Shanghai Theatre Academy

The Shanghai Theater Academy is a professional art academy focusing on cultivating talents in drama art. Since the establishment of the school in 1945, the school has always adhered to the concept of elite education, formed a distinctive talent training model for professional art colleges, and cultivated a large number of cultural and artistic talents for China.

The predecessor of 　　 was the Shanghai Municipal Experimental Drama School. On December 1, 1945, with the support of the famous educator Gu Yuxiu, it was founded by the famous dramatists Li Jianwu, Gu Zhongyi and Huang Zuolin. In October 1949, the Shanghai Experimental Drama School was renamed the Shanghai Drama Academy. In 1952, colleges and universities across the country adjusted their departments and departments. The Department of Drama of Shandong University and the Drama Group of Shanghai Xingzhi Art School were merged and formally established and renamed the East China Branch of the Central Academy of Drama. In 1956, it was officially named the Shanghai Theater Academy, which is a higher professional art college directly under the Ministry of Culture, with Xiong Fuxi as the first dean. In April 2000, it was transferred to the joint construction of Shanghai Municipality and the Ministry of Culture. In June 2002, the former School of Performing Arts of Shanghai Normal University was merged, and Shanghai Opera School and Shanghai Dance School became affiliated schools of the school.

　　 The school currently has 2,596 full-time students, including 1,801 undergraduates, 2 post-doctoral mobile stations, 2 first-level disciplines authorized for doctoral degree, and 4 first-level disciplines authorized for master's degree. There are 11 secondary teaching units, including the Department of Performance, the Department of Directing, the Department of Drama and Literature, the Department of Stage Art, the School of Film and Television, the School of Traditional Chinese Opera, the School of Dance, the School of Creativity, the Music Theatre Performing Arts Center, the Department of Public Teaching, and the Graduate School. There are two secondary technical schools affiliated to the opera school and the affiliated dance school.

　　 The school has 20 undergraduate majors. According to the characteristics of cultivating professional art talents in art schools, there are also multiple professional directions under each major. At present, there are 15 majors enrolled in the undergraduate program, including acting, theater film and television director, theater film and television literature, art education, theater film and television art design, painting, public service management, visual communication design, digital media art, radio and television director, film and television photography and Production, broadcasting and hosting art, dance performance, dance choreography, composition and composition technology theory. Among them, there are 3 national characteristic majors and 1 Shanghai characteristic major.

　　 The school has four campuses: Huashan Road campus is the location of the Performing Department, Director Department, Theater Literature Department, Stage Art Department, Musical Theater Performing Arts Center, and Creative College. The future function is positioned as the theater art education center. The Lianhua Road campus is the location of the Chinese Opera Academy, the Film and Television Academy and the affiliated opera school. The future function is positioned as the Chinese Opera Education Center. The Hongqiao Road campus is located in the Shanghai International Dance Center. It was officially opened in March 2017. The existing dance academy and affiliated dance school are positioned as a dance education center in the future. The Pujiang campus started construction on December 1, 2016 and is expected to be opened in the new semester of 2019. It will be an innovative film and television new media education center.

As of September 2016, the school has 270 full-time teachers, 36.67% of which are full-time teachers with senior professional titles; 168 teachers with master's degree, accounting for 62.2%, and 47 teachers with doctoral degree, accounting for 17.4%; Teachers under the age of 45 accounted for 74.8%. All majors have basically formed a teaching team with a relatively reasonable structure and relatively rich levels. In recent years, through the implementation of the undergraduate teaching teacher incentive plan and the peak plateau discipline construction plan, the level of the teaching staff has been improved to a certain extent.

　　 Since the establishment of the school, the school teachers have made remarkable achievements. The school is not only an educational unit, but also a cultural center in Shanghai and the whole country. In the 1960s, the "Young Generation" created and performed by the school influenced an entire generation. In the past three years, the school has received funding from a number of National Art Fund projects, and a series of original plays have produced a good social response, such as the original drama "Children of the Country", "Four Ministers of the Ming Dynasty" and the dance drama "Red". In order to promote teaching, professional teachers of the school also actively participate in various artistic creations in the society, and have won many national awards in the fields of screenwriting, table director and stage design.

The school has four first-level disciplines: drama and film, art theory, design, music and dance. Drama and film are selected as the first-class discipline construction plan of the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission, and design and art theory are selected as plateau disciplines. Type 2 and Type 3 construction plans. During the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" period, the school won the National Social Science Fund Project, the National Social Science Fund Art Project, the Ministry of Education Humanities and Social Science Research Project, the Ministry of Culture National Cultural Science and Technology Promotion Project, and the Ministry of Culture National Cultural Innovation Project. Scientific research projects, the number of scientific research projects has broken through year after year.

The school has established a cooperation mechanism with major domestic art troupes and institutions, and has established a school-level student practice base with China National Theater, National Grand Theater, Beijing People’s Art Theater, Shanghai Drama Art Center, Shanghai Song and Dance Troupe, Shanghai Yue Theater, etc. Among them, the base established in cooperation with the Shanghai Drama Art Center has become a national practice teaching base. In addition, the school extensively develops undergraduate students’ artistic creation and practice activities through the undergraduate innovation and entrepreneurship projects, the Pecking Shell Project, and the "Huizhuang Youth" and other student art practice projects, creating more than one hundred works of art each year.

　　 More than 70 years of running the school, the school has trained nearly 10,000 art professionals for the country, and a considerable number of them have become famous and influential artists in the theater, film and television, dance and art circles in Shanghai, China and the world.

