This project was based on the application of distance learning to teaching the subject of the Greek traditional dancing. The purpose of the work was to assess a remote training programme for the teaching of the Greek traditional dance, based on the experiences of the participants, taking as an example the training programme ‘Modern approaches and creativity in teaching the Greek Traditional Dance: morphological teaching method’ of the Centre for Training and Lifelong Learning of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens for Physical Education professors. The data were collected, analysed and interpreted on the basis of the ethnographic method, under the conditions of a digital ethnography. It was found that teaching the Greek traditional dance in the context of distance learning is undoubtedly an innovative educational practice, but this could be called into question by the very nature of the subject matter. However, in the training programme under study, learners were not taught ‘dancing’, in terms of quantity (i.e. number of individual dancing), but how to use the morphological method of teaching the Greek traditional dance in dancing teaching. This method, as an educational tool, is identical to the principles and purposes of distance learning, as the common objective of both is to ‘learn how to learn’. distance learning poses a number of challenges, highlighting the need to further study how the dancing body is involved in an educational process, and creates new perspectives in dance teaching.