Implicit leadership theories are important, as they reflect the deeply held personal beliefs that followers have about their leaders. Research into implicit leadership theories has proliferated over the past 40 years, but no studies have assessed the specific context of the dance and dance education sector. Therefore, the present study asked: 'What constitutes the implicit leadership theories in dance and dance education, and in what ways are they similar or different to those from previous studies'? An implicit leadership theories survey was circulated within the dance and dance education sector. 129 individuals responded. The responses were examined using exploratory factor analysis to categorize leader prototypes into discrete dimensions. The results demonstrated the significance of five leader dimensions: Driven, Gender, Collective, Tyranny, and Intelligence. The study found that implicit leadership theories were different from other studies, although in subtly different ways. There was also a move toward more androgynous representations of leadership prototypes than those found in earlier studies conducted on mainstream organizations. Finally, although creativity and prototypes associated with creativity were expected to load prominently thereby proving the importance of creativity and prototypes associated with creativity, this study was not able to support this hypothesis.