A class of their own
China DailyJia Meina, one of the teachers of the Fuzhou class, speaks at the reunion on March 29 in Beijing. Sun Qingsheng was assigned to take care of the students at the Beijing Dance Academy in 1993. In 1997, I visited some students when I traveled to Fuzhou and I was very happy to see that they took those dance pieces with them and performed them for the local audiences in Fuzhou," recalls Sun, who now is the vice-president of the National Academy of Chinese Theater Arts. According to Ba Tu, the Party secretary of Beijing Dance Academy, the warm feedback from Fuzhou Song and Dance Troupe motivated the school to enroll more students from around the country and establish similar classes, to benefit art education in more cities across China and to better prepare young dancers for their jobs after graduation. Among them, students from the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, Tibet autonomous region, Xiamen in Fujian, and Guizhou province, were enrolled to study at Beijing Dance Academy, who later found work with performing arts troupes in their hometowns after graduation.
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