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This study aims at examining what changes basic movement practice of ballet exercise caused for lower elementary male and female students. After a 60-minute ballet practice, 3 days a week for 16 weeks has been carried out for 11 lower elementary male and female students(practice group: 3, non-practice group: 8) for this purpose, as a result of an examination of the changes of their exercise abilities through their physical changes such as their height, weight, muscle mass, body fat mass and basic metabolism, etc. and variables such as burst power and balance, etc., the following conclusions were obtained. First, from the results that there was no difference in their height and weight between the groups, it is found to be an increase because of natural growth. Second, the ballet education program was helpful for the improvement of the basic metabolism among the physical composition. Third, there was not a great difference between pre- and post-ballet education program in their exercise abilities such as burst power and balance. In the future, researches need to increase the number of the subjects to maximize the effects of education programs.