RETHINKING EDUCATION: Training Artists Under Global Pressure

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Is arts training preparing the next generation — or quietly failing them? This cross-continental dialogue brings together voices from the academy and the field to interrogate how performing artists are formed for a global industry that has grown more fragmented, more precarious, and less willing to pay. It asks what success even means: if a graduate cannot sustain a living from their art five years out, has the training worked, and whose metric should decide? Conservatories teach craft, but the field now demands fundraising, self-promotion, resilience, and entrepreneurship — are schools equipping artists or abandoning them at the studio door?

The conversation presses on harder ground. Training remains largely national while careers are global; whose tradition is taught as the canon, and whose is filed under “world theatre”? As tuition climbs and the industry pays less, when does selling a degree become an unethical transaction — and who can still afford the risk? It weighs what “cultural leadership” really means, how AI reshapes what is worth teaching at all, and whether “career-ready” has quietly come to mean “market-compliant.” Ten years out, does the arts degree still exist — and should it?

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PANELISTS

Professor in Performance Theory and Storytelling, Institute of the Arts Barcelona (Spain)

Associate Professor of Theatre Studies, UNATC “I.L. Caragiale” Bucharest (Romania)

Actress, Author & Acting Educator, The Actors Studio Drama School, Pace University (USA)

Film Director, Screenwriter & Professor, Latvian Academy of Culture (Latvia)

Executive Director, Sharjah Performing Arts Academy (UAE / UK)

Emeritus Professor of Theatre History and Theory, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece)

Moderated by Frank Hentschker, Executive Director, Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, CUNY Graduate Center, New York (USA), and Cosmin Chivu, Professor, Sands College of Performing Arts, Pace University, New York (USA / Romania).

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Event in English , with translation into Romanian
Duration: 1h

FREE ACCESS,  WITHIN AVAILABLE PLACES