The Shanghai Theatre Academy's showcase of its secondary units continues to shine in the golden autumn season. The "Dancing Elegance and Ambition: Celebrating Talents from the East" exhibition from the College of Dance is currently on display in the lobby of the Duanjun Theatre, serving as a special gift for the 25th anniversary of the College of Dance.
Over its 25 years, the College of Dance has advanced alongside our great motherland, with generations of dedicated dancers continually striving for excellence and cultivating a large number of outstanding dance talents for the nation. The college has created several remarkable dance works, including "Red," "Yellow River," "Fragrant Jasmine," and "Southern Yangtze" making significant contributions to the development of dance education and the art of dance both in Shanghai and nationwide.
Zhang Lin, the Party Secretary and Dean of the College of Dance, stated that this exhibition emphasizes "leading with high-quality party building" and comprehensively showcases the efforts and achievements of the colleges in areas such as faculty development, specialty construction, talent cultivation, academic research, student affairs, and social service. Xu Hui, the Deputy Secretary of the Party Branch, hosted the opening ceremony, where members of the party and administrative leadership explained each major section of the exhibition related to their responsibilities.
The showcase opened with the graceful dance performances of the students from the College of Dance. The ballet "Morning Song" and the science-art fusion piece "Leap Forward" infused the event with a captivating rhythm of "dance".
After touring the exhibition, Xie Wei, the Party Secretary of the Shanghai Theatre Academy, fully acknowledged the significant breakthroughs and commendable achievements the College of Dance has made in discipline construction, talent development, artistic creation and social service. He encouraged the College of Dance to further explore the relationship between discipline construction and talent training based on its existing foundation; to simultaneously strengthen simultaneous recruitment and cultivation in talent team building; and to continuously explore practical paths for training dance talents.
The members of the Shanghai Theatre Academy College of Dance will uphold the fundamental task of fostering virtue through education, telling the Chinese story through the language of dance, and with greater enthusiasm and more resolute belief, they will dance out the splendid chapters of the era and the spirit of the Shanghai Theatre Academy, and nurture more well-rounded dance talents who achieve comprehensive development in moral, intellectual, physical, aesthetic and labor education.
University leaders, heads of various colleges, departments and functional offices, as well as faculty and student representatives, attended the opening ceremony of this showcase.
