1.Organization profile:

The dance discipline of Minzu University of China College of Dance (hereinafter referred to as “the College”) was founded in 1959. After more than 60 years’ development, it has built an education pattern with different education levels, including bachelor, master and doctoral education. It is a national-level base for key minority art disciplines and the cradle of Chinese ethnic dancers. The College devotes itself to cultivating highly specialized personnel with characteristics and comprehensive qualities and high practical and theoretical research abilities. It also takes up the heavy responsibility of inheriting, developing and carrying forward Chinese minority dance culture. Over the past decades, the College has cultivated thousands of outstanding dance talents, many of whom have become standouts in the field of Chinese dance. At present, the College’s Dance Performance and Dance Choreography majors are first-class majors in China. In the 2021 ShanghaiRanking’s Ranking of Academic Subjects, the College’s three majors were rated as “A+” majors and one rated as “A” major.

Currently, the College has a strong team of teachers who come from multiple ethnic groups, including old, middle-aged, and young teachers. Of them, there are 59 full-time teachers, 28 of whom have a senior professional title, including 11 professors, 19 associate professors, and 26 intermediate professional title holders. The percent of teachers with a senior professional title reaches 50.8%. There are 4 doctoral supervisors (including 1 part-time doctoral supervisor) and 30 master supervisors, including 14 academic master supervisors and 27 professional master supervisors.

Among the College’s teachers, there are many famous dance educators, choreographers and national-level performing artists who are well-known at home and abroad. They have absolute advantages in taking up the responsibility of cultivating high-level ethnic dance personnel. Over the past ten years, the College’s teachers made fruitful achievements in scientific research. They published 18 professional textbooks and hundreds of academic papers, including more than 80 papers published in journals of class B or above. In the latest 5 years, the College was approved to undertake more than 40 national, provincial and ministry-level research and teaching projects, of which 2 were funded by social science funds and 18 funded by national art funds. It also created more than 200 dance works. The dance works created, choreographed and performed by teachers of the College have won hundreds of gold, silver and bronze awards for creation and performance in the 1^st to 12^th “Taoli Cup” Dance Competition (Show) for National Art Colleges and Universities, the China Dance “Lotus Award” Competition, the National Dance Competition, and other international dance events in Singapore, Mongolia and the South Korea.

The College pays much attention to the construction of teachers’ morality and teaching style and it also keeps expanding its team of teachers. In recent years, teachers of the College have won a large number of honors. In 2018, the Ethnic Dance Education Teacher Team, which consists of core teachers of the College, was named “National Huang Danian-Type Teacher Team” first by the Ministry of Education. In 2019, the College was named “a National Model Collective for Ethnic Unity and Progress” by the State Council. In addition, in the latest three years, a number of teachers were named “Leading Talents of the National Ethnic Affairs Commission of the People’s Republic of China”, “Young Pioneers of the National Ethnic Affairs Commission of the People’s Republic of China”, “Youth Models in Beijing”, “Outstanding Teachers of Baosteel”, and “Talents in the Four Batches of Projects in Beijing” and won the “Outstanding Education Award of the school.

The College has contracted large domestic performances frequently. Its performers have been invited to dozens of countries in Asia, Europe, and North America as well as Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan for visits and performances. With a distinctive and unique dance style and superb performing arts, they have won high praise from foreign friends and met with China’s leaders. They have made a contribution to the inheritance, development and promotion of Chinese minority dance culture and the prosperous development of ethnic dance education.

2.Official website address:

https://wd.muc.edu.cn/

3.Contact person:

Liu Qiaohong  

Contact information:

68932735

4.Cooperation needs, areas and modes

Despite the COVID-19 epidemic, the College, as one of China-CEEC Dance Culture Union members, will discuss actively with China-CEEC Dance Culture Union members about new cooperation modes, provide an important sharing platform for China and CEEC, strive to push forward with the coordination for a series of concrete and pragmatic projects, actively carry out and expand exchange activities of profound significance, and lay a solid foundation for China and central and eastern European countries (“CEECs”) in the fields of dance, art and even cultural and art exchange so as to drive the dance and cultural exchange between China and CEECs to a new stage in the process of long-term cooperation and exchange. At the same time, we will make every effort to promote the dance and cultural exchange and art cooperation between China and CEECs towards the direction of normalization and institutionalization and facilitate the friendly exchange between the people of China and CEECs. The College is willing to make efforts to enhance the academic exchange and business cooperation among members of the China-CEEC Dance Culture Union and make a greater contribution to the future development of the union.

Cooperation areas: dance art practice and innovation; joint cultivation of dance professionals; pushing forward with public benefit-based dance education; and enable dance arts to serve the community, etc.

Cooperation modes: to regularly participate in meetings, activities, practical dance teaching and research work of the union; carry out various forms of publicity and promotion activities; continuously support the exchange of international students between the College and CEECs; create more excellent cross-cultural dance works by various ways of cultural exchange and further enhance China’s overall image of dance culture and arts.