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.
production of ATP. In your response, consider which process produces ATP and which process contributes to its production. The three sources are ATP already in muscles, ATP made by lactic acid fermentation, and ATP produced by cellular respiration. After the ATP in muscles is used, the muscles produce ATP by lactic acid fermentation. Lactic acid fermentation produces lactic acid as a byproduct. of the lactic acid is in a chemical pathway that requires extra oxygen. Cellular respiration is the only way to continue generating a supply of ATP.