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Beijing Dance Academy is a full-time general higher education school with high-quality dance talent training, high-level dance theory research and creation of works as its main tasks. The school was formerly known as the Beijing Dance School and was founded in 1954. It was the first professional dance school in New China. In 1978, the Beijing Dance Academy was formally established with the approval of the State Council, under the Ministry of Culture. In 2000, it was transferred to the Beijing Municipal People's Government. The school has the right to confer bachelor's and master's degrees. It is the only specialized higher education institution for dance education in China. It is also the world's largest and well-known dance institution with comprehensive professional settings. It is known as the "cradle of dancers".
In recent years, the school has continuously deepened the reform of dance education and teaching. Now it has the Department of Chinese Classical Dance, the Department of Chinese Folk Dance, the Department of Ballet, the Department of International Standard Dance, the Department of Musical Theatre, and the School of Creativity (with choreography, modern dance, and art design Department), College of Humanities (under the Department of Dance, Department of Art Communication, and Department of Public Basics), College of Education, and Graduate Department, Department of Ideological and Political Theory Courses, Continuing Education College, Dance Examination Institute, Youth Dance Troupe, affiliated secondary dance Schools and other teaching institutions have jointly formed a dance education system with Chinese characteristics. The school currently has nearly 600 faculty and staff, nearly 2,400 full-time students (more than 1,300 undergraduates, nearly 200 postgraduates, and more than 800 affiliated high school students). The School of Continuing Education currently has more than 5,000 academic and non-academic education students. The Dance Examination Institute trains more than 50,000 dance examination teachers at home and abroad every year, and nearly 500,000 students take the dance examination.
Since the establishment of the school for more than 60 years, the school has conscientiously implemented the party’s educational policy and literary policy, guided by the school motto of "obeying morality, harmony between heaven and earth, harmony between culture and dance, and both virtue and art", and "adhere to a high-level culture" Pursuing and insisting on high-quality talent training and high-level universal education" as the work goal, taking the lead and promoting the reform and development of China's dance education as its own responsibility, insisting on cultivating talents, and fully performing talent training, scientific research, and social services , Cultural inheritance and innovation, international exchanges and cooperation and other important functions, and strive to build a world-class dance university with Chinese characteristics.
The basic orientation of the school: a teaching and research-oriented dance institution of higher learning.
Service Positioning: Based on the capital, serving the country, facing the world, serving the construction of socialist dance culture with Chinese characteristics.
Function positioning: dance talent training base, dance academic research base, dance creation base, dance culture inheritance innovation base, dance culture and art think tank.
Disciplinary orientation: focus on the development of superior disciplines in dance performance, dance education, dance choreography, and dance theory, actively promote the construction of stage science and art, art management, media technology and dance human science and other related disciplines, and strive to improve the dance discipline system with Chinese characteristics.
Talent training target orientation: Dance cultural talents with solid foundation, comprehensive quality, strong adaptability and innovative spirit. The focus is on training elite talents in dance performances and choreography, and senior talents in dance education and research.