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The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of dance therapy program on the cognitive performance of memory, and depression of elderly with dementia. The elderly with dementia above the age of 65 in G nursing home of Chuncheon, Gangwon-do, participated and 22 people were chosen and they were randomly placed in two groups of the experimental and control groups. The guasi-experimental design was applied to investigate the effect of the cognitive performance of memory, and depression after dance therapy program was performed during 12 weeks. The data was analyzed by Mann-Whitney U test and Wilcoxon signed -Ranks Test. In the result, the difference of cognitive performance of memory between the experimental and control group was statistically invaluable, and pretest and posttest cognitive performance of memory of experimental group were also invaluable statistically. However, posttest scores were improved in comparison to pretest scores in the memory test for words list of lower rank factors. The difference of depression between the experimental and control group was statistically invaluable, but posttest scores for depression was reduced in comparison to pretest scores in the experimental group after dance therapy program was performed.