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The Beijing Dance Academy (BDA, Chinese: 北京舞蹈学院) is a municipal public professional dance college at Haidian, Beijing. The academy is the highest institution for dance education and assessment in the People's Republic of China, conducting the nationwide teacher qualification level examinations in Chinese dance.
The Beijing Dance Academy was established as the Beijing Dance School (Chinese: 北京舞蹈学校) in 1954, and turned into the Beijing Dance Academy with the approval of State Council and the sponsorship of the Ministry of Culture in 1978. In 2000, its sponsorship was transferred to the Beijing Municipal People's Government. The Academy provides BA and MA degrees and has become the only institution of higher learning for professional dance education in China.

The Academy, known as "the Cradle of Dancers" (Chinese: 舞蹈家的摇篮) and adjacent to Zizhuyuan Park, Haidian District, has about 600 in-service faculty and staff, and 2,500 full-time students apart from over 5,000 students from the School of Continuing Education. Every year, the School of Dance Grade Education trains over 50,000 teachers of dance grade examination at home and abroad, and nearly 500,00 students take the examinations at different levels.
The Academy now provides such divisions as the Department of Chinese Classical Dance, the Department of Chinese Ethnic and Folk Dance, Ballroom dance Department, Ballet Department, Musical Department, Creative School (consisting of departments of Choreography, Modern Dance, Art Design), Humanities School (consisting of departments of Dance Studies, Art Communication, General Education, and Ideological and Political Science), Education School, BDA Youth Dance Company, School of Continuing Education, School of Dance Grade Examination and Affiliated Secondary School of BDA, involving academic areas of dance performance, dance studies, choreography, dance education, art design, etc.




Departments


The Department of Chinese Classical Dance
The Department of Chinese Ethnic and Folk Dance
The Ballet Department
The Department of Choreography
The Department of Dance Studies
The Department of Social Dance
The Department of Musical Theater
The Department of Art Communication
The Department of Art Design
The Education and Research Center for Modern Dance
The Department of Liberal Arts
Graduate Faculty
The School of Continuing Education
The School of Dance Grading Examination and Education
The Affiliated Secondary School of BDA
Youth Dance Company




Notable alumni


Xuan Lu – actress and professional ballet dancer
Chi Cao – male ballet dancer; Principal Dancer, Birmingham Royal Ballet; film actor and dancer, Mao's Last Dancer (2009)
Li Cunxin – male ballet dancer
Liu Shishi – television actress of The Young Warriors (2006), The Legend of the Condor Heroes (2008), The Heaven Sword and the Dragon Saber (2009), and most known for Scarlet Heart (2011)
Liu Yan – female classical dancer
Song Qian – idol, member of the South Korean girl group f(x); actress in China and Korea under the stage name Victoria Song
Wang Yan – television actress of My Fair Princess II and My Fair Princess III
Zhang Ziyi – actress
Wang Likun – television and film actress
Wei Wang – male ballet dancer; Principal Dancer, San Francisco Ballet
Zhang Huiwen – television and film actress
Huang Xuan – television and film actor
Dong Sicheng – Actor, model and member of the South-Korean group NCT and its China-based subunit WayV under the stage name WinWin
An Yuexi – film actress; graduated from Musical Theatre Department
Chengwu Guo – male ballet dancer
Wan Peng – television actress
Jiang Mengjie – actress
Ayanga – musical theater actor, dancer, and singer of Mongol ethnicity
Zheng Yunlong – musical theater actor and singer
Wang Yijin – idol and actress, member of BonBon Girls 303
Zhang Yifan – idol and actress, member of BonBon Girls 303
Zhao Xiaotang – idol and actress, former member of C-Pop girl group The9
Gina Jin – television and film actress
Li Yitong – actress and singer




References






External links


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