| The New Theatre Institute of Latvia is a theatre centre serving the existing and emerging theatre professionals, their audience and focusing on international co-operation. The NTI is a non-governmental organisation, which encourages the development of the independent theatre in Latvia with an aim to overcome the existing boundaries in theatre organisation, creation, distribution and perception. |
| Professional
development. NTI initiates seminars, lectures, workshops creating
opportunities for advanced training that goes beyond the frames of
the current official education. Reflection. NTI provokes public discussions and debates, as well as publications on key questions concerning the performing arts and cultural policy . Networking. NTI participates in the international networking, disseminating information on the Latvian theatre and serves as an international partner. NTI furthers and participates in the regional networking, co-operation and information exchange. Presentation. NTI initiates, produces or collaborates in presenting and creating national and international work in performing arts, inviting foreign productions of high quality or supporting laboratory type productions in the Baltic countries. |
| Juridical status: Non profit limited organisation Founders: 30 individuals that elect the board that is the main governing authority Board: consists of 5 persons elected by the founders and invited once per month to evaluate and propose further strategy and to develop the policy. The board must be changed every 2 years by co-optation. |
| NTI is the only organisation dealing with international projects on a regular basis in Latvia. The main task of NTI is to make use of the information in projects. Besides NTI is a partner of the similar centres in Lithuania and Estonia, sometimes even representing Baltic performing arts in international collaborations. |
| The idea of the
NTI aroused around 1995 when several international projects were organised:
the first edition of the theatre festival Homo Novus 95, the International
Master Workshop on Michail Chekhov 96, the international acting workshop
Baltic Seaside Drama 96. With the second edition of the festival Homo Novus in 1997 the development of the New Theatre Institute of Latvia started. With an aim to participate in international and regional networking and to carry out international projects, NTI was established in the fall of 1998 by 30 theatre professionals - directors, artists, set designers, scholars, managers. The most important projects carried out in 1998 are: the public debate on independent theatres in Latvia, co-production of Landscape X: euralien (Stockholm, Intercult). The idea behind the establishment of the NTI put by the theatre professionals of the young generation was quite pretentious: to set up our own system that could later influence and change the old one. |
| The target audience of NTI is professionals working in the fields of theatre, contemporary dance, opera (both individuals and organisations), cultural managers and art students. There are regular projects aimed at a wide range of audiences, e.g. a biannual International Festival of Contemporary Theatre Homo Novus. New Theatre Institute of Latvia is a theatre centre serving the existing and emerging theatre professionals, their audience and focusing on international co-operation. |
