About us

Principal

MA, BA, CDES

Ocean Fan Lu: My passion for dancing started very early in my life; my twin sister, Rain, and I were often dancing in my mother’s belly even before we were born, so we were told. My mother, who is a professional opera singer and a great dancer, has always loved Chinese Theatre and performing arts. Dancing and the urge to perform are in my blood.

When I was five, I started a series of systematic and professional Chinese dance training at Taiyuan Youth Palace, Yinghe Youth Performing Arts Troupe. I had the great honour to have Ling Bai, who is a very well-known dancer and choreographer in Haiwa Children Ensemble, as my teacher. From her, I have learned the basic dance techniques, and the fundamental Chinese dance moves. When I was 8 years old, my twin sister, Rain and I were chosen among 500 children to join the Huang River Chinese Children Performing Arts Ensemble. For many of the following years, I gained many valuable performing experiences, learned many dances, and grew into a very confident and expressive performer. When I went to university in China, I was again selected into the university dance team, and soon became the director and Choreographer of the group. Our team won many dance awards, and I was honored to have won the Young Leader Award of the Year and a number of Choreographer Awards. I have never stopped  improving my dancing and choreographing skills; I had the great pleasure to learn Chinese Classical dance from the Famous dancer and performer, Jing Di Zhang, who played the first generation of  Yin Niang in the legendary pantomime, SiLu Huayu. In addition, I spent all of my spare time learning Chinese Choreography regularly in Beijing Dance Academy.

When I moved to Victoria in 2001, I have also explored many other different dances, such as Ballet, Jazz and ball-room dance. However, Chinese dance is in my blood and I felt such an urge to perform and teach others to learn this great type of arts. I formed Ocean Rain Chinese Dancers in the year of 2002, and started to introduce Chinese dance to the Victoria community. I feel greatly rewarded with the surprising number of enthusiastic cheers, applauses and compliments from our audience.

Recently, I have become the certified teacher of Chinese Dance Examination Syllabus (CDES) of Beijing Dance Academy. CDES was recognized by the BC Ministry of Education. The ministry will award CDES students with a total of 12 credits to meet their fine arts and/or applied skills graduation requirement. This is indeed good news, and allows not only me becoming a more professional Chinese dance educator, but also allow Syllabus students to earn even more credits toward their high school graduation.

Honorary Principal: Dr. Min Li

Soprano, Vocal Music Professor

名誉校长: 李敏教授

声乐教授, 表演艺术家

中央戏剧学院表演系教授，现为中国戏剧家协会会员。

中国音乐家协会会员，中国青年音乐家协会理事，中国武术家协会会员。

1983年毕业于中央音乐学院声乐歌剧系。曾得到女高音歌唱家、声乐教育家喻宜萱教授、邓映易教授和叶佩英教授的悉心指教。

发表过《美声歌唱》、《中国音乐教育的连续性与专业性》、《声乐与台词教学元素的有机结合》等多篇论文；参与编著《声乐基础教程》。

曾荣获第二届《全国青年歌手电视大奖赛》“新人奖”和“三等奖”，被聘为中央电视台特邀演员，参演多场电视台文艺晚会；多次在“高等艺术院校声乐教材演唱会”等音乐会中担当独唱。曾在多部歌剧，如《白毛女》、《蝴蝶夫人》；多部话剧，如《海霞》、《向阳人家》等剧中饰演主要角色。2005年录制《李敏独唱专集》。

曾独立改编导演音乐剧《兰花花》；担任多部音乐童话剧，如《文那呀，从树上下来吧》、《饼干人》的声乐指导；担任多部话剧，如《红白喜事》的音乐设计。近年来，主要担任表演专业、导演专业的声乐教学和音乐剧声乐表演教学。先后被多所艺术院校聘为客座教授。

2001年受学院委派赴日本四季剧团交流音乐剧的教学与实践；2004年曾赴香港演艺学院访问交流。1986年记立“社会主义劳动贡献”个人三等功，1992年入选《中国当代教育名人》。2004年被评为院“先进工作者”。

Rain Jing Lu

Vice-Principal

MD, MSc , RD Candidate, CDES

Choreographer/Instructor/CDES Certified Teacher