The thinking body is at the intersection of key concerns in education, society, and cognition. Dance is one of the least understood of the art forms and one of the most readily discounted as not having educational or cognitive value. The 20th century has made significant strides in moving the body into a more central cultural position as society has become more comfortable with issues of fitness, health, and sexuality, however. What is helping this shift for dance in the educational arena is the fact that there is an intense search under way for new theoretical models and methods for addressing the production, structure, and exchange of knowledge, which the arts is being increasingly pulled into. The body, and in particular the thinking body, is likely to become increasingly important in the era ahead, with dance offering much to a unity of arts practices that is rooted in the fundamental experience of somatic knowledge.