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Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education "Russian Institute of Theater Arts - GITIS"

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No. 01781 valid indefinitely from 11/23/2015

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No. 01876 is valid from 04/27/2016 to 04/27/2022

Monitoring results of the Ministry of Education and Science for RUTI-GITIS

Index	18 year	17 year	16 year	15 year	14 year
Performance indicator (out of 6 points)	4	5	5	6	6
Average Unified State Examination score for all specialties and forms of study	70.83	68.36	67.49	65.40	67.14
Average Unified State Examination score of those enrolled on the budget	73.22	70.89	68.58	67.74	67.71
Average Unified State Examination score of those enrolled on a commercial basis	69.18	68.68	65.76	64.54	66.83
Average minimum Unified State Exam score for all specialties for full-time students enrolled	50.92	53.33	51.00	49.17	55.51
Number of students	1657	1549	1478	1570	1491
Full-time department	978	908	840	895	876
Part-time department	0	0	0	0	0
Extramural	679	641	638	675	615
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ABOUT RUTI-GITIS

The Russian University of Theater Arts is a university where students study the most creative specialties from the best teachers who have vast scientific and professional experience, which they strive to pass on to their students.

Education at RUTI-GITIS

At the university, students can receive higher education at the faculties:

acting, where future actors of dramatic theater or cinema are trained;
the director's department, where future drama directors or circus directors are trained;
musical theater, where future directors or artists of musical theater are trained, as well as sound engineers for concert programs and cultural events;
theater studies, where bachelors are trained in the specialty of theater studies;
choreographer's school, where bachelors are trained in the direction of Choreographic art, divided by type - choreographer or pedagogical;
variety stages, where future artists or stage directors are trained;
production, where they train performing arts producers or managers for concert organizations and theaters;
scenography, where theater production designers are trained.

Students can study both full-time and part-time. Upon admission to the university, applicants take entrance exams, each of which is assessed on a 100-point system. Those applicants who score the highest total number of points are enrolled in the university on a budgetary basis, the rest - on a contract basis. Students who are enrolled in budget-funded places will receive a scholarship if they are successful in their studies.

To successfully pass all entrance exams, applicants can enroll in preparatory courses that are open at each faculty. The best teachers of the university will prepare students for all exams. Training in preparatory courses is paid.

At the university, you can also enroll in a master's or graduate school, where students can write and successfully defend a master's or candidate's dissertation.

After completing their education, students receive a state diploma.

Features of student training at RUTI-GITIS

Training at the acting department is conducted both by directors and actors who are still working in their specialty, and by representatives of similar professions who are completely devoted to teaching. Among the teachers of the acting department there are a lot of people who have become real stars of cinema and theater - A. Papanov, V. Andreev, D. Pevtsov, L. Bogdan, E. Yakovleva and many others.

The directing department has 9 workshops, each of which has its own teaching team, wholly dedicated to teaching students the art of directing. Training in circus directing includes mandatory study of specially designed courses in the following disciplines: children's circus performance, dramaturgy of a circus act, work on a performance, as well as practical mastery of clowning, gymnastics or acrobatics. The preparation of a drama director includes two parts - theoretical, in which he acquires knowledge about directing, and practical, in which students master acting skills in order to then better understand actors.

At the Faculty of Musical Theater, students are closely involved in the study of solfeggio, working with a conductor, history and theory of music, and also master vocal skills, which are taught by teachers working in the Department of Vocal Arts. But in addition to vocal art, students of the faculty also master acting skills, studying stage speech, movement, dance and much more.

Graduates of the Faculty of Theater Studies after graduation become historians, critics, and journalists in the field of performing arts, show business and television. At the faculty, students receive a humanitarian education, studying the history of music, literature, fine arts and general history, as well as special disciplines in the theory of drama, the history of foreign and Russian theater, the theory and history of criticism, and others.

During the existence of the choreographic department, more and more new teaching methods were constantly introduced there, and now new disciplines and curricula are being introduced into the learning process. At the moment, students of the faculty are studying dance and musical literature, images of the classical heritage, the psychology of artistic creativity, composition and methodology of duet dance, and other disciplines. In addition, foreign and domestic choreography masters are constantly invited to the faculty, who conduct master classes and seminars for students.

The University's Variety Faculty is also constantly improving its curriculum with the aim of creatively renewing the national variety and art scene. To do this, students of the faculty study general humanities, as well as all possible pop genres - such as pop-jazz vocals, step, jazz and many others.

