The purpose of this study is to examine the balance and attention characteristic of dance exercise. 200 university students with a mean age of 20.63+1.59, who studied at the Faculty of Sport Sciences at Muğla Sitkı Koçman University in the 2016-2017 academic year participated in the study. University students participating in the study were taught 3 hours of Latin dance (salsa, bachata) once a week for 12 weeks. The "d2 attention test", which validity and reliability was performed in Turkish by Çağlar and Koruç [1], developed by Brickenkamp [2], was used to determine students' attention attributes related to dance exercise. Data analysis, frequency analysis, Impulsive statistics. Kolmokorov-Smirnov test, t-test, Mann-Whitney U test were used. As a result, there was no significant difference between the experimental and control groups of the body weight pretest and posttest values of the students participating in the research. A significant difference was found between the experimental and control groups in the balance posttest value. A positive change was determined in the attention, error, and concentration post-test values of the students who participated in the dance study. It has been determined that dance work positively affects balance and attentiveness.