Kungfu Street Dance
Introduction to the Shaolin Kungfu Street Dance Training Course of Shaolin Temple Xiaolong Kungfu Academy
As the recognized official “birthplace of Shaolin Kung Fu street dance,” Shaolin Temple Xiaolong Kung Fu Academy has been deeply engaged in the pioneering field of integrating Shaolin Kung Fu and dance for many years. Our institution pioneered a brand-new artistic form—a powerful martial arts dance fusion—that seamlessly combines traditional Chinese Shaolin Kung Fu with Western street dance culture. By doing so, we have created a highly unique kung fu street dance brand with distinct Central Plains characteristics, elevating the explosive kung fu fighting dance style into an important milestone in the innovative development of Chinese Shaolin Kung Fu on a global scale.
Relying directly on the academy’s more than 40 years of profound accumulation in Shaolin Kung Fu and our professional art teaching strength, the course successfully breaks down the rigid barrier between traditional Shaolin Kung Fu and modern street dance. This curriculum perfectly integrates the vigorous, disciplined spirit of Shaolin Kung Fu with the flexible, trendy elements of contemporary movement.
It not only inherits the absolute essence of traditional Chinese culture but also keeps up with international trends, providing students with highly professional, systematic, and characteristic training. This focus helps every single student achieve peak modern martial arts and fitness, boldly show their personality, and respectfully inherit ancient culture within the empowering rhythm of the music.
As the absolute pioneer of the global movement, Xiaolong Kung Fu Academy has jointly created this characteristic brand in direct partnership with the Henan Alliance of Street Dance Committee of the China Dancers Association. The core advantage of this specialized course is the academy’s deep foundation in authentic Shaolin Kung Fu and our diverse art-teaching strength. Unlike ordinary commercial institutions, our program truly achieves the ideal balance of “having a profound heritage in Shaolin Kung Fu and distinct characteristics in dance,” culminating in a breathtaking kung fu dance performance. This ensures that dedicated students learn not only external physical skills but also the internal spiritual core and deeply philosophical cultural connotation of authentic Shaolin Kung Fu.
Core Positioning of the Course: Coexistence of Shaolin Kungfu and Dance, Integration of Ancient and Modern
With the empowering, practical philosophy of “Shaolin Kung Fu as the bone and street dance trend as the soul,” this course completely abandons the superficial stacking of basic street dance skills. Instead, it deeply integrates the intense core strength methods, disciplined mechanics, and body rhythms of traditional Shaolin boxing with the precise rhythm control and movement skills of street dance. This creates a highly distinctive martial arts dance fusion—an explosive kung fu fighting dance characterized by “combining hardness with softness and integrating Chinese and Western elements.”
This welcoming curriculum perfectly retains the powerful momentum, strict structural alignment, and authentic combat heritage of Shaolin Kung Fu while integrating the free flexibility and trendy elements of urban street dance. As a result, respectful students can deeply feel the exciting, empowering collision between traditional culture and modern art during their dancing. This successfully realizes the dual training goals of mastering modern martial arts and fitness while confidently dancing to show one’s true personality, simultaneously cultivating a profound sense of cultural confidence and deep artistic appreciation within every dedicated student.
As a core characteristic course of the Film and Television Art Department of Xiaolong Kung Fu Academy, the empowering kung fu street dance program develops in strict, disciplined coordination with specialized courses like Shaolin Kung Fu routines, cinematic performance, and traditional Chinese dance, forming a deeply diversified art teaching system. At present, it serves as a brilliant cultural calling card for our academy. Our dedicated student groups have appeared on top-tier national stages like CCTV and the National Centre for the Performing Arts, delivering many a breathtaking kung fu dance performance that has won prestigious awards at home and abroad, fully demonstrating the exceptional professional level and unique charm of this course.
