The aim of this study is to understand how mental training can be integrated in dance education, on the basis that there is a certain lack of mental traning for dancers. Qualitative interviews are used to gain an understandning of what dancers experience of mental training in their schooling. Reaserch is made on sport psychology, to obtain more knowledge about the subject and also dance psychology to highlight past research in dance. The work is analyzed from a hermeneutic perspective.

The study shows that lectures in mental training should be presented early in dance education, so dancers can gain knowledge and become aware of the psychology in dance practice. Follow-up and continuity are important for developing and maintaining psychological skills. Expertise in the field of dance is desirable of the lecturer. The study shows that the lectures dancers received in mental training, have been of people with sports as a background, it is shown that they have different approaches in mental training, which is not always experienced as constructive in relation to the dancers practice.