Theatre and Movement Directing Diploma Program

Program of Theatre Directing Diploma Course is developed to give you a professional and very special education, we emphasize only on the needs of directors. How to become a professional director, how to work with actors, with composers, with set designer, with costume designers, with choreographers, with producers and with theatre staff. ​​ This course aims to give students professional specific education, special view, knowledge and tools that artistic directors should have in contemporary performance making. ​ The course equips students with both the practical skills and the theoretical knowledge necessary to be a professional director and create one’s own performances. The core of every program​ in NIPAI is learning by doing, thus every student of Theatre Directing Diploma Course will complete their own Study Project - Graduation Performance in the theatre organization, working with actors and the crew. ​ The key learning objective of the program focuses on theoretical and practical tasks to help students explore: how to read and analyze a play, how to formulate a plot and super-objective of the performance; what theatre director should know to be prepared for the first meeting with actors; how to lead actors from first meeting to performance; how to work with your colleagues in theatre (composer, stage designer, others); what tools should directors have to prepare actor for role; how to choose and apply method of rehearsing and technique of acting; postproduction of performance. ​ All students pursuing a Diploma Course at The New International Performing Arts Institute must be proficient in English and earn a bachelor's degree (at a minimum) or an acceptable equivalent. Applicants must also submit a Creative Portfolio, more details in Entry Requirements. Program Syllabus Study Project Admission Entry Requirements Program Duration: 18 months InClass Sessions: 4 study weeks Distant Learning: 30 study weeks Program Format: Online & InClass Study Project: Graduation Performance Next Intakes: Summer & Fall 2020 BENEFITS FOR STUDENTS PROGRAM BENEFITS Guided by a holistic understanding and practice of performance making, the program enables students to develop competent skills by teaching a variety of tools, techniques and methods of professional Theatre Directing. KNOWLEDGE gaining access to up-to-date theoretical and practical knowledge theory and practice of modern professional theatre director BLENDED LEARNING studying with a combination of actual and virtual seminars accessibility to knowledge from all over the world PERFORMANCE MAKING development of own performance, which is a substantial part of the study, in line with individual interests