Beijing Dance Academy

Beijing Dance Academy (simplified Chinese: 北京舞蹈学院; traditional Chinese: 北京舞蹈學院; pinyin: Běijīng Wǔdǎo Xuéyuàn) is a full-time institution of higher learning in Beijing with commitment to developing excellent professional dancers, choreographers, and dance researchers. Founded in 1954, the former Beijing Dance School was the first professional dance school ever established since the founding of People's Republic of China. Beijing Dance Academy was officially established in 1978 with the approval of State Council, as an institution affiliated to the Ministry of Culture. In 2000, its governance was transferred to Beijing Municipal Government. The Academy provides BA and MA degrees and has become the only institution of higher learning for professional dance education in China, as well as the largest prestigious dance school with comprehensive concentrations in the world.

Words meaning "the Cradles of Dancers" inside the campus of Beijing Dance Academy.
Beijing Dance Academy
北京舞蹈学院
TypePublic
Established1954
PresidentGuo Lei (郭磊)
Location
Haidian District, Beijing
,
China
CampusUrban
Websitewww.bda.edu.cn

The Academy, known as "the Cradle of Dancers" (舞蹈家的摇篮) and adjacent to Zizhuyuan Park, Haidian District, has admitted and graduated numerous students with fierce ambitions in dance. Currently, it has about 600 in-service faculty and staff, and 2500 full-time students apart from over 5000 students from the School of Continuing Education. Every year, the School of Dance Grade Education trains over 50,000 teachers of dance grade examination at home and abroad, and nearly 500,00 students take the examinations at different levels.

With commitment to building a world-class dance university with Chinese characteristics, the Academy now provides such divisions as the Department of Chinese Classical Dance, the Department of Chinese Ethnic and Folk Dance, Ballroom dance Department, Ballet Department, Musical Department, Creative School (consisting of departments of Choreography, Modern Dance, Art Design), Humanities School (consisting of departments of Dance Studies, Art Communication, General Education, and Ideological and Political Science), Education School, BDA Youth Dance Company, School of Continuing Education, School of Dance Grade Examination and Affiliated Secondary School of BDA, involving academic areas of dance performance, dance studies, choreography, dance education, art design, etc.

Departments
  • The Department of Chinese Classical Dance
  • The Department of Chinese Ethnic and Folk Dance
  • The Ballet Department
  • The Department of Choreography
  • The Department of Dance Studies
  • The Department of Social Dance
  • The Department of Musical Theater
  • The Department of Art Communication
  • The Department of Art Design
  • The Education and Research Center for Modern Dance
  • The Department of Liberal Arts
  • Graduate Faculty
  • The School of Continuing Education
  • The School of Dance Grading Examination and Education
  • The Affiliated Secondary School of BDA
  • Youth Dance Company

Notable alumni
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