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The text shows different fields and possibilities of professional dance training in Poland – one of the few European countries, where only recently dance and choreography training at academic level has been introduced. The aim of the article is to draw attention to the possible reasons of this fact, and also to present some other forms of training that had formed as the result of the earlier lack of possible formal training. Moreover, the paper points out some possible dangers that the free educational market brings to the dancing field and possible repercussions of this condition. The author identifies formal needs necessary to introduce ‘dance’ at universities, defines minimum personnel and training standards, and differentiates between dance, chorography and dance pedagogy. Next, the article contains a synthesis of a historical outline of how the dance education was formed in Poland before and after the Second World War. The author also examines the formation of Polish academic tradition in the dancing field, and presents some selected offers of professional dance education in Poland that include dance and choreography trainings. Lastly, there is an analysis of a contemporary dance training model in Poland, along with the outline of trends, dangers and contemporary contexts of the development of dance education.