take part in the Summer School

GITIS laid bridge of friendship between Russia and Kazakhstan

Graduate from Faculty of Directing

For the first time in Russia

Show performed by Andrey Konchalovsky’s Workshop

The etude “Haiku” of directing faculty became the best

They will recruit students this year

Admission of foreign students to Russian Institute of Theatre Arts (Academic Year 2021-2022)

Сourse for opera and pop singers

For the first time in Russia

Graduate from Faculty of Directing

Meet GITIS at E:UTSA

New international cooperation

For foreigners

Graduate from Musical Theatre faculty

Graduate from Faculty of Directing

Winners will get the unique opportunity to study in GITIS

New international online-project

In online format

Production in UK theaters

Graduate from Faculty of History and Theory of Theatre and Criticism

Honorary mission

Public online lecture

Offer for international students

A course about the Lee Strasberg method

Students have drawn New Year postcards

For students of the National University of Theatre and Film “I. L. Karadzhalev”

Devoted to the 75th anniversary of victory in the Great Patriotic war

Theatre schools of the CIS countries will meet online

Congratulations to our friend and colleague

The Theatre Session is over

Foreign students have met with the professor of GITIS Dmitry Krymov

Foreign students have met with the rector of GITIS Grigory Zaslavsky

New international project

The festival was held in GITIS

The Preface to the collection was written by the Professor of GITIS Marina Litavrina

GITIS fully supports Budapest University of Theatre and Cinema

GITIS has started a new academic year

Read about GITIS on digital edition of the print supplement THE

General requirements for foreign applicants

Faculty of scenography examines works of applicants from Russia

GITIS has launched an admission campaign

Read about GITIS on THE website

Admission of foreign students to Russian Institute of Theatre Arts (Academic Year 2020-2021)

The dates of the admission campaign are being specified

Summer school for international students will take place in 2021

A unique show is based on a new play about GITIS history

The book is available at GITIS and in stores

We communicate with applicants online

Watch it on GITIS YouTube channel

COVID-19 affected the program of the Winter school for British students

The event will be held online

All the shows are canceled till the end of month

All the international festivals at GITIS are postponed

GITIS will host theatre schools of CIS countries

The course Russian Opera is now open for foreign students

They took part in the exhibition dedicated to Sergueï Eisenstein

With this play students celebrated the 95th anniversary of Leonid Zorin

Olga Lyubimova was appointed on Tuesday

Congratulations to Asker Berbekov!

Application to GITIS-fest is now open.

We’ve been hosted by Casa de Rusia.

Application for the 2020 Winter School is open.

The two institutions are examining the possibility to cooperate.

Mikhail Shvydkoy received the Order of the Rising Sun

The film got an award at Geneva International Film Festival.

GITIS teachers and students are visiting New Delhi.

Classes will be held at the Atalante Theatre from 11 to 24 November 2019.

GITIS students performed “Taming of the Shrew” in China’s capital.

This autumn we are hosting students from Beijing.

GITIS student has performed one of the leading roles in the movie.

Another meeting of Greek and Russian students at GITIS.

Students from the Alexander Zelverovich Theatre Academy studied in Moscow as a part of an exchange

A 4-days master class was held at the capital of Belarus

We thank the Black sea resort Sochi for hosting all the participants.

GITIS is happy to host guests from British school for an intense program.

“Monument of the future stars” will serve as a farewell to GITIS’ graduates

A wrap up of the unique10 days program for artists in Georgia.

They were awarded at the 30th Russian largest film festival “Kinotavr” that closed in Sochi.

Director Kantemir Balagov chose our student, young actress Victoria for one of the main roles.

Theater designer and director is working in Venice with his GITIS students.

The Moscow Times visited GITIS and The Boris Shchukin Theater Institute to learn more about the method of the world-renowned director.

Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (London) and The Boris Schukin Theatre Institute (Moscow) presented its works on the stage of GITIS Student Theatre.

Students from GITIS and The Central Academy of Drama open the International festival of theatre schools “Stanislavskiy. The beginning”.

GITIS and Liceu Conservatory (Conservatori del Liceu, Barcelona) are planning a joint project in 2020.

The second theatre festival of CIS countries “GITIS — Master class” took place from 15 — 20 March.

The contest is celebrating a big anniversary and presenting a big program.

Students from British East 15 Acting School have come to GITIS for a 4-weeks master-class.

GITIS and The Aleksander Zelwerowicz Academy of Dramatic Art started an educational exchange program.

After six months long restoration students are back to the historic stage.

A new program supporting young directors won a special grant from the Russian president.

GITIS presents its new English booklet that contains all necessary information about institute, its traditions and unique study programs.

The show “Freud”, a project of GITIS and Moscow’s theatre “Contemporary drama school”, is coming to Berlin in March

GITIS professor, dean of the Directing department Vladimir Baicher staged Shakespear’s “King Lear” in Theatrum theatre in Tallinn

GITIS is planning to organize summer school together with Azerbaijan State University of Culture & Arts in Baku (Azerbaijan) in 2019-2020.

We are celebrating a 140 years anniversary in 2018.

