Baku Choreography Academy (), BCA for short, formally Baku Choreography School (), is a high school in

Baku Baku (, ; az, Bakı ) is the capital and largest city of Azerbaijan, as well as the largest city on the Caspian Sea and of the Caucasus region. Baku is located below sea level, which makes it the lowest lying national capital in the world a ...

, Azerbaijan, specialized in general, secondary and higher education programs in the field of

choreography Choreography is the art or practice of designing sequences of movements of physical bodies (or their depictions) in which Motion (physics), motion or Visual appearance, form or both are specified. ''Choreography'' may also refer to the design ...

. Baku Choreography Academy was established on April 30, 2014, by the decree of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan

Ilham Aliyev Ilham Heydar oghlu Aliyev ( az, İlham Heydər oğlu Əliyev, ; born 24 December 1961) is the fourth president of Azerbaijan, serving in the post since 31 October 2003. The son and second child of the former Azerbaijani leader Heydar Aliyev, ...

. It was established on the basis of Baku Choreography School. The Baku Choreography Academy was established to ensure the development of highly qualified personnel in choreography. It was established to provide the need of developing the choreographic art traditions in the Azerbaijan. On August 1, 2014, the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan signed a decree to provide design works related to the construction of the Baku Choreographic Academy building. According to the decree, 2 million Azerbaijani manats were allocated to the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the Republic of Azerbaijan from the Reserve Fund of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan.

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