The main teaching content of dance education is inseparable from dance art, and its main purpose is to cultivate and bring up all kinds of qualified dancers, including performing artists, choreographers, theorists, historians, leaders of dance organizations and dance educators. Therefore, the characteristics and laws of dance art, the teaching of dance skills, the psychological and physiological influence of dance art on the recipients of dance education, and how to use physical and mental movements to create art are all important aspects that need to be studied in dance education.
The composition of dance science is also indispensable to dance education.