Students of the production department combine theory and practice during their studies. They study general humanitarian, socio-economic, art history disciplines, management, production, computer technology, the legal foundations of cultural activity and other special disciplines. And then students of the faculty are required to apply the acquired knowledge in practice in theaters, concert organizations and production companies in Russia.

Students of the Faculty of Scenography study painting, drawing and set design under the guidance of People's Artist of Russia S. F. Morozov, artist of the Culture TV channel O. G. Morozov, member of the Russian Academy of Arts N. I. Nesterov and other outstanding teachers.

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Russian Academy of Theater Arts - GITIS

The history of the creation of the Russian Academy of Theater Arts dates back to 1878, when, under the patronage of the Society of Lovers of Musical and Dramatic Art, the Visiting Music School was opened in Moscow. Already in 1883 it was renamed the Music and Drama School.

In 1918, the school was transformed into the Musical Drama Institute, and two years later into the State Institute of Musical Drama. In September 1922, after merging with the State Higher Theater Workshops under the leadership of Meyerhold, it was transformed into the State Institute of Theater Arts. In April 2011, GITIS was awarded university status.

Today, RATI GITIS is a higher theater educational institution, one of the largest in Europe and the world. Location: Moscow. The university has 8 faculties where students study in all theater specialties:

Acting
Musical theater
Choreographer's
Director's
Scenography
Producer
Variety art
Theater studies

At the acting department there is a department of acting skills, which trains drama theater and film artists. Its team consists of active actors and directors, and those who are already completely dedicating themselves only to teaching work.

You can study at the faculty both full-time and part-time. Drama theater actors who already have at least 2 years of work experience can study in the correspondence department. Duration of training - 4 years. Actors are trained here who will later be able to work in regional and republican theaters of Russia, as well as students from foreign countries, including South Korea, Israel, the USA and others.

The Department of Acting at GITIS is the center of scientific and methodological work on acting in the country. Under her, together with the Faculty of Musical Theater and Directing, a Scientific and Practical Center on the Problems of Acting and Directing was created. The purpose of its creation was to organize intra-university and inter-university conferences on the problems of acting skills, as well as the publication of books on the methodology of acting: teachers of the department publish numerous monographs and collective collections.

Directing department of GITIS

Directors for circus and theater, as well as theater and film actors are trained here. The Department of Circus Directing trains only circus directors. Training is conducted on a budgetary basis (free of charge), the duration of training is 5 years.

Only directors are trained in the workshops to work in the circus. Duration of training - 5 years. An average of 6 people are recruited annually for the full-time budget department, and the same number is recruited for the correspondence department.

Faculty of Musical Theater RATI GITIS

This faculty has no analogues in the entire theater world. Here they do the most exciting thing - training actor-singers and directors called to work in a variety of genres of musical and stage art. At the Faculty of Musical Theater of GITIS there are departments of stage speech, directors and actors of musical theatre, vocals, stage movement and dance. The training program includes a large number of different disciplines:
acting skill,
vocals (both individual lessons and ensemble singing),
stage dance (classical, folk, historical, modern, jazz dance),
musical dramaturgy,
fencing,
solfeggio,
piano.

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About the university

The history of successive educational institutions, transformed as a result into RATI, began on October 22, 1878, when the “P. Shostakovsky Music School for Visitors” was opened, which was under the patronage of the Society of Lovers of Musical and Dramatic Art.

In 1883 decree. The society was renamed the Moscow Philharmonic Society, and the music school received the status of the Music and Drama School under it (clause 2 of the charter of the Moscow Philharmonic Society, approved 08/9/1883). Both the School and the Society as a whole were under the patronage and tutelage of Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich. Subsequently, the School was equalized in rights to higher educational institutions - conservatories, which was recorded in a new charter approved by the Emperor at the request of Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna.

The drama classes of the Music and Drama School were headed by famous actors, teachers and theater figures: in 1883-1889. A. Yuzhin, in 1889-1891. O. Pravdin, in 1891-1901 Vl. I. Nemirovich-Danchenko.

Subsequently famous actors and directors graduated from the school at different times; for example, among the graduates of the School in 1898 were Knipper, Savitskaya, Meyerhold, Munt, Snegirev and others. In 1898, graduates of the Music and Drama School and participants of the Society of Art and Literature united into one troupe, laying the foundation for the Moscow Art Public Theater (later the Moscow Art Theater ).

