The development of dance teaching and creation to informatization and digitization is the trend of the times.With the rapid development of virtual simulation technology,it has been widely studied and applied in the field of game entertainment,performance,teaching and choreography,etc.Based on the above aspects of research,this paper introduced the techniques of motion capture,dance database,modeling and motion editing were in dance virtual simulation.Besides,the mechanism and characteristics of these technologies were analyzed.Finally,the development of virtual simulation technology was prospected in dance teaching and creation.