Elzė Gudavičiūtė, Head of the Department of Acting and Directing, is elected to the Board of the École des Écoles

Last week, the heads of the European Higher Schools of Theatre gathered at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre. Not only was there a workshop for the teachers of the École des Écoles network, but also an extraordinary congress of the members of this association. During this congress, the Head of the Department of Acting and Directing, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Elzė Gudavičiūtė, was elected to the Board of this international network of Higher Schools of the Arts for a three-year term of office. 

“I am sincerely glad that the events of the École des Écoles Network, which took place at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre throughout the week, went smoothly, that the Department of Acting and Directing was able to ensure the quality of the workshop content and, together with other departments of the Academy, smoothly prepared and organised both the workshop and the extraordinary meeting of the members of the Association. The reflections and comments of the foreign lecturers who took part in the workshop on the closing evening were gratifying in their positivity and in their observation of the uniqueness and distinctiveness of our Theatre School. I would like to express my sincere gratitude to all the practitioners of the performing arts who conducted the workshop,” said Elzė Gudavičiūtė, Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Acting and Directing at the Academy of Performing Arts of Latvia, after the workshop dedicated to the members of the École des écoles .

“The two-day extraordinary meeting of the heads of the Association’s higher education art schools, which followed the workshop, was devoted to the preparation of a new strategic partnership project. During this meeting, the new board of the École des Écoles network was also elected. It will be made up of school leaders and performing arts professionals from Hamburg, the Netherlands, Belgium, Lithuania and Romania for the next three years,” – added E. Gudavičiūtė, who was also elected to the association’s Board.

The École des Écoles network brings together 16 European Higher Education Schools of the Arts, promotes the exchange of performing arts teachers, organises workshops to improve teachers’ competences and runs international projects involving teachers and students.