The purpose with this essay is to investigate how a child perceive dance. Four children are part of theresearch and they get to explore their own dancing duirng two observations and one structuredconversation. With help of Grounded Theory as a qualitative method the results are analysed andcollected into five categories: social, cognitive, physical, spatial and emotional and then finally into onecentral category: perception. The resluts are highlighed through a sociocultrual perspective to look forinfluences from the child´s surrounding. With these insights the purpose is to broaden dance pedagogy forchildren and my way of working so that the child´s perspective can be included in the teaching process.