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Introduction of the Dance Academy
Updated: 2021-05-28 16:55:37

    The teachers and students of the Dance Academy participated in the performance "Chinese People Struggle!" in the Great Hall of the People to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China, Group photo of all teachers and students with national leaders



    Wu Xiaobang, a great master, dance artist, and theoretician of Chinese dance art, came to our school to guide the work.



    The famous dance educator Chen Jinqing came to our school to guide the work.



    Frank Andersen, a world-renowned ballet master, former artistic director of the Royal Danish Ballet, and representative scholar of the Bournonville School, and his assistant Sasha Eva came to our school for teaching exchanges



    Dance Academys group dance "Grand Opera at the Door of Grandmothers House" won the first prize of performance and first prize of creation in the 9th "Tao Li Cup" Dance Competition of Wenhua Art Academy Awards



    Dance Academys group dance "Lu Yi Fanghua" won the teaching achievement award of the 12th "Tao Li Cup" Education and Teaching Achievement Exhibition



    Students of the Dance Academy participated in the theatrical performance "The Great Journey" to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, performing the classic dance "Red Silk Dance"



    Dance Academy students participate in large-scale scene music and dance epic "Ode to Red Rhyme"


The predecessor of Shenyang Conservatory of Music Dance Academy can be traced back to the “Northeast Lu Xun Academy of Literature and Art Dance Training Class” established in Shenyang, 1948. The Department of Dance was established in 1988 to provide higher dance professional education. Undergraduate dance education was founded in 1995 and the Dance Academy was established on the basis of the Department of Dance in 2005. In 2006, our school was approved by the Academic Degree Committee of the State Council to confer a master’s degree in dance. Thus, it has formed a tertiary dance art education system with articulated undergraduate and postgraduate education and is an educational base for cultivating undergraduate dance art talents in Liaoning province, a senior dance art college that provides dance performance, education, creation and research talents. There are more than 1000 students and 276 teachers at present.


The Dance Academy of the Shenyang Conservatory of Music is equipped with strong teacher resources, complete professional settings and outstanding specialties, with three majors of dance performance, dancology and dance choreography, covering seven departments of Chinese classical dance, ballet, Chinese folk dance, international standard dance, dance choreography, modern dance and dance education. The major of dance performance was approved as “Liaoning province Comprehensive Reform Experimental Major” in 2014 and this major received the approval as “Liaoning province First-class Undergraduate Education Demonstration Profession” in 2019. Then in 2020, dancology and dance choreography majors were granted as “Liaoning province Demonstration Profession”. In addition, the Department of Chinese classical dance, which is a “Liaoning General Undergraduate Demonstration Program”, the Department of Ballet, which is a "Liaoning Outstanding Teaching Team", the Department of Dance Choreography, which is a "Liaoning Excellence Course", and the Department of Chinese Folk Dance, which is a "Typical Northeast Regional Characteristics", are all included. The Dance Academy has formed a complete and systematic teaching and academic research characteristics in disciplinary construction and is known as “Liaoning Dance Phenomenon” in the dance industry, exerting important influence in China.


Over the years, adhering to the school motto of “Tension, Seriousness, Diligence and Modesty”, the Dance Academy has been committed to promoting and spreading advanced dance culture as well as highlighting regional characteristics based in the northeast. With our strong teaching strength and advanced teaching principles, our school of dance has become an important base for cultivating tertiary dance talents and promoting dance quality education in China, thereby shouldering the important mission of educating professional dance talents, scientific research, serving the society, cultural inheritance, innovation, international exchange and cooperation in the new era.