China Culture Newspaper 2013-11-14
Comprehensive Training Class for Directors in Tibet Autonomous Region started its session in STA recently. The Class is hosted by the Ministry of Culture and organized by Art Bureau of the Ministry o Culture, Provincial Department of Culture from Tibet Autonomous Region and Shanghai Theatre Academy. 25 elites of the Tibetan nationality from Tibet Autonomous Region will study in the following month for their further education majored in Directing.
In the opening ceremony, 25 Tibetan young directors from the theatre groups in Tibet, all dressed up in traditional Tibetan clothes, were sitting by the table. After the ceremony, Lu Ang gave the first speech "on the history of the directing". Mr Lu was a famous theatre directing Artist and the director of the Directing Department in STA.
It is reported that the Directing Department of STA, as the main host of the class, invited directors and actors famous both home and abroad, renowned scholars and experts to give lectures.
Famous professors from STA, such as Zhang Zhongnian and Hu Miaosheng, etc, will give lectures on directing aestheticism, stage art and artistic aestheticism. Nicholas Barter, former principle of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art from Britain, is invited to introduce the dramatic acting workshop which is characteristic for the classic drama teaching in Britain. Given that many of the students are acting and directing talents from the local dance troupes or opera groups in Tibet, STA invited Lan Fan, the famous dancing theorist, Yu Xiao and Zhang Lin, the famous choreographers, to teach theory and practice courses about dancing art.
It is a traditional program for STA to train dramatic art talents of minority groups from Tibet, which is important in the teaching history of STA. In 1959, STA started the first Tibetan Performance Class under the request of the Tibetan Working Committee and the Ministry of Culture. Now, STA has hosted 4 performance classes and 3 stage art classes and trained more than 200 art talents for Tibet.