Famous drama film and television performance artists and famous actors: Hu Qingshu (1951), You Benchang (1952), Yang Zaibao (1955), Jiao Huang (1955), Zhu Xijuan (1956), Cao Lei (1958), Wei Zongwan (1959), Sun Feihu (1960) , Qiao Zhen (1961), Zhao Youliang (1962), Tong Zirong (1962), Pan Hong (1973), Xi Meijuan (1973), Li Yuanyuan (1978), Liu Wei (1980), Ding Jiali (1980), Song Jia (1981), Wang Luoyong ( 1981), Li Youbin (1983 Drama Performance Training Class), You Yong (1984), Sa Rina (1985), Chen Hong (1986), Zhou Jie (1989), Ren Chengwei (1989), Tranquility (1991), Xu Zheng (1990), Guo Jinglin (1990), Liao Fan (1993), Li Bingbing (1993), Ren Quan (1993), Liu Xiaofeng (1993), Ma Yili (1994), Lu Yi (1995), Wang Jingchun (1995), Tong Dawei (1997), Yan Kuan (1997) ), Feng Shaofeng (1997), Tong Lei (1999), Xiao Song Jia (1999), Zhang Danfeng (2000), Han Xue (2001), Hu Ge (2001), Chen He (2004), Zheng Kai (2004), Lin Gengxin (2007), Jiang Jinfu (2009), Di Lieba (2010), etc.

Famous opera performing artists and famous opera actors: Yang Chunxia, Li Bingshu, Yue Meiti, Wang Zhiquan, Zhang Jingxian, Cai Zhengren, Ji Zhenhua, Liu Yilong, Liang Guyin, Hua Wenyi, Wang Peiyu, Fu Xiru, Weng Jiahui (2003), Yang Yanan (2004), Lantian ( 2004), Fu Jia, etc.

　　Famous dance performance artists: Ling Guiming, Mao Huifang, Shi Zhongqin, Wang Qifeng, Yang Xinhua, Huang Doudou, Tan Yuanyuan, etc.

Famous writers: Chen Yun, Chen Zufen (1960), Sha Yexin (1961), Qin Peichun (1964), Sun Zuping (1964), Lu Jun (1977), Zhao Yaomin (1978), Wang Renjie (1980 screenwriting training class), Luo Huaizhen, Li Li waited.

　　Famous drama theorists: Chen Duo, Yu Qiuyu (1963), Ding Luonan (1963), Chen Shixiong, Ye Changhai (1979), Sun Huizhu (1979), etc.

Famous stage artists (painters) and theorists: Zhou Benyi (1950), Gong Hede (1950), Jin Changlie (1951), Hu Miaosheng (1951), Mao Xinke (1959), Cai Tiliang (1961), Chen Junde, Li Shan, Xu Jiahua (1973), Yu Xiaofu (1975), Zhou Changjiang (1975), Guo Runwen (1978), Chen Zhen (1978), Xu Xiang (1980), Cai Guoqiang (1981), Han Lixun (1981), Han Sheng (1981), Yi Tian Husband (1983), Xiao Lihe (1983), Sha Xiaolan (1985), etc.

Famous director artists: Zhu Duanjun, Hu Dao, Li Hanxiang, Wang Fulin, Zhang Ge, Hu Weimin (1949), Yang Yanjin (1964), Xu Qiping (1950), Ma Ke, Chen Mingzheng (1950), Xiong Yuanwei (1960), Zhang Zhongnian (1962), Su Leci (1962), Mao Weining (1982), Lu Ang (1985), etc.

　　Famous hosts: He Jing (1988), Cheng Lei (1990), Chen Rong (1995), Ji Xueping (1995), Zhou Jin (1995), Zhu Zhen (1997), Dong Qing (2007), etc.

The school has also cultivated a large number of cultural management talents and held leadership positions in domestic and foreign art professional institutions, such as the Dean of the Shanghai Theatre Academy, the Dean of the National Theatre of China, the Dean of the School of Drama at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, and the Dean of the School of Drama at the Nanyang Academy of Arts in Singapore. , Dean of the Central Academy of Drama, including a large number of senior managers who hold leadership positions in various art groups and government cultural authorities.

　　The school also trained the first generation of dramatists in Tibet, Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang and other minority areas, and made important contributions to the promotion of China's cultural undertakings. In the history of Shanghai Opera, the school has won the honorary title of "Advanced Unit of National Unity and Progress" issued by the State Council three times. Since the establishment of the first Tibetan performance class in 1959, the school has successively opened five performance classes, three stage art classes, and one director class for Tibet, and has trained more than 300 Tibetan literary and artistic talents. In 2015, the drama "Common Homeland" created by the Tibet Autonomous Region Repertory Troupe was used as a tribute repertoire for the 70th anniversary of Shanghai Opera. It received endless applause and honor in the theater of the alma mater.

　　 school is the vanguard of educational reform and innovation in domestic professional art academies. In recent years, the school has worked hard to expand its international education platform, and established inter-school exchanges and cooperation with 56 foreign drama schools and many international institutions and organizations. The school also relies on normal programs such as international small theater performances, winter colleges, summer schools, and full-time English master's majors in cross-cultural communication to carry out international exchanges. In April 2015, after the headquarters of the UNESCO-International Theatre Association settled in Shanghai, the school seized the opportunity to strengthen in-depth cooperation with the International Theatre Association, and jointly organized various international cultural and artistic activities from the perspective of expanding the international vision of artistic talents. . For example, the "International Dance Day" event was successfully held in Paris, France in 2016 to better spread Chinese dance to the world.

The school’s goal is to cultivate professional artistic talents with "the perfection and beauty", and the policy of "producing talents, producing works, producing ideas, and producing models" as its school-running policy. It is committed to building a modern university governance system and is becoming a world-class university. The multi-disciplinary teaching, creation, and research-oriented professional art academies.