Autor: Noah Birksted-Breen

Jurij Alschitz Director, theatre teacher and academic Dr. Jurij Alschitz received his first director training in Moscow under Prof. J.N. Malkovsky, one of the pupils of Stanislavsky. After numerous productions he continued his education with a second course of training at the GITIS, the Russian Academy for Theatre Arts, under the masters Prof. M. Butkevich and Prof. A. Vasiliev, where he subsequently held a teaching post. In 1987, he took part in the foundation of the theatre “School of Dramatic Art – Anatoly Vasiliev”, where he established his own rehearsal and training methods. He went on further developing the methods of the famous Russian theatre tradition and created his own pedagogical system, where training forms the centre of education and rehearsal techniques. For twenty years, Jurij Alschitz has been leading projects and seminars at various universities and drama schools in Europe, Asia, North and South America. He created the international festival for training methods “Methodika”, developed the postgraduate GITIS-programme “School after Theatre”, and founded the European Association for Theatre Culture with the aim of giving new impulses to theatre.