The purpose of this study is to find out how much general dance experience in higher education influences on dance participation of university students and to investigate factors related to dance experience and dance participation. Research hypotheses and casual model were designed, based on the previous studies and theories. Personal traits, significant others were set as background variables, general dance experience in higher education as independent variables, dance attitude and dance intervene as intervene variables, and dance participation as a dependent variable. The subjects were 800(dance experience 338, non experience 462) college students for all located in Seoul, Kyungki, Chungnam province by purposive sampling method. Data were collected by using the questionnaire whose validity and reliability were tested. ANCOVA, multiple regression analysis and path analysis method were also used in order to test the hypotheses. Each hypothesis was tested at the signigicant level of .05. On the basis of the results, the conclusions were drawn as followings: 1. Duration and frequency of dance experience were positively influenced by interesting and satisfaction about dance. 2. Dance experience were positively influenced by dance intervene. 3. The more dance experience, the higher behavior participation. 4. The higher interesting and satisfaction about dance, the higher cognitive participation. 5. The higher time and effort for dance, the higher behavior, cognitive and affective participation. 6. There were significant causal relationships among general dance experience in higher education, extent of dance intervene, and dance participation of college students.