Artistic director of Volcano Theatre (Wales) Paul Davies came to GITIS on October 19th to meet with students

GITIS Rector Grigory Zaslavsky hold talks with President of The Central Academy of Drama Xu Xiang in Beijing on the margins of the Third session of World Theatre Education Alliance (WTEA).

Famous Australian director Elijah Moshinsky met with students of the Musical theatre faculty

Russian institute of Theatre Arts (GITIS) and Meritorious Autonomous University of Puebla (BUAP) held negotiations on cooperation on the margins of XIV Forum of Theatre Universities (FITU) in Puebla, Mexico.

A meeting of students and professors from the three major theatre universities of the former Soviet Union took place in the Belarusian capital of Minsk.

“Sobibor” by Konstantin Khabensky will represent Russia at the Oscars 2019 Academy Awards.

The Russian Institute of Theatre Arts has given a presentation of the project “Future Theatre Laboratory”.

Rusil Gatin, the Department of Variety Theatre graduate (M. Borisov’s workshop), who made his debut on the stage of Milan’s La Scala Theater last year, told the Business-Online newspaper about his studies at GITIS, work in Italian theaters and his way to become a parodist.

On June 19, in London GITIS principal Grigory Zaslavsky, dean of the Faculty of Acting Lucy Skilbeck and director of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art Edward Kemp took part in the negotiations.

Great news — GITIS took the second place in The Best Educational Programs of Innovative Russia project ranking among the culture and arts universities of Russia.

Forbes magazine compiled the first ranking of Russian universities in order to assess the quality of Russian education and to find out which universities graduate young people with entrepreneurial streak, and even those who can later join the Forbes list or become a part of the Russian political elite.

From June 23 to June 30, 2018 in the village of Shekvetili (Georgia) the International Festival of the Acting and Stage Speech Summer School is taking place, involving GITIS students from the Faculty of Acting (V. Andreev’s workshop) and Faculty of Producing (Y. Orlov’s and A. Fokin’s workshop).

Samal Yeslyamova, GITIS Faculty of Directing graduate (workshop of E. Kamenkovich and D. Krymov), winner of the 71st Cannes Film Festival Best Actress Award told Izvestia newspaper about her admission to GITIS, her teachers and what GITIS school gave her.

Kultura TV channel broadcasted new episode of the program In Search of Real Russia, presented by Dimitris Georgiadis, GITIS Faculty of Directing graduate. This time, Dimitris drove through the Vologda region.

Today, in Kazan closes the 5th Nauruz International Theater Forum, which gathered theatrical groups from all over the world.

Samal Yeslyamova, laureate of the 71st Cannes Film Festival, who graduated from the Faculty of Directing (workshop of E. Kamenkovich and D. Krymov), visited GITIS today. The actress took a walk in her institute and met GITIS principal Grigory Zaslavsky.

Freud, collective performance of the School of Modern Play theatre and the Russian Institute of Theatrical Art — GITIS took part in the International Theater Festival in Kolkata (India).

On May 23, at the Pushkin Institute of Russian Language the solemn opening of the Cyril and Methodius Slavic Languages and Cultures Festival took place.

On May 22, in a reading room of the GITIS library, within the framework of the Producing Faculty Cycle of Meetings with Outstanding Artists, a creative meeting with Natalia Romanova, Cirque du Soleil director general in Russia, took place.

From May 8 to May 10, 2018 in the capital of Morocco, Rabat, the Times Higher Education (THE) summit was held.

Just before the entrance exams at Russian universities, MIR 24 TV channel released an interesting material about the foreigners studying in Russia, documents they need to collect for admission and how to get a state-funded place.

On the Artificial selection talk show on Radio Culture GITIS graduate and teacher Oleg Glushkov talked to GITIS principal Grigoriy Zaslavskiy about the forthcoming premiere of War and Peace at GITIS, his work on Stilyagi (Hipsters) musical on Broadway, staging in Norway and his other performances.

Russian Information Agency — RIA Novosti — took an interview from GITIS international students: Alya Hanin (Slovenia), Georgios Kutlis (Greece), and Daniela Petkovich (Serbia).

“Loveless” — the film directed by GITIS alumnus Andrey Zvyagintsev — got short-listed for Oscar Best Foreign Language Film nomination.

On November 12, Ruzil Gatin — a GITIS graduate — made his first appearance on La Scala stage in Milan (Ruzil graduated from GITIS Variety Department, prof. Borisov class).

Russian State Institute of Cinematography — VGIK hosts its International Student Film and TV Festival in Moscow!

On October 25 GITIS students from Kamenkovich and Krimov directing class played King Lear at the WTEA 2017 International Theatre Festival in Beijing.

Russian Institute of Theater Arts — GITIS is a well-recognized brand, so no wonder that some dishonest people are trying to exploit it. Here is an example of a fake GITIS certificate signed by a fake professor.

GITIS Rector — Grigory Zaslavsky — during his brief visit to China signed an agreement with Central Academy of Drama in Beijing, that hosted a regular session of World Theatre Education Alliance.

On October 11, 2017 GITIS Rector Grigory Zaslavsky met with a highly representative delegation from Vietnam.

Second-year students of Leonid Heifetz Directing class went to Tallinn as a second phase of student exchange program between GITIS and Estonian Academy of Music and Theater.