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Introduction of the Secondary Dance School Affiliated to the Shenyang Conservatory of Music
Updated: 2021-05-28 16:51:42

    The performance work "Latin show" by the students of the dance school was at the boutique dance party of Shenyang Conservatory of Music



    The first prize in the national "Tao Li Cup" Dance Competition "Butterfly Flying" by the students of the dance school



    The performance work "Jue Er" by the students of the Dance School was shortlisted for the national "Lotus Award" Dance Competition, and the "Tao Li Cup" Education and Teaching Achievement Award



    "Etudes" performed by students of the Dance School at the Shenyang Conservatory of Music boutique dance party



    The performance work "Playing-Flower" by students of Dance School was shortlisted for "National Excellent Dance Works Exhibition", the final evaluation of the National "Lotus Award", a small-scale funded project of "National Art Fund"



    The performance work "Children of the Stars" by students of Dance School was shortlisted for the national "Lotus Award" Dance Competition, a small-scale project funded by the "National Art Fund"



    The performance work "The Flower of the Mountain in the Battlefield Is Different Red" by students of Dance School


The Secondary Dance School Affiliated to Shenyang Conservatory of Music is one of the earliest dance schools established in China, the only one public dance school with a long history in northeast China and one of the initiators of the “Tao Li Cup” Dance Competition of the National Wenhua Arts Academy Award. Its predecessor can be traced back to the “Northeast Lu Xun Literature and Art College Dance Professional Class” established in 1948. In 1983, the Shenyang Conservatory of Music Affiliated Secondary Dance School was formally established with the approval of Liaoning Provincial People’s Government and is subordinate to the Liaoning Provincial Education Department. The school has four professional directions like Chinese dance, ballet, folk dance and international standard dance, with more than 1200 students now.


Since the establishment of our school, with a well-structured and strong faculty, more than a hundred students have won gold and silver medals in major international and domestic dance competitions and achieved remarkable results. In light of this, many dance artists who are well-known at home and abroad, thousand of dance performance talents who are famous in dance performance groups and art colleges are created. Our school has trained a large number of excellent dancers for literary and artistic groups in Tibet, Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang and the armies. At the same time, our school actively builds an international dance exchange platform, regularly hires famous teachers from home and abroad to teach at the school, selects top talents and outstanding students to go to foreign famous colleges and dance companies for further study and internship, further expanding the influence of our school’s international exchange and cooperation and making due contributions to China’s cultural undertakings and dance art education career.


After decades of teaching practice, our school has shaped the outstanding talent-training characteristics of “good skills, strong ability and practicality”. After being selected by the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism and the State Ethnic Affairs Commission, the school has been approved as one of the first "National Ethnic Culture Inheritance and Innovation Demonstration Sites" in China, and is also regarded as the "First Ethnic Minority Culture and Art Bases in Shenyang". With advanced teaching philosophy, remarkable teaching achievements, high-quality teaching environment and good academic atmosphere, the school is highly regarded in the dance industry and is known as the "cradle of dancers".