Campus Introduction Beijing Dancing Academy is located in Haidian District, Beijing. It is the first municipal undergraduate institution established in New China to carry out professional dance education. It is known as the "Cradle of Dancers".

As of December 2014, the school covers an area of ??57,333 square meters (86 acres); it has 15 teaching institutions and offers 5 undergraduate majors; it has more than 500 faculty members, including 22 professors, 330 full-time teachers, and associate professors and above

There are 95 people with technical titles; there are about 3,500 full-time students and more than 400 students in the College of Continuing Education.

The college has nearly 600 faculty members and about 2,500 full-time students. There are about 700 correspondence students and more than 2,600 advanced students in the School of Continuing Education. The School of Dance Examination Education trains more than 30,000 dance examination teachers at home and abroad every year.

Nearly 300,000 students take the dance grade examination.

Beijing Dance Academy History In February 1954, the first batch of dance teachers in New China received systematic training from Soviet experts in a courtyard in Xiangyi Hutong, Dongcheng District, marking the beginning of Chinese dance education.

Beijing Dance Academy On September 6, 1954, the Beijing Dance School held its "founding ceremony" in Baijiazhuang. Mao Dun, then Minister of Culture, cut the ribbon for the school.

In 1955, the school represented China in the World Youth Student Peace and Friendship Festival for the first time, and "Ordos" directed by Jia Zuoguang won the first international gold medal.

In 1956, the school staged its first complete ballet, "Useless Caution."

In July 1958, the school successfully performed the world classic ballet "Swan Lake" for the first time, and the first white swan trained by the school was born: Bai Shuxiang.

In 1959, the school established China's first experimental ballet company, the Experimental Ballet Company Affiliated to Beijing Dance School, which was also the predecessor of the National Ballet of China. In the same year, the school launched its first self-written and self-performed national dance drama "The Fish Mermaid".

It marks that Chinese folk dance drama has entered a new stage of development.

In 1960, the school launched the first batch of teaching materials: "Chinese Classical Dance Teaching Method", "Classical Ballet Basic Training", and "Classical Ballet Pas de Deux Teaching Method".

These teaching materials later became model teaching materials for dance academies across the country; in the same year, under the instruction of Premier Zhou Enlai, China’s first Oriental music and dance class was established, which also became the predecessor of the Oriental Song and Dance Troupe, which is famous at home and abroad; in the same year, the school

For the first time, key teachers and outstanding graduates supported the local area and established a national key technical secondary school - Shanghai Dance School.

Beijing Dance Academy In 1962, in the dance competition of the World Youth Festival, student Chen Ailian won two gold medals for China in the world competition for the first time.

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

In 2000, the Beijing Dance Academy was transferred to the management of Beijing Municipality.

In 2001, Beijing Dance Academy added new disciplines such as musical theatre, art communication and art design.

Scientific Research Achievements Scientific Research Platform? As of December 2014, the school has established 1 Beijing municipal-level philosophy and social science research base, 1 national-level 2011 collaborative innovation center, and 8 school-level research bases.

Main Teaching Building Beijing Municipal Philosophy and Social Science Research Base (1): Ethnic Dance Culture Research Base National 2011 Collaborative Innovation Center (1): Chinese Ethnic Art Inheritance and Communication Collaborative Innovation Center School-level Research Base (8):

Platform for inheritance, protection, development and construction of dance culture, platform for creation, development and construction of dance works, platform for scientific development and application of dance body, platform for creative development and construction of dance, platform for innovative research on dance theory, platform for research on humanities and social sciences and dance education management, and information on dance figures

Resource rescue and protection research platform, Beijing university characteristic education resource library construction base (dance education special topic) Achievement Awards From 2005 to 2014, the school won a total of 3 first and second prizes for outstanding achievements in philosophy and social sciences in Beijing, and the National College Student Art Exhibition

2 second prizes for art education research paper awards in active universities.