Weiwei Cook
Traditional Chinese Dance / Ballet Instructor
Since 2015, Ms. Weiwei started teaching Chinese dance and ballet in the Katy/ Houston area.
Ms. Weiwei started her Chinese dance classes as a young girl at just seven years old and started her professional dance training at age 13.
In 1990, Weiwei was granted admission into the Shenyang Conservatory of Music dance school with over 4,000 other auditioning dancers. While attending, she studied Chinese traditional dance and ballet. After graduation, Weiwei worked for Shenyang Dance and Music Ensemble as a lead dancer.
As a professional dancer, Weiwei joined many dance performances and national dance competitions. One of her most memorable was in the dance-drama,” Yue Ya Wu Geng”, which was awarded the prestigious Wenhua Award, one of the nation’s top awards for Chinese dance.
In 2002, Weiwei started to teach for Shenyang Art School to become a dance instructor and choreographer where she worked for three years until moving to the US in 2005.
Currently, Weiwei resides in Katy with her family. She is a proud Asian American who continues to serve, encourage, teach, and choreograph Chinese dance and ballet for other Chinese dance schools, as well as other ballet and contemporary dance schools. In 2022, She also taught at West Briar Middle School, partnering with dance teachers for a dance workshop for their history class.
Education
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Associate of Art Lone Star College, Cypress, TX |
2019-2021 |
Associate of Art
Lone Star College, Cypress, TX
Achievements
Lone Star College-Cyfair Fall 2020 President’s List
Invitations for National Society of Leadership and Success Nominee
Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society Nominee and
The Honor College Merit Scholar
Accepting into The Honors College at University of Houston 2023
Supply Chain and Logistic Technology, B.S. 2023