Core Advantages of the Course: Relying on the Academy's Strength to Create a Professional Benchmark
Authoritative Teaching Team, Escort with Both Shaolin Kungfu and Dance Excellence
Relying on the unparalleled, empowering teaching force of Xiaolong Kung Fu Academy, the course features a highly specialized dual-teacher team combining “Shaolin Kung Fu coaches + professional street dance instructors.” This respectful approach beautifully balances strict professionalism with creative innovation, setting a new standard for authentic kung fu street dance:
Shaolin Kung Fu Coaches: All of our dedicated coaches are proven champions of competitions at or above the provincial level who hold elite qualification certificates. Several are distinguished members of the legendary Eighteen Arhats of Shaolin. Profoundly proficient in traditional boxing, authentic weapons, specialized strength skills, and disciplined body control, they are directly responsible for teaching the core mechanics and strength logic of traditional martial arts, laying a rock-solid physical foundation. They respectfully inherit the true Shaolin spirit and continue our philosophy of “teaching students in accordance with their aptitude through warm education,” patiently guiding every single student to awaken their potential.
Professional Street Dance Instructors: Operating in welcoming cooperation with elite teachers from the Henan Street Dance Alliance, our instructors possess years of practical experience in teaching and professional stage exhibition. They are absolute experts in urban styles—including breaking, popping, and hip-hop—and remain deeply familiar with international trends. They are strictly responsible for teaching rhythm control, modern movement choreography, and elite stage presence, deeply integrating authentic martial elements to create a breathtaking kung fu dance performance and exclusive routines found only at Xiaolong Kung Fu Academy.
This empowering dual-teacher cooperative model ensures the absolute solidity of a student’s martial foundation while guaranteeing the modern professionalism of their artistic skills. It makes the ultimate martial arts dance fusion smooth, natural, and highly cohesive, completely avoiding the common problem of disconnection between combat and rhythm. We truly achieve a powerful, practical teaching effect where the integration of discipline and expression becomes undeniably greater than the sum of its parts.
Systematic Course System, Suitable for Students of All Ages
Combining the core, philosophical teaching policy of “equal emphasis on culture and Shaolin Kung Fu, equal attention to skills and morality,” our academy has built a deeply systematic curriculum flowing smoothly from basic to advanced levels. Perfectly suited for dedicated students aged 5 to 25, we embrace both interest-based entry and elite professional tracks. Whether a student is a complete beginner seeking modern martial arts and fitness, or an experienced practitioner looking to respectfully follow a professional career path, they will find an empowering curriculum designed for their journey:
Children’s Enlightenment Class (Ages 5-8): Focusing primarily on cultivating early interest, this inviting class integrates basic combat steps and simple boxing movements with foundational rhythms. It systematically cultivates students’ physical coordination, sense of rhythm, and dynamic artistic expressiveness. We pay close, respectful attention to positive habit formation, allowing young children to experience the pure joy of integrating movement in a relaxed, pleasant atmosphere that perfectly matches their developmental characteristics.
Adolescent Improvement Class (Ages 9-16): This disciplined level deepens the functional integration of traditional body methods and rhythmic skills. Students learn complex movement choreography, combined routines, and intensive stage training to master the explosive kung fu fighting dance. Simultaneously, it combines our historical competition concepts to cultivate a healthy, resilient fighting spirit and vital team cooperation, allowing students to respectfully participate in high-level performances and academy competitions to elevate their overall quality.
Adult Professional Class (Ages 17-25): This rigorous track focuses strictly on professional career improvement, in-depth study of advanced integration skills, and executing high-difficulty movements combining combat and rhythm. We carry out highly targeted stage choreography and advanced competition guidance, perfectly suited for dedicated students wanting to pursue professional commercial performance or become certified coaches. It provides highly diversified, empowering development paths relying directly on the academy’s extensive, world-class resources.
Professional Advanced Class (No Age Limit): Designed specifically for exceptional, disciplined students with a strong foundation actively pursuing elite athletic and artistic mastery. These practitioners are guided one-on-one by core master teachers, focusing entirely on polishing competition pieces and breathtaking professional works. They are directly recommended for provincial and national competitions as well as TV program recordings, empowering students to realize their grand artistic dreams while respectfully continuing our proven talent training model of “selection-training-output.”
