吉林艺术学院舞蹈系成立于1959年,历经四十余年的建设、改革与发展,现已成为东北地区培育舞蹈艺术人才的重要基地。回顾舞蹈系四十余年的发展历程,她经历了创业伊始的困顿前行,十年浩劫的步履维艰,深化教育改革后的加速发展,进入新世纪后的渐入佳境。从仅有7名教师、五十余名学生发展到今夭拥有校本部与联合办学北区两个教学区域的四十余名教职工和近五百名在籍学生的规模。四十余年来,舞蹈系共为国家培养舞蹈艺术人才近千人,获国际金奖1项,国家级奖励二十余项,省部级奖 Jilin University of the Arts Dance Department was established in 1959, after more than 40 years of construction, reform and development, has become an important base for cultivating dance talent in Northeast China. After reviewing the development of the dance for more than 40 years, she experienced the hard work at the beginning of her undertaking. After a decade of catastrophe, she was struggling to deepen the accelerated development after the education reform and gradually became better after entering into the new century. From a mere seven teachers and more than fifty students, the scale of over forty faculty and nearly five hundred students studying in the two teaching areas of the North Campus of the Joint School and the Joint Department has been abolished. For more than 40 years, the dance department has trained nearly 1,000 dance talents for the country, won 1 international gold prize, more than 20 state-level awards and provincial-level awards