上海歌舞团，成立于1979年6月，2009年11月转企改制，创作演出中国民族舞剧、舞蹈、声乐作品。

自建团以来，上海歌舞团积累了众多艺术精品：大型服饰舞蹈《金舞银饰》、舞剧《闪闪的红星》《野斑马》《霸王别姬》《花木兰》《舞台姐妹》《一起跳舞吧》《朱鹮》、舞蹈诗剧《天边的红云》等十余部舞剧作品；中华鼓舞《龙之声》、舞集《满庭芳》《这些年，我们跳的舞》《在路上》《天地人》以及《心中的歌》《乘着歌声的翅膀》《相约春天》等数十台专场作品；《根之雕》《当代节奏》《夜深沉》《秀色》《大地》《听见身体》《傣家的女儿傣家的雨》《蒲公英》《只为途中与你相见》《天浴》《漫·慢》《彼时此刻》《秋日》《看不见的墙》等百余个舞蹈节目。

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剧团人才济济，荣典·首席演员朱洁静、王佳俊，首席演员方光、侯腾飞、邓韵、王景等一批在国内外舞蹈业界具有重要影响的青年舞蹈家，领衔众多独舞、领舞、群舞演员，构成了梯队式的人才队伍。出访美国、加拿大、墨西哥、阿根廷、英国、法国、德国、俄罗斯、意大利、丹麦、波兰、捷克、奥地利、爱尔兰、澳大利亚、新西兰、日本、韩国、新加坡、土耳其、泰国、马来西亚、哈萨克斯坦、越南、摩洛哥、匈牙利、古巴、秘鲁等国家及港澳台地区演出，舞剧《金舞银饰》《野斑马》《霸王别姬》《朱鹮》等作品享誉世界舞台。

Founded in Jun. 1979, Shanghai Dance Theatre (SDT) completed the enterprise restructuring of sate-owned art troupes in Nov. 2009. SDT is committed to creating Chinese national dance dramas, contemporary dances, vocal music productions, instrument music productions, etc.

Since its foundation, SDT has accumulated a large number of high-quality artistic productions such as the grand costumes dance drama Golden Dances & Silver Costumes, dance dramas Shinning Red Star, Wild Zebra, Farewell to My Concubine, Hua-Mulan, Stage Sisters, Let’s Dance Together, Crested Ibises, grand dance epic The Red Clouds over the Horizon, etc. SDT has created a number of special gala shows including Dragon Sound, Fragrance, The Dances We Danced, On the Road, Sky, Earth and People, The Songs in the Heart, On the Wings of Song, Date in Spring, etc. SDT has also created over 100 dance pieces such as Root Carving, Contemporary Rhythm, Deep Night, Beauty, Earth, Listen to the Body, The Girls and the Rain of the Dai Nationality, Dandelion, Only for Meeting with You on the Way, Heaven Bath, Wandering, Moment, Autumn, Invisible Walls etc.

SDT has received many awards and honors including China Five Projects Award by the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the CPC, China National Stage Art Fine Works Project Award, Splendor Award by China Ministry of Culture, gold prize of Lotus Award of China National Dance Competition, gold prize of Chinese National Minority Dance Competition, first prize of Professional Dance Competition of East China, award of Shanghai Fine Art Creation, and so forth.

SDT has a pool of talents such as the chief dancers with honor and glory Zhu Jiejing, Wang Jiajun, chief dancers Fang Guang, Hou Tengfei, Deng Yun, Wang Jing, who are all famous young dancers and own global appeal. Besides, there are a large number of excellent soloist dancers, leading dancers and group dancers constituting the high-quality dance talents in echelon. They have visited the USA, Canada, Mexico, Argentina, U.K, France, Germany, Russian, Italy, Denmark, Poland, Czech Republic, Austria, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Korea, Singapore, Turkey, Thailand, Malaysia, Kazakhstan, Socialist Republic of Vietnam, Morocco, Hungary, Cuba, Peru, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, etc. Dance dramas such as Golden Dances & Silver Costumes, Wild Zebra, Farewell to My Concubine, Crested Ibises are all famous and have got great reputation on a global scale.