About KIMI
Keleti István Elementary School of Arts (KIMI) was founded in 1998 in Budapest, starting the academic year with a performing arts class. The founders were teachers who had gained considerable professional recognition in student acting, drama and other fields of artistic education. The institution is operated by the „Ab Esse Ad Posse” Foundation for the School of the Future. The school was established with the aim to serve personality development through artistic awareness and expressive creativity provided by the means of drama and theatre. In 2000 the profile of the institution was extended by the introduction of vocational qualification in acting.
The elementary artistic education is designed for students of 6 to 18. Beside attending their standard day-time primary or secondary school, these students take 4-5 afternoon lessons a week familiarising them with drama, reciting poems and prose, dancing and creative approach to music.
The elementary level of KIMI operates on 5 locations in Budapest, and 4 further towns in Hungary (Debrecen, Szentes, Miskolc and Győr) totalling a number of 800 students.
The vocational qualification in acting provides further education for students between 18 and 22 who have already taken their „A” and „O” levels. At present we have 84 students involved in this type of education. Beside the 12 full-time college staff , there are also well-known actors, directors, screenplaywriters and choreographers engaged in the tuition. This 3-year
programme provides day-time instruction in 40 contact hours per week – both individualised and in groups. In the first year, students receive a general training in basic stage acting, to gain further theatrical experience in the next two years with some professional theatres in Budapest such as Bárka, Kolibri and the New Theatre.
This qualification is the equivalent of „4CV” in the international ISCED framework.
For the next academic year, KIMI is planning to open a new central location near Budapest City Park, offering practical and theoretical instruction to 120 students at a time,
also accommodating a 60-seat studio theatre operating on a permanent basis.
About the tuition
Our daytime course takes three years with forty lessons a week. In the first year the students receive basic training, afterwards they can gain practice in the studios of the Bárka Theatre, Kolibri Theatre, and the New Theatre. The course ends with a special examination, which consists of the theoretical and practical knowledge of assisting a theatrical performance. Students take their final exam at the end of the 6th semester,
in front of a committee consisting of representatives of the Ministry of Education and
Culture and the Chamber of Stage and Screen Actors.The thus earned Actor II degree makes it possible for our students to apply for jobs in theatres.
The complex theatre-focussed course not only prepares students for the entrance examinations for higher education institutions, but also has a personality-developing effect. Among getting to know many plays and scripts, our students will enjoy the benefits of working in theatres in the field of community life, which can have impact on all other areas of their life later on.
Our trainers are actors, directors, dramatic advisors, speech therapists, tutors, professional dancers, choreographers, and other experts who play an active role in contemporary theatrical life.
Applications take place every year from mid-May by filling and posting the application form which can be found on our website, or personally at the KIMI centre.
The course is subject to fees, which can be paid in several instalments during the term.
Subjects
Acting 576 lessons/3 years
Elocution 180 lessons/3 years
Voice Training 288 lessons/3 years
Stage Speech 180 lessons/3 years
On-Stage Movement 216 lessons/3 years
Dance 216 lessons/3 years
Motion Theatre Practice 72 lessons/one year
Exercises in Puppetry 72 lessons/first year +144 lessons (only Kolibri Theatre)
History of Theatre and Drama 324 lessons/3 years
Dramatisation 396 lessons/3 years
Aesthetics 72 lessons/one year
Cultural History 144 lessons/3 years
History of Costumes and Clothing 144 lessons/3 years
Theatre Practice 1012 lessons / 2 years
Call
Sándor Csupor
+36-70-371-4808
or write to: kimi@kimi.hu