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.
It produces NADH, FADH 2, and GTP, which enter the electron transport chain to produce ATP. Hereâs a diagram I made of how ATP is produced in glucose metabolism: Note that this depicts a production of 32 ATP / glucose.