This study began from a personal interest that brain-based education can be available through dance education. Accordingly, based on brain-based education principle, it aimed to find out principle of brain-dance education and brain-based dance teaching-learning strategy. This study came to a conclusion from the examination of previous literature survey on cognitive neuro-science, biology and psychology. First, physical activity provides oxygen, movement generates brain nerve network, and nerve cell membrane increases to facilitate learning and to integrate sensible recognition. Such physical activity improves function and learning of brain. Accordingly, various movements including imaginary expression is necessary to develop brain and vitalize it. In particular, since dance, as a multi-sense art, enables to use space and time by movement, learn about relation, and to have imaginary learning and creative expression learning, it can correlate with cognitive function of brain. Accordingly, brain-based education can be used to activate dance education. Second, the principle of brain-based dance education should consider ① individuality, uniqueness and diversity, ② brain development by age and ③ provide holistic dance environment. It also should provide ④ an opportunity to integrate body, mind and soul, and ⑤ an opportunity to have positive emotional experience. It should provide ⑥ an opportunity to create meaning, exploration and pattern. Finally, it should provide ⑦ an opportunity to create relation and communication. Third, to set up brain-based dance education strategy, it should provide chances including ① use of diverse symbolic system, multi-facial and complicated learning environment, ② dance education program that considers brain development by age ③ rich stimulating environment (five senses, sense of movement, and sense of balance) ④ an opportunity of immersion through dancing image and creation, sharing dance experience and provide rest time (breathing) ⑤ learning environment creation that minimizes negative emotion but creates positive emotion ⑥ an opportunity to understand through appreciation of dance work, and to create meaning, exploration and pattern, and finally ⑦ providing dance program for social experience and for dance sharing opportunity. It is expected that proactive researches on brain-based dance education are activated based on this study, and further studies may create brain-based dance education method and model.