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.
The majority of ATP in aerobic, eukaryotic cells is produced by the mitochondria. In the breakdown of sugar (glucose) to carbon dioxide and water, approximately* 36 ATP are produced, in three main processes: Glycolysis, in the cytoplasm, provides a net of 2 ATP (it produces 4, but uses 2), Krebs Cycle (or Citric Acid Cycle), in the mitochondrion, also produces 2 ATP, as well as electron carriers NADH and FADH2. The NADH and FADH2 are fed into the Electron Transport Chain in the inner membrane of the mitochondrion, which generates another 32 ATP.