This essay raises the question about the preconditions for dance in Swedish elementary school. With a design theoryperspective the essay examines the different aspects of the school system which play a role in the discussion on dance inschool. These different aspects are the physichal resources, the institutional patterns including regulatory documentsand also the teacher´s education. To get an insight view of what the actual teaching situation looks like observationsgave been done in classes year 1 and year 3 in elementary school.One important part of this question is what view of knowledge that exists in society, school and in the arts. Thereforea part of the essay presents these different views.The conclusions are that the preconditions for dance in school are difficult due to the lack of research in the subject,the regulatory documents where dance plays a minor role, the time schedule that does not give much time for the arts inthe schedule, the teaching program that lacks education in the arts in general and in dance in particular. The mainconclusion is that the status of these parametres are due to the fact that the view of knowledge in society and school arelargely instrumental and economic and based on mathemathic and linguistic skills rather than artistic.