Abstract
The purpose of this study was to investigate the meaning of dance education from a film in order to provide the status of the field of dance education and its existential problems in Korea. For this, Billy Elliot was selected and analyzed. Billy Elliot is the heartwarming story of a young boy from a working-class family who discovers a passion that will change his life forever. Eleven-year-old miner's son Billy Elliot is on his way to boxing lessons when he stumbles upon a ballet class. The results of this study are follow as; First, dance should be a education based on humanistic meeting between teacher and student. second, dance education should be supposed to teach with committment and fashion. Third, it is absolutely important that teaching and learning dance need courage to teach, respect, and understanding.