Improving students' creative ability in dance lesson can be done by art expression activities. Exploration of the environment around the school can produce many themes, observation objects, imagination development, and provide aesthetic creative learning and expression.
Dance creativity process by movement explorations from various observations of object and life around the school, fields, hills, mountains, trees, etc. School environment increase the motivation for creative process of exploring movements in exploring, applying results of explorations, and arranging them into dance compositions, starting from the early process to the end of the composition.
Choreography composition was conducted by studying school environment. The formulation is as follows: determining space, determining rites and rituals, exploring school environment. Creativity development could be done by: sensing, feeling, imaging, transforming, forming.
Keywords: Creative process, dance lesson, school environment