Top Teaching Support, Ensuring Teaching Quality
Covering a massive, empowering area of over 500 mu, Xiaolong Kung Fu Academy has deliberately equipped the course with first-class, modern teaching facilities. This respectfully ensures an optimal learning experience and maximum physical training effects for those pursuing true modern martial arts and fitness:
Professional Training Venues: We are equipped with multiple standard dance training rooms and a massive, awe-inspiring 5,000-square-meter performance hall. The training floors are completely paved with professional non-slip mats and fully outfitted with theater-grade audio and lighting equipment. This accommodates all rigorous needs, including daily discipline, complex movement choreography, and large-scale rehearsals for any kung fu street dance in a safe, welcoming, and highly empowering environm
Diversified Practice Platforms: Relying heavily on the resources of the academy’s world-renowned Performance Troupe and Film and Television Art Department, we purposefully provide students with exceptionally rich, real-world practice opportunities. These include grand campus performances, provincial, municipal, and national competitions, major TV program recordings, and international cultural exchanges. Much like our primary troupe, which respectfully visits over 80 countries globally all year round, our students can confidently display the unique, expressive charm of their elite kung fu dance performance across these massive, empowering global platforms.
Improved Supporting Services: We strictly and respectfully implement our signature “warm education” model, where classes are guided by full-time head teachers who meticulously follow up on learning progress and physical health. They take excellent, compassionate care of both the intensive training and daily lives of our students, providing comprehensive services covering safety guarantees, competition registration, and intricate choreography. This empowers students to train with profound peace of mind, focusing entirely on their elite martial arts dance fusion within a relaxed, harmonious, and highly safe learning environment.
Rich Teaching Achievements, Demonstrating Professional Strength
Since the opening of this empowering training course, relying on the deep teaching strength and distinct resource advantages of Xiaolong Kung Fu Academy, it has achieved remarkable results. We have proudly become the definitive, industry-leading benchmark for integrating orthodox Shaolin discipline with dynamic dance teaching:
Competition Honors: Our original, highly disciplined programs, such as Shuimu Nianhua, Wu Gong, and Wu Feng Wu Yun, have won numerous top awards across highly regarded activities. Triumphs at Henan TV’s Stars Shine in China, CCTV’s Qun Ying Hui, the National Centre for the Performing Arts’ Wu Dian Hua Zhang, and the prestigious World WDJ Street Dance Competition demonstrate the undeniable elite level of our explosive kung fu fighting dance curriculum.
Practice and Display: Disciplined students have respectfully participated in the academy’s annual achievement reports, large-scale live-action outdoor performances, and vital international cultural exchange activities numerous times. They have successfully executed impromptu interactive exchanges with the prominent Fujian-Yunnan Street Dance Inspection Group, revealing the deeply unique, practical charm of our training methods. Furthermore, outstanding practitioners have directly participated in professional film shootings, proudly inheriting our fine tradition of cultivating the world’s most elite action talent.
Talent Output: The program has powerfully and successfully cultivated a vast number of outstanding students possessing both elite Shaolin mastery and dynamic urban skills. Many disciplined graduates are successfully admitted to professional art colleges, join commercial dance troupes, or become highly certified coaches themselves. This perfectly continues our fundamental, welcoming purpose of transporting excellent talents to society, while simultaneously supplying high-quality, practical talent directly back into the academy’s own globally respected Performance Troupe and Film Art Department.
Characteristic Highlights of the Course: Different from Ordinary Street Dance, Showing Xiaolong's Characteristics
Authentic Shaolin Heritage: Relying on the profound, historical lineage of Shaolin Kung Fu at Xiaolong Kung Fu Academy, students do not just learn ordinary kung fu street dance; they systematically and respectfully master the core principles of traditional martial arts. This rigorous training exercises deep physical strength, vital flexibility, explosive power, and dynamic coordination, proudly shaping a straight, healthy posture. It simultaneously inherits the empowering internal Shaolin spirit of “perseverance, self-discipline, and modesty,” which stands in sharp, practical contrast to ordinary commercial training institutions that completely lack a true cultural core.