This is how Vl recalled it. I. Nemirovich-Danchenko about his 10 years of work at Shostakovsky’s school:

“I owe a lot to the Philharmonic. There I strengthened myself in my stage tasks. And from there came the Art Theater. The founder of the Philharmonic, Shostakovsky, had great dignity as a director: he valued individuality, guessed it and gave it conditions for free growth. While in the lush then, in a firmly established, strict Conservatory, the student was quickly constrained by the rules and requirements of certain dogmas - in the Philharmonic they already knew that swaddling a child was harmful. True, this often led to some anarchic debauchery, but it was not so difficult to fight this. But try, "experimenting," achieving something different from what was "highly approved" could be confident that you would find support in the director. I came to teach while learning, I came with the goal that in a year, as an acting teacher, I could replace an actor like Yuzhin, and I myself had neither extensive acting nor stage teaching experience.In my youth I played as an amateur, did amateur performances, by this time I was a fashionable playwright, and when I staged my plays, I directed them myself. For students who were looking for acting authority, this was not enough. It would probably be impossible to gain their trust without top support. And at the Philharmonic I received all the conditions for my quest. Do we know, for example, that Ibsen was first heard on the Russian stage for real, as a social poet, at the Philharmonic's student performance in "Hope", despite the fact that before that "Nora" had already been performed in Moscow by both the famous Duse and gorgeous Russian – Azagarova.

This, of course, is the subject of detailed memoirs to tell about the conditions in which my, it seems, ten-year work at the Philharmonic took place: everyday features, artistic individuality, the boundaries of school opportunities, the height of artistic tasks, the emergence of groups, etc., etc. In these lines, I only want to sincerely remember this institution dear to my heart. And my deepest connection with him: from here (as from the Society of Art Lovers - the Alekseev-Stanislavsky circle), the Art Theater will be born... Dreams, burning, daring - what other strong words are there for these concepts - the fight for your “new” ", self-sacrifice, overcoming, bitter failures and joyful holiday victories! Working together, connecting with love, friendship, devotion, an indescribable change of images and episodes! How many of you are not familiar with these precious experiences of aspirations, struggles, defeats and victories? These are the experiences I have with the Philharmonic."

In 1902, the Music and Drama School moved to the old mansion of the Soldatenkov family on Maly Kislovsky Lane, where the RATI is located to this day.

On October 24, 1903, the “Charter of the Musical and Drama School of the Moscow Philharmonic Society, under the august patronage of Her Imperial Highness Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna,” was approved. According to the Charter, the School was part of the department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs:

Famous figures of Russian musical culture taught in the music classes of the Musical Drama School: P. Shostakovsky, R. Ehrlich, S. Koussevitzky, K. Erdeli. Composer V. Kalinnikov and singer L. Sobinov graduated from the school, making the glory of Russian musical culture. The tradition of drama classes to end their studies with a performance was also adopted by music classes, where opera performances were staged, as well as student symphony orchestra programs. The skill of the young musicians allowed P. Sarasate, S. Rachmaninov, L. Sobinov, F. Chaliapin, A. Arensky and others to perform with this orchestra.

Since 1918, the Music and Drama School has undergone a number of reorganizations and renamings due to changes in the state education system. So, in 1918 it was renamed the Music and Drama Institute, and then in 1920 the State Institute of Musical Drama (GIMDr) with a drama department. Drama department in 1921-1925. headed by A. Petrovsky; Dramatic art at the department was taught by A. Zonov, N. Aksagarsky, A. Chabrov, A. Geirot, L. Lurie. Inheriting the traditions of the “scientific” classes of the school, in 1921-1925, along with such subjects as diction, voice production, dance, fencing, the history of drama and the history of literature were taught. The course of study at the State Institute of Mechanical Engineering was planned for 7 years, of which 2 years were allocated to a technical school, 3 years to a university, 2 years to “free workshops” (i.e., practice).

In August 1922, the State Institute of Musical Drama was united with the State Higher Theater Workshops, led by Vs. Meyerhold. It was this association that was named the State Institute of Theater Arts - GITIS, the official date of its formation was September 17, 1922. According to the plan, GITIS was supposed to unite the three most important branches of theatrical art: drama, opera and choreography.

