GITIS turned 140 Years this week!
GITIS is celebrating its 140th birthday this week! Its history began on October 22nd 1878 when Russian pianist and conductor Petr Shostakovsky opened the Music and Drama School in Moscow. Its present name known throughout the world GITIS got in 1922.
Today GITIS is a professional educational institution training in every discipline of the art form: acting, design, directing, musical theatre, ballet-master, variety theatre, history and criticism, theatre management and production. During the 140 years representatives of different schools have been teaching in the institute. Here are the extracts of the interviews our professors gave to different media outlets this week.
“When I applied for GITIS I had a big dream to become teacher, professor at GITIS. Though I pronounced ‘professor’ incorrectly then. I was sure that teaching in this university would mean happiness”, says GITIS graduate and professor, Doctor of Art studies, former Minister of culture Mikhail Shidkoy.
“GITIS professors have made institute history and glory”, adds Doctor of Art Studies, Chairman of the Shakespeare Commission of the Russian Academy of Sciences, GITIS professor Alexey Bartoshevich.
“The most important thing is a conversation. A conversation with students might look like an ephemeral work, but it the one that stays with all of us”, empasizes class master at the Theatre history faculty, Doctor of Art Studies Vidas Silunas.
“Our great, wonderful teachers gave us a lot. They taught us all the good things we know, but bad things too”, remarks GITIS principal, a graduate of Theatre art and criticism faculty Grigory Zaslavsky.
The institute has received a lot of congratulations and nice letters from its famous graduates this week. We are thankful to all of them!
