Drawing from social science, educational, and legal scholarship, this article examines color-blind and color-conscious ideologies and their impact on dance education. It demonstrates that color-blind racial ideology produces numerous deleterious effects among teachers, students, and the general population, and it illustrates how these adversely influence dance education. The alternative, color-consciousness is then presented. Four approaches are named for developing color-consciousness in dance education: identifying the role of race, naming racist practices, challenging the neutrality of Whiteness, and according full expression to perspectives of people of color. These four approaches are employed in examining dance education's current deficiencies and in developing potential positive directions for its future. By explicating these two ideologies and applying them to dance, this article illuminates the pathways forward for dance education to advance racial discourse.