The Drama Faculty, headed by Prof. A. Petrovsky, from the very beginning, consisted of two departments - theater-instructing and directing. Training at the faculty was conducted in the workshops: Sun. Meyerhold, N. Malko (musical drama), B. Ferdinandov (experimental heroic theater), A. Petrovsky, N. Foregger, N. Aksagarsky. There were national workshops - Latvian, Jewish, Armenian.

In June 1923, the State Practical Institute of Choreography (GPIC) with drama ballet, synthetic dance, pantomime and classical dance workshops joined GITIS as a faculty. Thus, three faculties were formed: drama (headed by A. Petrovsky); opera (led by K. Sarajev), and choreographic (N. Rakhmanov).

In 1924, by Decree of the Council of People's Commissars, the existing theater institutes in Moscow and St. Petersburg were closed “due to shortcomings in theater education,” but GITIS was still allowed to graduate students in an accelerated manner.

The circle and club movement, which was actively developing in those years, was the main incentive for the subsequent creation of theater instruction courses on the basis of the already disbanded GITIS. In 1925, the Central Technical School of Theater Arts, CETETIS, was created, a four-year educational institution designed to “educate highly qualified masters.” Two departments were opened in CETETIS - music-drama (opera) and drama, and four specialties were approved: acting, directing, club-instructing and teaching. The teachers of CETETIS remain professors and teachers of GITIS; the number of students, compared to GITIS, has doubled.

In 1926, on the basis of graduates of GITIS and CETETIS, the Musical Drama Theater was formed in Zamoskvorechye, in whose performances students of the institute also participated.

The curriculum of CETETIS is a valuable historical testimony to the nature of the educational process that took place there:

1) Disciplines common to all departments:

(a) public items:
political economy,
soviet constitution,
history of class struggle and the CPSU(b),
historical materialism,
sociology of arts,
anatomy and physiology,
reflexology,
foreign languages (Italian, German, French);

(b) art history subjects:
theater studies,
theater history,
the latest theatrical trends,
history of costume;

(c) performing arts:
primary elements of stage action,
stage exercises,
stage practice based on theatrical art,
production workshops (practice for opera and drama),
facial expressions and makeup;

(d) word and speech:
speech technique,
speech music,
voice production;

(e) movement:
physical education (acrobatics and fencing),
gymnastics and games,
rhythm, dance;

(e) musical items:
compulsory piano,
music diploma based on choral singing.

2) Special disciplines in the drama department:

(a) art history subjects:
dramaturgy,
poetry and analysis of literary forms.

3) Special disciplines at the club-instructor department:

(a) public items:
trade union movement,
cultural work of trade unions;

(b) club business:
clubbing,
methodology of working circles,
practice in clubs;

In general, CETETIS marks an important stage in the formation of the Russian directing school, since within its framework an independent club and instructor department was formed for the first time (in the 1927-28 academic year), and in the drama department, a series of lectures on directing was introduced.

The logical conclusion of this process was the opening of the directing and pedagogical faculty on the basis of the directing and club department of CETETIS on September 15, 1930. The faculty began to train stage directors (heads of professional theaters, large workers' clubs and palaces of culture), acting teachers (for technical schools, workers' faculties, state studios, advanced theater courses) and instructors-methodologists (i.e., theater workers of the regional and regional scale, art houses, amateur theaters, trams and art bases). This was the world's first experience in professional training for directors; RATI-GITIS is still a recognized leader in this field.

In general, the curriculum of CETETIS speaks of a wide range of disciplines taught, including subjects not only of a special, but also of a general humanities cycle (even if these subjects seem not quite common today). It is not surprising, therefore, that already two years after the creation of CETETIS, it became clear that both in terms of the teaching staff and the quality of the education given there, CETETIS had outgrown the framework of a technical school set for it, and had reached the level of a higher educational institution. Back in 1928, at the celebrations dedicated to the 50th anniversary of theater education in Russia, this was noted in the anniversary speech of the People's Commissar of Education Lunacharsky, and the beginning of the 30s became a time of lively discussion in theater and pedagogical circles about the form appropriate for a theater university (“thea”) -university").

On August 2, 1931, the resolution of the Council of People's Commissars of the RSFSR "On the reorganization of the art education system in the RSFSR" was published, which regulated the activities of art higher educational institutions and workers' faculties, and on October 1 of the same year, by decision of the Council of People's Commissars, a theater university was created, which received the name already familiar to everyone - GITIS.

