The Contemporary Theatre Laboratory is a space where theatre is understood and studied as a process.
Unlike any other genre of art, theatre always takes place “here and now”: a play is performed over and over again, but every time there is a different energy to it, both on stage and in the audience, which brings new experiences and adds new dimensions to the play.
The goal of the laboratory is not to preserve theatre traditions, but to carefully study, analyze, process, and advance them.
Students explore the possibilities of various movements and situations from avant-garde and post-avant-garde to archaics, from working on the stage to site-specific projects, from creating a work of visual art to participatory and socially engaged practices. But the main goal is to acquire practical skills for creating independent theatre projects.
The laboratory combines traditions of Russian and European theatre schools. It has adopted a modular system of training, keeping the curators supervise the learning process and support the student work throughout the entire period of training.
The laboratory combines the traditions of the Russian and European theater schools, assuming, on the one hand, a modular training system, and on the other hand, keeping the curators in charge of supervision of the learning process and supporting students throughout the entire period of training.
The key difference between the laboratory and the traditional theatre education is that the main focus of the learning process is kept on the personality of a student rather than the master.