The "2012 International Stage Arts Education" exhibition, held by International Stage Design Students’Works Exchange(also known as ISDSWE), opened ceremoniously in East Exhibition Hall of the underwater corridor in National Centre for the Performing Arts. Honorable guests attending the ribbon-cut ceremony include Mr.Xu Yongsheng(Vice president of the Central Academy of Drama of China), Ms.Yang Ling(Vice president of National Centre for the Performing Arts), Mr.Michael Ramsaur(vice chairman of OISTAT), Ms.Marina Raytchinova(former chair of OISTAT Education Commission),Mr.Sun Daqing(Dean of the Stage Design Department in the Central Academy of Drama of China), Mr.Zhang Qingshan(Deputy Dean of the same department) and ,Mr.Li Wei(Dean of the Stage Design Department in the National Academy Of Chinese Theatre Arts).Guests gave important speeches for this exhibition. They concluded the past and foresaw the outlook of stage design education all around the world.
15 members of ISDSWE all around the world have over 30 professors and students taken part in this program: Instituut Lichtontwerpen, Auburn University, Europäische Medien-und Event-Akademie, NOVA Academy of Arts, Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Royal welsh college of Music & Drama, De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde, Faculty of Technical Sciences, Novi Sad University, Chung-Ang University, Seokyeong University, National Academy of Art, Stanford University, Taipei National University of the Arts, Pennsylvania State University and Academy of Fine Arts Warsaw. Items on display cover all areas of stage design, including design of the stage, scenic paintings on stage, lightning design, costume design and design of makeup. Experts, professors and students at home and from abroad all took part in the discussion on more than 100 items and nearly 500 pictures. The exhibition was permeated with deep academic atmosphere.
Hosted by the ISDSWE founded by the Central Academy of Drama and OISTAT Education Commission .
Direct, all-around and thorough, this exhibition reveals the elaborated design process and ultimate products with design sketches, modes,stage photos and words descriptions. The latest trends and results of education of stage design, this universal language, are shown to the whole society.The set form of this exhibition designed by students and teachers from the Central Academy of Drama, is a spot to see.They use a large number of cubic structures to correspond with the lightning effects.This work shows the Central Academy of Drama's teaching characteristic---theatricalism, spaciality and on site.
Located in the Central Academy of Drama, the ISDSWE is a platform for stage design education on master level, and the only entity for OISTAT Education Commission's activities. It organizes exchange programs and professional discussions on different levels for a number of countries and regions, explores education of this field in the future, and promotes the integration and development of theatric education worldwide. The program has won the First Prize in the 4th Year's Creative Program of Ministry of Culture.
Our activities include the following 3 parts:
1.Website The internet of the ISDSWE(www.isdswe.com) intends to collect works accomplished by students, and provides a platform full of inspirations and information for professional education around the world.
2.Exhibition ISDSWE exhibits excellent works of students and releases formal annual publications in both Chinese and English.
3.Workshops for practice ISDSWE provides an opportunity for visiting students from abroad and our fellows at home to study from each other and to create experimental works jointly. The ultimate products are to show in the Black Box Theatre in the Central Academy of Drama for professional audience.