沈芷华
沈芷华
Shen Zhihua
Ballet Instructor
Adult Ballet / Basic
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Ballet Instructor
Teaches · Adult Ballet / Basic
Shen Zhihua entered the Shanghai Dance School at the age of thirteen and graduated with distinction in ballet in 1966, becoming a professional ballet dancer. Firm yet caring, she tailors her teaching to each student and inspires them with her sunny outlook, patiently guiding adult learners of every background toward the line and elegance at the heart of ballet. “Life is made vivid by dance; the years are made radiant by love.”
Qualifications
- —Graduate with distinction, Shanghai Dance School ballet programme (1966)
- —Dancer, Shanghai Ballet Company & the “White-Haired Girl” production group
- —Toured Europe, America & Asia; repertoire incl. “The Red Detachment of Women”, “Swan Lake”, “Coppélia”
- —Instructor, Shanghai Dance School (1973–1975)
- —Choreographic team, Shanghai Ballet Company (from 1975)
- —Works at the Shanghai Spring Music Festival: “Ode to the Evergreen Pine”, “Sea Swallow”, “Hope”, “Farewell My Concubine”
- —Choreographer, Dance Trainer & Artistic/Stage Director, Tampines Arts Troupe (1991)
- —Singapore citizen (1992); taught at the National Dance Company, Southern Arts Research Association, NAFA & various schools
- —Instructor at Whampoa CC & Tampines CC
- —Author, the novel “Dancing Shoes Speak” (Singapore, 2015; published in China by the University of Science & Technology of China, 2016)
