Beijing Dance Academy

Founded in 1954, Beijing Dance Academy is the first Professional Dance Academy established in New China. Dai Ailian, a patriotic overseas Chinese and famous dancer, was the first president of the Academy. In 1978, Beijing Dance Academy was officially approved by the Ministry of culture; in 1999, it was granted the right to confer a master's degree in dance; in 2005, it was granted the right to confer a master's degree in Art (MFA). In 2010, the college cooperated with Peking University to jointly train doctoral students, and in 2012, it cooperated with the Central Conservatory of music to train master students. At present, Beijing Dance Academy is the highest institution of dance education in China, and it is also the world's largest and most comprehensive Dance Academy.

essential information

Historical evolution

Beijing Dance School

In February 1954, the first batch of teachers of dance education in New China received systematic training from Soviet experts in a quadrangle in xiangbaihutong, Dongcheng District, which opened the prelude of Chinese dance education, namely the beginning of Beijing Dance Academy.

On September 6, 1954, Beijing Dance School held a "school building ceremony" in Baijiazhuang. Mao Dun, then Minister of culture, cut the ribbon for the school.

In 1955, the school participated in the World Youth Peace and friendship Festival Competition for the first time on behalf of China. Erdos, edited and directed by Jia Zuoguang, won the first international gold medal.

In 1956, the school put on the first Complete Ballet "useless caution".

In July 1958, the school successfully performed the Ballet Swan Lake for the first time.

In 1959, the school established China's first experimental ballet, the experimental ballet affiliated to Beijing Dance School, which is also the predecessor of the Central Ballet. In the same year, the school launched the first national dance drama "fish beauty" written and performed by itself.

In 1960, the school launched the first batch of teaching materials: "Chinese classical dance teaching method", "classical ballet basic training", "classical ballet duet teaching method". In the same year, under the instruction of Premier Zhou Enlai, China's first oriental music and dance class was established, which was the predecessor of the Oriental Song and dance troupe.

Beijing Dance Academy

In 1978, Beijing Dance School was transformed into "Beijing Dance Academy".

In 2000, Beijing Dance Academy was transferred to Beijing Municipal Administration.

In 2001, Beijing Dance Academy added musicals, art communication, art design and other disciplines.

 

School running conditions

Department major

According to the official website of the University in February 2020, the university has 12 teaching units and 11 undergraduate majors.

 

Discipline construction

According to the official website of the University in February 2020, the university has one first-class discipline and one professional master's degree authorization point.

 

Music and dance: the first level discipline authorized by master's degree

Professional master's degree authorization point: Art

Faculty

According to the official website of the University in February 2020, the university has nearly 600 teaching staff, more than 10 winners of the famous teacher award of Beijing universities, 2 national teaching teams and 4 Beijing teaching teams.

 

Famous teachers in Beijing: Sun Ying, pan Zhitao, Wang Mei, Han Chunqi, Gao Pan, yuan he, Li Chunhua, Pang Dan, Huang Yihua, song Haifang, Yang Yue, Li Shen and Zhang Junrong

 

Beijing excellent teacher: Tian Lu

 

First prize of the 11th young teachers' teaching basic skills competition in Beijing Universities: Ding Lin and Chi Dongdong

 

Teaching construction

quality engineering

According to the official website of the University in February 2020, the university has 3 national characteristic specialties, 2 national first-class undergraduate specialty construction sites, 1 provincial first-class undergraduate specialty construction site, 3 Beijing Municipal characteristic specialties, 1 national excellent course, 4 Beijing excellent courses, 1 National off campus talent training base and 3 Beijing Municipal experimental teaching demonstration center.

 

National Specialty: Dance science, dance director, dance performance

National first class undergraduate major construction point: dance director, dance performance

National off campus talent training base: National Grand Theater

Dance: the first-class undergraduate major in Beijing

Beijing Municipal Specialty: Dance science, dance director, dance performance

Beijing Municipal experimental teaching demonstration center: experimental theater of Beijing Dance Academy, Multimedia Laboratory of Beijing Dance Academy, garment printing room of Beijing Dance Academy

Teaching achievements

According to the official website of the school in February 2020, the school won 2 second prizes of national teaching achievements, 2 first prizes of Beijing Education and teaching achievements and 2 second prizes.

Art Research

Construction achievements

According to the official website of the University in February 2020, the university has obtained 6 national scientific research projects, 54 provincial and ministerial scientific research projects, 311 university level scientific research projects and 803 academic achievements during the 12th Five Year Plan period. From 2016 to 2017, it obtained 3 national scientific research projects, 24 provincial and ministerial scientific research projects, and 66 university level scientific research projects.

 

Scientific research platform

According to the official website of the University in February 2020, the university has established 1 Beijing Municipal Research Base of philosophy and Social Sciences and 11 school level research bases.

 

Beijing Municipal philosophy and social science research base (1): national dance culture research base.

 

China's China China Dance Center, Dunhuang dance culture research center, dance education research center, China ballet Research Center, China musical research and development center, China Sword culture and art research center, dance examination and teaching material innovation and Development Research Center, and all the other countries, 11 research bases. The center for traditional dance research, China Dance science research center.

 

Academic resources

Collection resources

According to the school's official website in February 2020, the library of Beijing Dance Academy has a collection of Chinese and foreign books, periodicals, e-books, audio and video tapes, CD ROMs, photos and loose pages, including 224728 paper books and 32694 audio and video products. It has built its own digital resource platform, including five databases of videos, pictures, program lists, newspaper clippings and papers, with a storage capacity of 8t and a total storage capacity of digital resources The amount of water can reach 12t.

Academic journals

Journal of Beijing Dance Academy is a dance academic journal sponsored by Beijing Dance Academy. It is a Chinese national level journal and an international standard serial publication. It covers basic dance theory research, dance education research, dance creation and performance research, dance science research and other columns.

 

Cooperation and exchange

In September 2004, the school successfully held an international dance education development forum attended by more than 30 experts and scholars from more than 20 countries.

In August 2010, the college and Peking University jointly hosted the 18th World Congress of aesthetics, which was attended by 800 scholars from more than 60 countries.

In June 2012, with the authorization and approval of Hanban, the world's first Confucius Institute for dance and performance, jointly built by the University of London and Goldsmith College, was officially established in the UK.

From 2006 to 2012, the school held four Biennial "Beijing International Dance Academy Ballet Invitational Competition".

From 2009 to 2013, the University, Taipei University of the arts and the University of Middlesex in the UK jointly held four consecutive "cross art dance without boundaries" projects.

 

Cultural tradition

Image logo

school badge

Interpretation of the school Emblem: the main graphic elements of the logo are drawn from the "Han painted brick dancers" in the Eastern Han Dynasty. Taking this figure as the creative element, it is intended to explore the profound and inheritance of dance culture, and to reflect the mission of Beijing Dance Academy for the development of Chinese dance career.

Historicity: the thick sense of history, the development course of symbol Dance Academy.

Culture: sense of dance culture origin, symbol, dance academy culture accumulation.

Professionalism: the dynamic of dance figure highlights the professionalism of dance and the characteristics of dance art.

Internationality: the combination of the refined traditional graphic element "Han brick dance figure" and simple circle is a group of pure international visual language symbols with strong readability, which can meet the communication needs of the image of the International Academy of dance.

The color of the sign is set to golden yellow, which means the fertile dance soil and bright future of the dance academy.

 

school flag

The school flag is a red rectangular flag with a yellow school emblem printed on the top and the name of Beijing Dance Academy printed in yellow and specified font on the bottom. Specification: 288cm × 192

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