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.
During oxidative phopsphorylation, the amount of ATP produced is related to the number of electron carrying enzymes made. NADH can produce around 3 molecules of ATP and FADH2 can produce around 1.5 to 2. Eight NADH and four FADH2 molecules enter the oxidative phosphorylation stage leading to around 32 molecules of ATP being produced.