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Research, training, tourism, interviews and more on Dance Heritage. Read the research on Dance as a Form of Living Cultural HeritageWelcome to World Dance Heritage, with research, culture, lessons, teaching, and customs of dance. This site is about promoting and celebrating all dance forms and its protection and promotion from all over the world. The heritage section covers research on all aspects of dance heritage and the cultural dimensions of dance, including on the issues, debates, and questions about dance genres as forms of cultural heritage of humanity Including the transmission of dance and the Authenticity of dance). For tourist boards, dance can also be an important way of providing a memorable and positive visitor experience and we work with Tourism Boards to promote dance heritage and traditions. We also providing teaching and training online in dance, heritage, tourism via online teaching to students around the world.
Dance Heritage & Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) Research
The Era of Raqs Sharqi as Global Transcultural Heritage and the 2000s (5.7)
Moving from the 1990s to 2000s From the early 1990s, there has been a decline in the number of big raqs sharqi stars in Egypt and the Middle East, for a variety of reasons, as discussed. Since then, raqs sharqi has almost disappeared from Egyptian movies; many of the...
Sociological Analysis of Raqs Sharqi Stars in Egypt 1980s & 1990s (5.6.4)
Dance Sociological Analysis Looking at Table 31, there do not seem to be many new movements being developed in this timeframe. There are the oldest kinemes, plus the more recent ones that have, by now, become part of the movement vocabulary and various allokines. A...
Laban Dance Style Analysis of Belly Dancer Mona al Said (5.6.3)
About Mona al Said Biographical information about Mona al Said (منى السعيد ) is available from an article written by El Safy (1996) and from Mona’s own website (El Said, no date). She was born in Suez Canal and loved dancing folkloric dances at school. It was not...
Everything Dance
Authenticity and Dance Heritage Findings & Discussion (6.1 and 6.2)
Introduction In the previous chapter, I focused on the history of raqs sharqi and analysed six timeframes separately. In this chapter, I will bring these timeframes together focusing instead on the six analytical areas of:...
Laban Movements Analysis of Belly Dancers from the 2000s (5.7.9)
Dance Movements Analysis Table 39 below summarizes the movements noticed in this time-frame. The only new kineme I have noticed is the heel stomps, lifting and lowering both heels at the same time once, to stress an accent in the music. Most of the innovations instead...
Male Belly Dancers (5.7.8)
Men Performing Raqs Sharqi I have not found any videos of men performing Egyptian Raqs sharqi to analyze, dating back to before the late 1990s/early 2000s. Back in the early days of Raqs sharqi, even though Badia Masabni stated that, in her troupe, ‘we also had men...
Articles on Dance Heritage
Nadia Gamal Laban Dance Movements & Style Analysis of (5.4.1)
Introduction The 1960s early 1970s timespan has emerged from the data as a distinct timeframe, because, in Egypt, there are certain changes with regards to costumes design and to a certain extent to movement style. Also, the late 1960s and early 1970s, saw the...
Movements Analysis of Dancers of the 1930s to 1950s in Egypt (5.3.5)
Table 15 includes a comparison of the movements used by the three most famous dancers of the golden age. Kinemes All three use isolations of the hips, torso and shoulders and a clear movement vocabulary of raqs sharqi is already established at this stage. Following...
Egyptian Folklore and the Reda Troupe (5.3.4)
1950s in Egypt and Egyptian Culture In the 1950s in Egypt, after the 1952 revolution, the government encouraged a renewed interest in Egyptian culture, particularly in the late 1950s. It was in this political and cultural environment that the Ministry of Culture...
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Dr Valeria Lo Iacono (Symonds)
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Hi. I am the owner of World Dance heritage and I completed a Ph.D. in dance as a form of in cultural tangible heritage. I also have worked as a lecturer of sociology, and physical movement, in the University of Bath (England), and Cardiff Metropolitan University (Wales). Valeria also provides online teaching in dance studies, and heritage studies. Learn more about Dr Valeria Lo Iacono
