In the morning of May 19, 2014, The seminar of the 1st World Theatre Education Convention opened in the Changping Campus of the Central Academy of Drama, China. Participating experts made discussions about the theme “Asia Today – Theatre Education for the 21st Century, which” offered us great interpretation about the Modernization of Traditional Theatre.
Participants & Thesis：
YunCheol Kim: The Confessions of a Failed Educator
Christopher Balme: Asian Theatre and Globalization: Historical Perspectives
Brian Singleton: Ritual and Tradition of Asian Performance in an Irish Educational and Training Context
Margarete Schuler: Teaching Essentials of the Acting Method of Hochschule fur Schauspielkunst “Ernst Busch” Berlin at Shanghai Theatre Academy: The German Class: A Long Term Experiment
Li Yi’nan: The Dramaturgy Seminar at the Central Academy of Drama
KwangBok Lee: Influence of the Integration of Drama and Other Art Forms in Performance Education
Ji Pei: Imagination Training in Fundamental Directing Teaching
Chen Xiangqun: The Multifunction Dart of Drama Clothing
Baek Nam-Young: A Study on Providing Direction for Future Theatre Education – A Successful Case of a University Theatre Production Called The Story of Sora, A Star in the Professional Field.
Wang Yongqing: Exploring New Teaching Methods on the Graduation Creation of Theatre Directing – On the Creation of the Free-Style Opera The Scholar and the Executioner by Undergraduate Students in Theatre Directing at National Academy of Chinese Theatre Arts
Laura Hayes: Teaching Leocq’s 20 Movements Today in Singapore – Is There Still a Value in Teaching Movement Sequences in the 21st Century?
Andrew Mowatt: The Actor ‘Training’ – An Exploration of Current Actor Training in an Arts School in Singapore
Marfua Khamidova: From The Library of Theatre Education and Training Experience of Theatre Staff in Uzbekistan State Institute of Arts and Culture
YangEun Kang: The Study of the Recent Trends and Changes of Acting Techniques with Actors in Korea, and Acting Education for Futuristic Development in Acting Fields
Phan Trong Thanh: Vietnam Theatrical Education Bases on Adaptation of the World Theatrical Education and Promotes the Ethnic Cultural Art Identity
Peter Goessner: Japanese Theatre & Theatre Education’s Current Situation and Future Development
Ma Zhenghong: Theatre Education in Colombia’s University
Naidan Gankhuyag: Theatre Ecological Education – On the Example of A. Chekhov and his Plays The Seagull and Uncle Vanya
Inseung Park: Theatre Design Education in the Future
Corneliu Fumitriu: The Aesthetics of Masks in Chinese Traditional Theatre
Annelis Kuhlmann: Roberta Carreri: Traces in the Snow – A Performed Artistic Autobiography with Emphasis on Asian Impact on Actor’s Training in One of the World’s Oldest Still Existing Group Theatres, Odin Teatret, Denmark
Markku Unimonen: What Art Education, International Mobility, and Lighting Design Have in Common. And When Does Lighting Design Become Art?
Snejina Tankovska: Understanding and Reflection on Asian Theatre and Theatre Education Studies
Robert Reid: Traditions, Conventions, Belief and Magic
Sjef Tilly: Linking Tradition and Innovation – Maastricht Academy of Performing Arts
Michael Ramsaur: Theater Technicians for today: The Needed Education
Giorgi Margvelashvili: Theatre Education and ⅩⅪCentury
Oleksii Bezgin: Experience of Training Future Masters of Scene
Christina Nygren: Reflections on Asian Theatre – Japan, China and India in a Comparative Perspective
Benjamin Rodger Sumner: Technical Theatre Training in the UK – A Personal Perspective
Aubrey Mellor: Training for 21st Century Theatre
