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The Russian Institute of Theatre Arts (GITIS) (Russian: Российский институт театрального искусства – ГИТИС, romanized: Rossiyskiy institut teatralnogo iskusstva – GITIS) is the largest and oldest independent theatrical arts school in Russia. Located in Moscow, the school was founded on 22 ...
- Stanislavski is the father of most modern acting techniques. Whether you are “Meisner” or “Method” or draw influence from the teachings of Stella Adler, Uta Hagen or others, you are likely studying an offshoot of Stanislavski’s work.
- Stanislavski was not his birth name. Konstantin Stanislavski was born Konstantin Sergeievich Alekseiev. The name “Stanislavski” was actually a stage name that he derived from a retired Polish actor, in order to save his family name from embarrassment, as he performed in risqué or hastily thrown-together theater productions.
- He was a born actor. He began performing in plays at age 7. He created his own circus, “Konstanzo Alekseyev’s Circus” and later a puppet theater. At the age of 14, his father, a wealthy businessman, turned a wing of their home into a theater for Stanislavski to perform his plays.
- Stanislavski was a drama school drop-out. The father of most modern acting techniques was, of all things, a drama school drop-out. At age 21, he dropped out of the Imperial Dramatic School of Moscow, because he was disenchanted with the techniques he was being taught and felt they deprived him of his own individuality.
The "fine arts" classes, founded in 1773 at the Moscow Orphanage, also supplied personnel for the Petrovsky Theatre, mostly ballet. The Moscow Imperial Theatre School later grew out of these classes. In 1789-1805 the theatre passed from hand to hand, from one owner and manager to another and back.
The best known plays of the new realistic school were those of Aleksandr Ostrovsky, Nikolay Gogol, and Ivan Turgenev. Until 1883 the imperial theatres, under strict government controls, had a monopoly on productions in Russia’s two major cities, Moscow and St. Petersburg.
School-Studio of Moscow Art Theatre. In 1943, based at the Art Theatre, the Moscow Art Theater institute of higher education School-Studio named after Vl. I. Nemirovich-Danchenko was established.
THE MOSCOW ART THEATRE. 565 School of the Moscow Philharmonic under the direction of Nemirovich-Danchenko. When the two men finally came together in 1897, in a conversation that lasted through an afternoon and the whole of the following night, a new theatre was born. They were an ideal combination. Stanislavsky was primarily and
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In 1806 the Petrovsky Theatre School was reorganized into the Moscow Imperial Theatre College for the training of opera, ballet and theatre artists and theatre orchestra musicians (in 1911, it became the Moscow School of Ballet).