The newspaper “Soviet Art” (10/13/1931) in an article entitled “GITIS in the corridor. The theater university opened in the smoking room” talked about this event as follows: “A theater university opened in the rehearsal room of the Chamber Theater. The opening took place without any “pomp”, the usual in these cases. No one greeted the newborn GITIS. There were no addresses or congratulations. The director of the new university, Comrade Loginov, declared GITIS open. Students, seated on chairs and windows of the cramped room, listened to reports from GITIS leaders and went to classes. Classes were held in corridor and in the smoking room of the Chamber Theater. Thus passed this “historic day of the opening of the world’s first theater university.”

In 1931, for the first time in Europe, GITIS began university training of specialists in the field of organizing theater business - a director's department was opened, which existed until 1939. In 1931, a theater studies department was organized with departments of the history of Russian and Western European theater.

For another three years after its second opening, GITIS existed as part of the Theater Combine (Teakombinat), combining old and new educational structures: (a) GITIS - a higher educational institution with the faculties of directing, pedagogical and instructional, theater studies and administrative and economic; (b) TSETETIS - technical school, where now only actors were trained in the drama and music-drama departments; (c) Thearabfak.

In July 1935, the Teakombinat was again transformed into the State Institute of Theater Arts with three faculties: directing (with three-year training), directing (with four-year training), and acting (with four-year training). During these years, such famous theater figures as S. Birman, L. Baratov, B. Mordvinov, E. Saricheva, B. Sushkevich, N. Zbrueva, L. Leonidov, M. Tarkhanov, V. Sakhnovsky, O. taught at GITIS. Pyzhova, B. Bibikov, O. Androvskaya, I. Raevsky, V. Orlov, A. Lobanov, I. Anisimova-Wulf, G. Konsky, F. Kaverin, P. Leslie, M. Astangov, I. Sudakov, Yu. Zavadsky. It was during these years that large-scale training of national studios was launched, which exists in a wide variety of forms to this day.

The pre-war history of GITIS reflected the social life of the country, trying on forms that were sometimes difficult to compatible with theater and the theatrical educational process. Thus, information has been preserved that in the spring of 1938, the GITIS team proposed organizing an all-Union competition between art educational institutions and called for “... to fight for exemplary and timely implementation of the curriculum, independence of creative work of students, exemplary conduct of educational and industrial practice, organization of at the end of the year, final showings of the best works, exemplary conduct of the new recruitment." In response to this appeal, K. S. Stanislavsky wrote: “Dear comrades, the initiative you made in organizing socialist competition is a necessary and useful thing. I warmly welcome your initiative. Our country needs well-trained creative personnel. Socialist competition should help us overcome difficulties in work and improve the quality of study. Our studio accepts your challenge and joins the competition."

On the eve of June 22, 1941, students took exams and tests for the spring test and examination session of the 1940-1941 academic year, but the outbreak of the Great Patriotic War crossed out a lot in their student life.

In September-October 1941, classes at GITIS were temporarily suspended. In empty classrooms, only front-line brigades rehearsed. On October 23, a passenger train carrying GITIS students left Moscow for Saratov. Those who arrived from Moscow were accommodated in the dormitory of the Saratov Medical Institute, but the students studied in the premises of the art school. A group of students from the directing department joined the acting department.

The front-line theater GITIS, formed from graduates of the acting and directing departments in the summer of 1942 in Saratov, also contributed to the movement of front-line theaters.

The theater performed near Moscow, on the Kalinin, Volkhov, Karelian, First Baltic, First Belorussian, Second Belorussian fronts, playing the play “A Guy from Our City” 146 times, “Night of Errors” 160 times, 47 times a composition specially made based on the play by N. Pogodin "Man with a Gun", 139 - "Honeymoon", 56 - "The Marriage of Balzaminov", 34 - "So It Will Be", thousands of times - vaudevilles, sketches, constantly updated concert programs. On May 3, 1945, the Gitisovites in defeated Berlin gave their last performance for the liberating soldiers. having worthily completed a four-year journey of incredibly difficult front-line roads. During the 1,418 days of the war, the theater gave more than 1,500 performances.

The director and director of the First Front Theater of the WTO was a graduate of GITIS, who returned from the front after being wounded, A. Goncharov. Graduate V. Nevzorov, who returned from the front after numerous wounds, worked as the director of the Front-line Theater of the WTO. A graduate of the directing department, B. Golubovsky, worked as the chief director at the Komsomolsk-Front Theater of GITIS, who then organized the Front Theater of Miniatures "Ogonyok". Graduates, students, and teachers of the institute fought on many fronts. Many were awarded the highest military awards, including the star of the Hero of the USSR, which was posthumously awarded to N. Kachuevskaya.