In-depth Integration of Shaolin Kung Fu and Dance: Our disciplined style is absolutely not a simple, superficial combination of random poses and street dance movements. Instead, it carefully and philosophically integrates the internal power generation methods, breath mechanics, and rhythmic body flows of Shaolin Kung Fu into every single movement of the choreography. This creates an empowering, highly specialized martial arts dance fusion defined by “both Shaolin’s vigor and street dance’s flexibility,” forming an exclusive, copyrighted kung fu fighting dance intellectual property for Xiaolong Kung Fu Academy while respectfully pioneering this global art.
Diversified Development Paths: Powerfully combining the academy’s extensive film, television, commercial performance, and athletic competition resources, we provide dedicated students with a complete, empowering full-chain career path.
Whether a student treats this as a deeply creative hobby, a professional development path, or a stepping stone for a cinematic debut and elite kung fu dance performance, they respectfully receive our all-around support. This practically continues the academy’s peerless talent training advantage that has successfully cultivated global film and television action stars such as Shi Xiaolong and Jiang Luxia.
Training with Equal Emphasis on Skills and Morality: Continuing the strict, philosophical school motto of “equal emphasis on culture and Shaolin Kung Fu, equal attention to skills and morality” of Xiaolong Kung Fu Academy, our expert instructors pay close attention to cultivating each student’s sense of iron discipline, teamwork, respect, and deep gratitude while teaching physical skills. This empowers students to not only improve their physical techniques but also shape an upstanding moral character, truly realizing the comprehensive, all-round benefits of modern martial arts and fitness.
Relevant Course Information
Recruitment Target: We openly and respectfully welcome disciplined students aged 5 to 25 from all over the world. Absolutely no prior foundation or experience is required, and there is no gender limit. It is perfectly designed for anyone who deeply loves rhythmic movement, respects Shaolin Kung Fu, and wants to powerfully improve their modern martial arts and fitness, core strength, and dynamic artistic expressiveness.
Teaching Mode: We utilize highly specialized, disciplined small-class teaching formats (limited to 15–20 students per class) to ensure premium teaching quality and direct, respectful attention from master coaches. One-on-one empowering courses are fully available for dedicated students focusing on professional career improvement and elite kung fu fighting dance competition preparation. Daily classes, weekend sessions, and intensive holiday bootcamps are flexibly scheduled to perfectly adapt to the modern time arrangements of every dedicated student.
Teaching Location: Situated directly on the empowering main campus of Shaolin Temple Xiaolong Kung Fu Academy, located within the beautiful, historic hinterland of Songshan Shaolin in Dengfeng City. Relying on the core, disciplined teaching area of the academy, the environment offers a profound, peaceful atmosphere adjacent to the original Shaolin Temple, respectfully allowing students to completely immerse themselves in the philosophical charm of Zen culture.
Course Benefits: All students receive free, highly professional training clothes and specialized gear immediately upon welcoming registration. Outstanding, disciplined students receive priority recommendations to respectfully join the academy’s elite Performance Troupe and our Film and Television Art Department, allowing them to confidently participate in high-profile commercial events, national competitions, and breathtaking kung fu dance performance shootings. Every student receives personalized, empowering development planning from professional master teachers and respectfully enjoys all relevant preferential policies.
Course Philosophy
“Conveying dance through Shaolin Kung Fu, spreading Shaolin Kung Fu through dance, and inheriting the Shaolin cultural context while confidently leading the modern international trend.”
The empowering kung fu street dance training course of Xiaolong Kung Fu Academy successfully and respectfully breaks the boundary between ancient tradition and modern pop culture. It completely rejuvenates authentic Shaolin Kung Fu within the vibrant, welcoming trend of modern urban movement. This allows every single disciplined student to powerfully release their inner vitality, temper their physical willpower in the rhythm, and become both a confident pioneer of modern trends and a proud inheritor of excellent traditional Chinese culture.
Relying on more than 40 years of profound educational accumulation at Xiaolong Kung Fu Academy and our empowering core advantage as the absolute birthplace of this unique martial arts dance fusion, we rely strictly on professional teachers, systematic courses, unmatched facilities, and rich real-world practice. We passionately help every dedicated student realize their grandest artistic dreams, respectfully letting our specialized disciplines advance onto the world’s broadest stages, and confidently writing an enduring, practical new chapter in the masterful integration of ancient combat and modern expression!
