Introduction

The Russian State Institute of Performing Arts, formerly known as the St. Petersburg State Academy of Theatre, is located in St. Petersburg, Russia. It is the oldest and largest drama academy in Russia and the largest performing arts education and research center in Europe. It is known as a national treasure-level art academy in Russia and a European palace-level art academy along with the Repin State Academy of Fine Arts and the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory.

Overview

The school has about 1,500 students from Russia and different countries every year. It has 7 departments and 18 teaching and research offices, and has several departments such as the Department of Performing Arts and Directing, the Department of Stage Variety and Musical. The departments have dozens of professional directions and related graduate and doctoral programs.

History and Establishment Time

Founded in 1779 In 1989, its predecessor was the Leningrad Academy of Drama. It has experienced the transformation and development from the realistic tradition of the Imperial Drama School to the Meyerhold working method. Today, the dominant teaching purpose is based on the Stanislavsky system.

School Strength

Teaching Staff: Well-known professors with many titles of Russian Honorary Artists, such as Nikolai Bisochynsky and Natalia Kolodova.

Teaching Achievements: It has trained many famous performing artists active on the world stage, such as Sergei Martinson and Nikolai Cherkasov. Many graduates of the school have become famous directors and actors in China.

Nature of the School

A National Higher Academy of Arts directly under the Russian Ministry of Education.

Educational Philosophy

Taking the Stanislavsky system as the basic education system, it emphasizes the primary position of actors on the stage, focuses on cultivating students' creative initiative and real emotional experience, and combines Meyerhold's "biomechanical method" and other modern teaching methods, organically combining traditional training methods with contemporary innovative concepts.

Key laboratories and disciplines

Key disciplines: performance, directing, drama history and criticism, screenwriting, ballet performance, drama music, etc.

Key laboratories: The school has a creative laboratory and a research laboratory, the New Perspective Theater, which is used to organize annual international conferences to explore issues such as drama theory and history.

Department

There are performance departments, directing departments, drama history and criticism departments, screenwriting departments, ballet performance departments, drama music departments, comprehensive arts departments, set design departments, stage technology departments, etc.

Ranking

It is one of the top five performing arts schools in the world's drama academies.

Expenses

For Chinese students, the performance department is about RMB 1.9 million, the directing department is about RMB 2.9 million, the set design department is about RMB 3.26 million, and the drama music department is about RMB 1.85 million, including one year of preparatory fees and five years of tuition.

Campus environment

The campus is located at 34 Mokhovaya, St. Petersburg, with two ancient buildings. The college has a gorgeous lounge, white marble staircase, black box chamber, classrooms, student presentation theater "White Hall", canteen and library. The school dormitory is located near the campus, usually 2-3 people, and the accommodation fee is about 2,000 yuan/month.