Dance History and Theory is a core foundational course for university dance majors

undertaking the educational mission of shaping students' historical awareness and advancing their comprehensive cultural literacy. Conventional teaching modes suffer from lecture-based cramming pedagogy

obscure theoretical content and superficial student engagement

which fail to accommodate the standards of dance aesthetic education in the new era. Grounded on Constructivist Learning Theory and Situated Cognition Theory

this paper integrates new media technologies to explore the construction logic

implementation approaches and evaluation framework of immersive teaching for Dance History and Theory courses. Drawing on typical teaching cases including the Dancing Through the Millennia museum-school collaborative program at Beijing Dance Academy

AI-powered cultural relic revitalization

documentary theater classrooms

and the virtual simulation experiment of Tang Dynasty Music and Dance developed by Shaanxi Normal University

this study verifies that immersive teaching transforms one-way knowledge lecturing into profound cultural immersion through scene reconstruction

multi-sensory engagement and creative practice. This model can motivate students' autonomous learning willingness

foster their historical critical thinking

and raise their awareness of cultural inheritance

providing theoretical references and practical solutions for the teaching innovation of university dance history and theory courses.