I’m somebody who's not a China scholar
I did not study China before I got here
So it was all brand new to me
And Shanghai is an amazing city that
Embraces you, it actually engulfs you, and the exciting cultural experience here
NYU Shanghai is the classic example of an NYU program
Its school is fabulous in this building and it's very cozy and compact
And you'll feel very comfortable while you're in the building
It allows you the kind of base to go out
And expand yourself and experience all aspects of the city
Whether it’s in arts whether it’s in culture
Just being in and among the people of Shanghai is really a fabulous experience
And the base here at NYU Shanghai gives you that confidence and the ability to go out
And experience the city with all its magnificent things that it has to offer towards you
The courses that we offer at Shanghai
Are based in the Chinese culture and tradition and the contemporary world that we find here
Since we connect between Shanghai, China, and the global culture
In NYU Shanghai, what’s most important is dialogue
A dialogue between you
Yourself to the society
And dialogue between different cultures
And dialogue between aesthetics and social practice
Shikumen is a very typical architecture but not only for its function as a house
It’s really, it’s a culture
During development, so the Shikumen are being torn down
We use traditional forms like ink rubbing making a cardboard dipping it in ink
Traced on the rice paper in front of those old stones
Bricks from the Shanghai Shikumen hundred years
We have a variety of different music courses
We have a lot of applied music
We have guzhen, erhu, bamboo flute
We also teach piano in group lessons and at three different levels
Intermediate, beginner, and advanced
And we also teach private lessons in piano
We have private voice, we have group voice, we have chorale
In the fall of 2019, we will have a select vocal ensemble
We have a chamber orchestra
And in the fall of 2019 will have a select instrumental ensemble
And the select ensemble will be reserved for the better students
We teach four classes here in NYU Shanghai regarding dance
First is ballet
Second is contemporary dance
Third is choreography and performance
And our last class is Chinese minority and folk dance
We have many study away students who spend their year here taking only dance classes
And we also have many students
Who throughout the matriculation at NYU Shanghai minor in the dance program
Part of the dance program is being able to perform in public
At the end of the year, for every semester
All dance classes perform together for a live audience
We also have a series called “Dance for Camera”
This is where any student can volunteer
And help us create a piece of work
Involving dance in the museum, on the street, inside different communities
And even inside monasteries
It's a very life changing experience for some of our students
我在上海纽约大学教授中国民族民间舞蹈课
这是纽约大学唯一的一门中国民族民间舞蹈课程
包括维吾尔族、朝鲜族、藏族、蒙古族
帮助来自世界各地的学生了解和融入到中国少数民族舞蹈文化当中
IMA is an undergraduate program here at NYU Shanghai
IMA stands for Interactive Media Arts
So a lot of our classes are centered around the intersection of art
Design, and technology
And we have a lot of classes which are kind of thing with new media
So in the past we've had students kind of come from all across the NYU network
Including students from Tisch
They have taken classes in our Interaction Lab
As well as our Communication Lab which are foundation classes at IMA
We've also had students take classes in design
Like Design Thinking as well as other classes
I am a senior at NYU
I usually study at the New York campus and I’m in the drama department
This is my only semester in NYU Shanghai
I have been here for the past couple of months
The most of what I'm studying is in the Interactive Media Arts department or IMA for short
The main class that I'm working with here
Is the Realtime Audiovisual Performance Systems class
Which is a mouthful or RAPS for short
And that's a lot about projection and creating sounds and projection on the computer
The accommodations are really nice
I actually have a really really big room, like bigger than my New York spaces
So I'm very comfortable and it's very convenient
There's a bus that goes back and forth like constantly
So one of my favorite things about this campus is that
It's a lot smaller than the New York campus
Just physically it's all in one building
As opposed to spread out and that's been so wonderful
It's a much smaller community
You like see all of the same people all of the time
And even if you don't know someone
You'll see them like three times in a week
And you'll get to know them that way
And then besides that it's just very academically focused here
Not that New York isn't
But here it's like everyone is taking all of their work really seriously
The classes are extremely challenging
But in a way where it feels like there's a bunch of different support systems
Like there's language center. There's the writing center
So even as I feel like I have more work than maybe I've ever had in college
There's also a bunch of systems in place that are helping me deal with all of those things
Welcome to NYU Shanghai in particular. We are so happy to have you here!