The Dance Troupe of Nanjing Tech University was founded in 2006, and is now a provincial college student art group. There is 1 full-time instructor and 80 existing members. Since its foundation, the dance troupe has held large-scale performances on and off campus, creating several elaborate dance repertoires and giving wonderful performances.
The dance troupe won the first prizes in the 5th College Students’ Cultural Festival (“New Arirang Carol”), the 2nd, 3rdand 4thCollege Student Art Performance Competition of Jiangsu Province withMongolian Bowl Dance,Red Violet, andFlowers Bloomingrespectively. It has held special performances several times, and created more than 30 special programs such as “Beautiful Girls”, “Peacock Dance”, “Wolf Totem”, “A Gamu”, “Peacock Flies”, “Gorgeous Girls”, and “Peach Blossoms Beam”.
The dance troupe participated in several summer social practices for developing culture in rural areas such as Ganan, Jiangyin, and Binhu. The troupe has also performed at home and abroad, including the welcome ceremony of the athletes village of the 2nd Asian Youth Games (“Jasmine Flower” and “Youth Nanjing”), the “We are Jiangsu Youth” activity commemorating the centenary of the May Fourth Movement in Jiangsu Province. In addition, the dance troupe went to six Confucius Institutes in South Africa, Botswana and Namibia and gave the performances “Houyi and Chang’e”, “Thousand-Hand Bronzemen”, “Flowers Blooming” and “The Game” there. The dance troupe actively promotes aesthetic education on campus, and has performed in the university’s Evening Party for Freshmen, Graduation Party, Alumni Reunion and other large-scale activities for many years, and has been well received by teachers and students.
At present, the dance troupe has been gradually built into an outstanding college student art troupe with mature professional skills and a high reputation in Jiangsu Province, and will continue to build up the university’s “Art and Aesthetics” project and contribute to setting up a high-level university campus cultural environment.
