Yakutsk Teen Daria Aleksandrovskaya Earns Spot in GITIS Acting Auditions
MTS Summarizes Results of "Generation M" Educational Project for Far East Applicants
The preliminary online selection for the Russian Institute of Theatre Arts (GITIS) took place on the MTS Link platform as part of MTS's Generation M initiative for prospective students from Russia's Far East. Daria Aleksandrovskaya, a budding actress from Yakutsk, received a recommendation for admission to GITIS's acting program.
The online auditions were led by Yekaterina Nikolayeva, a senior lecturer in GITIS's acting department. Nearly 100 high school and vocational college students from the Far East and other regions took part. Participants prepared a mandatory recitation program, including a poem, a fable, and a prose excerpt. The performances featured a diverse range of works—from Ivan Krylov's and Sergei Mikhalkov's fables and Anton Chekhov's and Mikhail Bulgakov's short stories to poems by Rimma Kazakova, Joseph Brodsky, and Sergei Yesenin.
Nikolayeva evaluated contestants on charisma, sense of rhythm, and transformative ability. Following the auditions, Daria Aleksandrovskaya from Yakutsk earned high praise and was recommended for the second round of in-person auditions at GITIS in Moscow.
Since the sixth grade, Daria has been active in a Yakutsk theater club, where she and her peers staged annual New Year's performances for children. She spent a year preparing for her GITIS audition, presenting Krylov's fable The Wolf and the Fox, Yevgeny Yevtushenko's poem And You Don't Even Suspect, and an excerpt from Dina Rubina's Lyubka during the online selection.
"When the message arrived with the list of candidates recommended for the second round, I was just submitting my application documents for theater school in Moscow with my dad," Daria recalls. "I opened the messenger and started scanning for my name—but at first, I didn't even see it because I was at the top of the list! It was so unexpected; I hadn't dared hope for this. Now, I'm determined to see this through to the end and study where I've always dreamed of."
The online auditions for the MTS Generation M project at GITIS are now in their sixth year. And each time, talented young people from Yakutia advance to the next rounds of auditions at the legendary university. The online format gives young performers from remote regions a fantastic opportunity to showcase their skills while saving their families the cost of traveling to Moscow.
I wish Daria the best of luck in the next stages. And for those in Yakutia who missed the online auditions, there's still a chance—on April 28 and 29, in-person tryouts will be held at the Primorsky Philharmonic in Vladivostok. There, GITIS instructors Tatiana Morozova and Alexander Nedomolkin will meet with gifted young performers from Primorsky Krai and other regions of the Far East, said Prokopy Neustroev, Director of MTS in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia).
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