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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
Samia Gamal Belly Dancer Laban Movement Analysis (5.3.2)
Samia Gamal Movement Vocabulary Samia Gamal (جمال سامية) is the most famous of the dancers of the Golden Age of Egyptian cinema. The basic movements she used were part of the same movement vocabulary used by the other dancers of her time. However, the feeling and...
Raqs Sharqi in Egyptian Cinema (1930s to 1950s) – 5.3
The Golden Era Introduced The time span from the 1930s to the late 1950s is the golden era of Egyptian cinema and the time when we find the majority of dance scenes. In this section, I will analyze videos of some of the most famous dancers of the time, to pinpoint the...
Birth of Modern Raqs Sharqi, Baladi and Ghawazee (Late 1800s to 1930s) and Belly Dance (5.2)
1920s Cairo and Hybrid Dance Egyptian raqs sharqi, in its modern form, developed in Cairo in the 1920s and was a hybrid dance genre from the beginning. The origins of raqs sharqi lie both in Egyptian traditions [1] and in transcultural elements coming from near Middle...
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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...
Lucy – Classical Raqs Sharqi Belly Dancer from Egypt Laban Movements and Style (5.6.2)
Lucy's Background Lucy (لوسى) was one of the star dancers of Cairo in the 1980s and 90s. She is an actress, singer and dancer (El Safy, 1993a) and danced at the Parisiana, a club in Cairo owned by her husband (Taylor, no date; Rose, 2006; TheCaroVan, 2015c). Dancer...
Fifi Abdou the Baladi Dance – Movements Analysis & Dance Style (5.6.1)
(1st profile and analysis of the three famous Egyptian dancers of the 1980s and 1990s) