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Beijing Dance Academy
China

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Official website: http://www.bda.edu.cn
Tel：010-68935788,010-68451413
Address：No. 1 Wanshousi Road, Haidian District, Beijing
Beijing Dance Academy is a full-time general higher education institution whose main tasks are to cultivate high-quality dance talents, conduct high-level dance theory research and create works. The predecessor of the academy was Beijing Dance School, which was founded in 1954 and is the first professional dance school in New China. In 1978, Beijing Dance Academy was officially established with the approval of the State Council and is affiliated to the Ministry of Culture. In 2000, it was transferred to the Beijing Municipal People's Government. The academy 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 most comprehensive dance school, known as the "cradle of dancers". In recent years, the academy has continuously deepened the reform of dance education and teaching. It now has Chinese Classical Dance Department, Chinese National Folk Dance Department, Ballet Department, International Standard Dance Department, Musical Department, Creative College (including Choreography Department, Modern Dance Department, Art Design Department, Image New Media Center), Humanities College (including Dance Department, Art Communication Department, Art Theory Department), Education College, Ideological and Political Theory Teaching and Research Department, Continuing Education College, Affiliated Secondary Dance School and other teaching institutions, together forming a dance education system with Chinese characteristics. The college currently has nearly 600 faculty and staff members, nearly 2,300 full-time students (more than 1,300 undergraduates, nearly 200 postgraduates, and more than 800 students from the affiliated middle school), and the School of Continuing Education currently has more than 7,000 students in academic and non-academic education. The Dance Examination Institute trains more than 50,000 dance examination teachers at home and abroad each year, and nearly 500,000 students take dance grade examinations. In the 68 years since its establishment, the college has conscientiously implemented the party's education and literary and artistic policies, taking it as its mission to lead and promote the reform and development of China's dance education, and pursuing the value of "dancing for the people and making contributions to the times". It insists on cultivating people with moral integrity, fully fulfilling important functions such as talent training, scientific research, social services, cultural inheritance and innovation, and international exchanges and cooperation, and strives to build a world-class dance university with Chinese characteristics. School type: High-level characteristic dance art university Talent training goal positioning: Expand the leading advantage of dance performance talent training, focus on cultivating dance performance, choreography elite talents and high-end talents in dance education, research, and management. Service positioning: Based in the capital, serving the whole country, facing the world, and serving the economic and social development of the country and the capital. Development positioning: dance high-end talent training center, dance academic research center, dance work research and creation center, dance cultural inheritance and innovation center, dance digital education center, dance art education think tank.