ITI/UNESCO Chair of Theatre
 
 
The ITI/UNESCO Chair "Theatre and Culture of Civilisations" was set up in 1998 within the framework of the UNESCO Chairs Programme, by UNESCO and the International Theatre Institute.

Under the direction of Prof. Corneliu Dumitriu – appointed by the Executive Council – the Chair works in close partnership with the ITI Theatre Education Committee, the ITI General Secretariat, as well as with the ITI network of National Centres and Cooperating Members. The ITI/UNESCO Chair is based in Romania and operates with the support of Romanian governmental authorities and institutions.

The objectives of the ITI/UNESCO Chair are "to offer a means of coordinating research, documentation and publication activities in the area of theatre and film education, initiating and organizing workshops, festivals and international co-productions between theatre schools and academies and to serve as a ‘centre of excellence’ for postgraduate and advanced training."

 
Workshops

The ITI/UNESCO Chair’s international workshops for Tertiary Theatre Schools are an essential component of the International Theatre Institute's mission, as well as of ITI's Framework Agreement with UNESCO.

Activities conducted throughout the workshops include:

• Contributing to “exchanging information, ideas and teaching methods in the field of dramatic art”
• Contributing to “improving actor training” by facilitating encounters between young performing artists and their teachers, enabling them to show work developed under a common theme, to debate together and to learn from one another
• Gathering within an international workshop, and around a common theme, young artists at the beginning of their careers, to help them understand, appreciate and exchange with others
• Enabling participants to experiment the links which bring together artists beyond their differences, and on the basis of a shared artistic and professional identity, to build deep and durable friendships between artists of different countries
• Getting schools from different countries to work on major theatre forms (tragedy, comedy) and on the works of great universal dramatists from different languages and cultures – Shakespeare, Molière, Chekov, Lope de Vega etc.
 

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