Specialists from Saint Petersburg State University & Bard College Supervised Our Students’ Scene Performances

A cycle of master classes by Natalia Fedorova and Peter Wallace is taking place at Astrakhan State University.

The training is delivered as part of the project by the Cultural Center of ASU “Theater Technologies in Business Communication”. Our University has been cooperating with Saint Petersburg State University and Bard College for many years, carrying out projects in a number of fields.

Natalia Fedorova is a PhD in Philology; she lectures at the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences of Saint Petersburg State University. Dr. Fedorova is a media poet; she researches media art. Peter Wallace graduated from the Yale School of Drama; he is a professor of the Bard College Institute for Writing & Thinking.

As a result of their studies, our students will gain experience of speaking in public; they will consider theater mechanisms, work with scenarios, and master skills of handling the audience. Such knowledge and skills will definitely be useful for their further careers. They will learn how to handle discussions, solve problems creatively, and work in teams.

The first part of the master classes has already been held. Meeting Dr. Konstantin Markelov, our Acting Rector, the distinguished guests highly appreciated our students’ willingness to learn something new. According to Prof. Wallace, it was a pleasure for him to work with them. They are clever, full of energy; they try to do what Prof. Wallace and Dr. Fedorova suggested they should do, and they succeed in doing that. In her turn, Dr. Fedorova appreciated our students’ taking the initiative: they come up with new ideas and experiments at every single class.