In the post-war years, GITIS vigorously expanded, new faculties appeared. On August 5, 1946, the directing department came up with a new initiative - three departments were opened at the faculty: opera, directing, and ballet. The opera department was first transformed into a department of musical theater directors, then on its basis the department of musical theater was created. Its founders were: I. M. Tumanov, M. P. Maksakova, P. M. Pontryagin.

In the fall of 1946, the Department of Choreography was created. The department was headed by R.V. Zakharov. His ideas were supported and helped to implement them by A. V. Shatin, L. I. Lavrovsky, Yu. A. Bakhrushin, N. I. Tarasov, T. S. Tkachenko, A. Tseytlin, M. V. Vasilyeva-Rozhdestvenskaya.

Since 1958, the Educational Theater has been operating at GITIS, known for many of its productions and playing a vital role in training students in all theater specialties.

In 1964, an experimental course of variety directors was recruited at the directing department, and 3 years later, in April 1968, the department of directing variety and mass performances was organized; finally, in 1973, the variety department opened. The founder of the variety department - and formerly the course leader and head. The department at the directing department was I. G. Sharoev.

In 1966, the first intake of part-time students took place at the department of circus directors, and in 1967 F. G. Bardian headed the department of circus directors at the directing department. In 1973, a full-time department was opened, and in 1975, the Department of Circus Arts was created. Among the graduates of the department are such masters as V. Averyanov, E. Bernadsky, Y. Biryukov, A. Kalmykov; People's Artists of the USSR - L. A. Shevchenko, V. A. Shevchenko, M. M. Zapashny. V. V. Golovko; People's Artists of Russia - L. L. Kostyuk, A. N. Nikolaev, V. Shemshur. Such masters as V. Krymko, B. Bresler, M. Zolotnikov, M. Mestechkin, E. Lagovsky worked at the department. Currently, the Department of Circus Arts is headed by Doctor of Art History, Professor M. I. Nemchinsky.

In 1974, the production faculty found a second life, setting itself the goal of forming highly qualified managers of a wide profile - not only for theaters, but also for television, show business, cinema, and the circus. In 1992, the Faculty of Scenography was opened.

In 1991, GITIS was awarded the status of an academy, and the Institute was renamed the Russian Academy of Theater Arts - GITIS.

The traditions of the Academy are in continuity. The basic principle of “student-teacher-student” is the most important in the selection of teaching staff; Therefore, many teachers of the Academy today are graduates of RATI-GITIS from different years.

Today RATI-GITIS is integrated into the world system of theater education. Its partners are theater schools in the UK (Middlesex University, London Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Guildford Theater School), France (National Conservatory of Dramatic Art in Paris, National Higher School of Theater Arts in Lyon), Holland (Theater Academy in Amsterdam) , Germany (International Theater Center in Berlin), Israel (Beit Zvi Theater School in Tel Aviv), China (Central Academy of Drama in Beijing), Czech Republic (Academy of Music and Dramatic Art in Brno), Italy (Academy of Dramatic Art named after Silvio d'Amico in Rome), Colgate and Cornell Universities (USA), International MA-MFA-Short courses program (London, Madrid, Michigan, Moscow, Paris), etc.

Teachers and students of the Academy take part in international theater schools and festivals. RATI-GITIS is the initiator of the international festival of theater schools "Podium" held every two years in Moscow.

A wide variety of specialties in 8 faculties has a fruitful effect on the training of students, who, starting from the first year, exist in an atmosphere of cooperation between masters of different theater professions, which greatly facilitates their independent career after graduation. The GITIS Theater with 200 seats is the first professional platform for students, where aspiring directors, actors and stage designers try their hand; Often the performances of this theater become a very significant event in the theatrical life of Moscow and are placed by experts on a par with the works of recognized masters.

The universality of professional training is the original feature of GITIS, which throughout the history of its existence has concentrated within its walls training in the three most important areas of theatrical art - drama, music and choreography, and already in the 1930s. introduced university training in theater studies and management in the arts. Along with professional training, today's GITIS students receive a university-type liberal arts education. This opens up wide opportunities for graduates to apply their professional knowledge and skills.