Welcome to this online resource for dance educators, students, and teaching artists! The Elements of Dance are the foundational concepts and vocabulary that help students develop movement skills and understand dance as an artistic practice. The acronym BASTE helps students remember the elements:
A molecule of pyruvate acid travels into a mitochondrion entering the Krebs cycle. In this process it is broken down producing energy in the form of ATP (which travels to the cell), NADH and FADH2 which travel to the electron transport chain.
While most ATP is produced using electron transport chains, some simpler organisms produce ATP through fermentation. Glycolysis, or the decomposition of glucose, also produces ATP on a very small scale. The last method of producing ATP is through the Krebs or citric acid cycle, which does not use oxygen.