The purpose of this research is to provide insights into the essence and value of dance education by describing the teaching experiences through an auto- ethnographic method. It is difficult to find researches on the overall teaching experience ranging from early childhood education to college education. Having experienced child dance class, elementary school dance class, and college movement class, I seek to find the desirable education and its significance for students while reflecting on dance teaching method and its meanings. Students get interested in their body parts, and they learn how to communicate and share their feelings with others through dance education. The performance experiences as a dance teacher are as follows. First, a natural culture at home or a home atmosphere has formed through learning-by-playing. Second, my first part-time class has led to my lifelong workplace and developed functionally. Third, I have found that a strict discipline in a dance class could give difficulties for students to express freedom. Fourth, a dance class that gives joy and pleasure changes students’perception of dance, makes them more interested in their bodies, and have more confidence with dance. In conclusion, I have realized that a dance class enables students to widely understand various emotions expressed by the body, discover ‘self’ through this process, and it can be developed into a means of communication to form a community spirit.

The purpose of the current study was to investigate the relationship among body composition, bone mineral density(BMD), career and eating attitude in Korean traditional dancers. Seventy three dance major female college students were recruited in the current study. The body composition variables such as body mass index, percent body fat, total body water, fat free mass and basal metabolism rate were assessed. Data were collected from Anorexia Bulimia Inventory(ABI) questionnaire and BMD was measured using Quantitative ultrasound. T-score was used as an index of BMD. Analysis of confirmatory factor, multiple correlation, multiple regression, and Dubin Watson test were applied for the statistical analysis using SPSS 23.0 windows. There was statistically significant correlation between dietary control and BMD of eating attitude negatively and depressed mood about Career positively(p<0.05). In the result of regression analysis, dietary control and depressed mood were the coefficient determination in BMD and Career. In conclusion, the current study suggested that the perception of healthy body weight was required for dance major female college students.

This study developed a Wholeness program and verified its effectiveness at preventing cognitive degeneration and maintain residual body function of the elderly with dementia. The subjects of this study were A1 Elderly Welfare Center Day Care Center, the 20 elderly with dementia as an experimental group, and A2 Elderly Welfare Center Day Care Facility, the 20 dementia elderly as an control group. A Wholeness program was conducted once a week for a total of 30 weeks for 60 minutes. As a result, in the experimental group, except for cognitive function (LOTCA-G), K-MMSE (Korean version of Mini-mental state examination), cognitive impairment (GDS), functional fitness (SFT & BBS), and daily living ability (K-ADL), there was a significant difference in all of them, and there was a significant difference in the comparison of the correspondence of the experimental group, confirming that the Wholeness program was an integrated cognitive and physical health program for the elderly with dementia. This result confirmed that the Wholeness program was an integrated cognitive and physical health program for the elderly with dementia. It is expected that the results of previous studies that were lacking in timeliness and academic context will be supplemented.