О Класс-Центре на английском языке. Information about our art school in english

“Class-centre” is a school with a 30-year history that helps children to find themselves in terms of future profession according to their abilities through integration of comprehensive education and vocational training by combining them rather than contradicting. The main integrating element is the “Theatre where children play” that at the end presents a specific result – a performance – and gives children, teachers and parents the opportunity to see and realize the emotional and intellectual abilities of the children and what is the most important – the level of their spiritual maturity.

It is the study of culture that is seen as a means of orientation and adjustment to the changing world and cultural environment, which leads to a certain regulation. That is why “Class-centre” offers cultural knowledge as the integral part of educational process that not only unites various programmes in different combinations with a system of general and specific courses but also allows seeing these programmes from the perspective of cultural anthropology – the science about humans in the world who make it a world of their creations – the world of human culture.

Theatre culture is the fundamental idea of this education. Theatre, the process of creation of a performance that is experienced in the dynamics of preparation for it through a series of already used programmes – is a powerful means of studying the culture and the world.

“The reason for the success of the school is the metacharacter of the subjects. – its principal Sergey Kazarnovskiy thinks. – One subject helps to understand another one and all together they teach life”.

An effective school can’t have a standard set of subjects! Why does “Class-school” teach jazz? Because it explains “jazz thinking” – the art of thinking and improvising. Why does it teach plasticity? Because through it children learn to understand their body. Why does it teach the art of origami? Because it destroys the norms. A small child is taught not how to crumple, tear or destroy. Origami says: you can crumple, you can tear but you can create through it! Why is the art of performing important? It teaches how to understand your partner. And it will be useful in life.

The experimental school of the Honoured Teacher of the Russian Federation of Sergey Kazarnovskiy “Class-centre” has 360 students and 120 teachers. He created a unique combination of students and teachers because he was able to formulate his goal. To achieve it he chose both students and teachers as if they were going to space – individually. The goal is to bring up children full of light. Then these children will shine on everything around them. The more such children will be in society, the less darker it will become.

The school has won the contest among the best schools of Russia that was a part of Priority national project “Education” in Moscow, the contest “The school of Future”, the contest “Best School Yard” – the main prize in the category “Best School Design”.

The alumni of the Drama Department of the school that includes the study of acting classes, speech training, dance and stage movement classes work at the best Russian theatres:

Pyotr Fomenko Workshop theatre – Kiril Pirogov, Katya Smirnova, Fedya Malyshev, Sasha Michkov;

• Chekhov Moscow Art Theatre -  Oleg Topolyanskiy (associate professor of Art Theatre school)
• Russian Academic Youth Theatre – Misha Shklovskiy, Nastya Prokofeva; directors – Oleg Dolin, Galya Zaltsman;
• Vakhtangov Theatre – Vitya Dobronravov;
• Sergey Zhenovach Workshop of Theatre Art – Mariam Seikhon;
• "Gogol-Centre" – Nikita Kukushkin;
• Arina Marakulina (freelancer) – cooperated with the following theatres: “Praktika”, Meyerhold Centre, Theatre of Nations, The Centre of Drama and Directing, Theatre.doc. A three-time winner of “Golden Mask” in the category “Experiment” for performances "Oxygen" (2002/2003), "Light my Fire!" (2011/12), "Pyotr and Fevroniya from Murom" (2013/14);
• Artist Valya Ostankovich (Dmitriy Krymov laboratory) – a two-time winner of «Golden Mask».

“Class-centre” alumni include Artur Smolyaninov (“Sovremennik”), Danila Kozlovskiy (Malyi Drama theatre St.Petersburg).

Actors: Aglaya Shilovskaya, Vanya Dobronravov, Masha Pirogova, Nastya Bezborodova.

The alumni of Music Department where the studies include academic and jazz programmes specializing in violin, piano, flute, recorder, trombone, saxophone, trumpet, guitar, bass guitar, contrabass, clarinet, accordion, bayan, percussion instruments enter the best Russian institutions of professional music education:

• Chaikovskiy Moscow Conservatory,
• Gnessin Russian Academy of Music,
• Academic Music College under Moscow Conservatory,
• Gnessin State Musical College,
• Ipolitov-Ivanov State Music-Pedagogy Institute,
• Moscow State Institute of Music named after A.G.Shnittke,
• Moscow Provincial Art College,
• State Musical College of Stage and Jazz Performance,
• Moscow State Culture and Art University.

One of the most in-demand jazz musicians in Russia today – tenor-saxophonist Sergey Golovnya – is the alumnus of “Class-centre”.

Also, Alexey Kruglov is a famous composer, poet, production director, altoist and one of the leaders of Moscow improvisation stage.

An important peculiarity of this school, an undeniable sign of education quality is the diversity of higher education institutions that the alumni enter.

The range of institutions for the last three years:

• Lomonosov Moscow State University: Philosophy Faculty, History Faculty, Psychology Faculty, the Institute of Asian and African Studies;
• Moscow Regional Art College: contrabass, saxophone;
• Shchukin Theatre Institute;
• High School of Economics: world policy and economy, law, Philosophy faculty;
• MHAT school;
• Russian University of Theatre Arts: Theatre faculty, Directing faculty;
• Kutafin Moscow Municipal Law University;
• The Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography: directing;
• Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation;
• Shchepkin Higher Theatre College;
• British Academy of Design;
• State Musical College of Stage and Jazz Performance: jazz vocal;
• RussianStateLawUniversity;
• MGIMO University;
• Bauman University;
• RUDN University;
• Moscow State University of Culture and Art: Music and Applied art;
• Academic Institute of Television and Radio: operator;
• I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University;
• Moscow State Stroganov Academy of Industrial and Applied Arts;
• Plekhanov Russian University of Economics: mathematical economics, International economic relations;
• The Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation;
• D. Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology of Russia;
• Moscow University of Finance and Law;
• The Moscow State Pedagogical University.

ALUMNI – CURRENT TEACHERS OF CLASS-CENTRE:

Anna Milena Garcia – the teacher of history and social studies, the teacher of the history of world art;

Natasha Golovina – teacher specializing in violin;

Lena Kosaya – teacher specializing in flute;

Varya Latysheva – teacher specializing in dance;

Oleg Dolin – acting teacher;

Galya Zaltsman – acting teacher.