Top 10 Dance Schools in China

Nationally famous dance schools are Beijing Dance Academy, Shanghai Theater Academy, Nanjing Arts Institute, the People's Liberation Army Academy of Art and so on.

One, Beijing Dance Academy

Beijing Dance Academy is a full-time ordinary school of higher education with the main task of training high-quality dance talents, high-level dance theory research and creation of works. Formerly known as the Beijing Dance School, it was founded in 1954 as the first professional dance school in New China.

Beijing Dance Academy was formally established in 1978 with the approval of the State Council under the Ministry of Culture, and was transferred to the Beijing Municipal People's Government in 2000. With the right to confer bachelor's and master's degrees, the academy is the only specialized dance education institution of higher learning in China, and is also the world's largest and most comprehensively specialized dance school, known as the "cradle of dancers".

Shanghai Theatre Academy

Shanghai Theatre Academy's predecessor is the Shanghai Municipal Experimental Drama School, founded on December 1, 1945 by the famous dramatist Li Jianwu, Huang Zuolin, Gu Yucai, Gu Zhongyi, etc. In 1949, renamed Shanghai Municipal Drama School, in 1951 renamed Shanghai Theatre Academy.

In 1953, the Drama Section of the Art Department of Shandong University and the Drama Group of Shanghai Xingzhi Art School were merged to form the East China Branch of the Central Academy of Drama, which was independently operated in 1956, and was officially renamed Shanghai Theatre Academy, which was subordinate to the Ministry of Culture, and became a key national art school.

Shanghai Theatre Academy has trained nearly 10,000 art specialists and cultural management talents for the country, and a considerable part of them have become famous artists and high-quality professionals in the fields of drama, film and television, dance and fine arts with influence in China and even in the international arena, and have won many awards for drama, film and television, fine arts, opera and dance works.

Such as the "Five One Project Award", Wenhua Award, Golden Rooster Award, Hundred Flowers Award, Huabiao Award, Flying Apsaras Award, Golden Eagle Award, Golden Microphone Award, Golden Lion Award, Magnolia Award, Lotus Prize and so on, enjoying a wide range of reputation and influence at home and abroad.

Three, Nanjing Arts Institute

Nanjing Arts Institute is China's independent establishment founded the earliest and continues to this day, a century of higher art school, is the People's Republic of China *** and the State Ministry of Culture and Tourism and the Jiangsu Provincial People's Government **** construction of colleges and universities, but also in Jiangsu Province, high-level university peak program construction of colleges and universities, the comprehensive strength of the art disciplines ranked among the forefront of the national colleges and universities.

The school is the only institution of higher education in China that has the right to confer doctoral degrees and post-doctoral research stations in all five first-level disciplines under the discipline category of art at the same time. In the fifth round of discipline evaluation by the Ministry of Education, 80% of the disciplines entered the A category, and the traditional advantageous disciplines made a major breakthrough. For six consecutive years, the university has been ranked first in the list of arts disciplines in the Wushulian Chinese University Discipline Ranking.

Four, the People's Liberation Army Academy of the Arts

The Chinese People's Liberation Army Academy of the Arts Dance Department, dance art educational institutions. Founded in September 1960, is the Chinese people's liberation army art academy one of the earliest three departments established. There are two teaching levels: performance secondary school and performance, choreography, teacher college. Hu Guogang and Zhao Guozheng have served as department heads.

The department has trained a large number of excellent military dance talents for the Chinese People's Liberation Army.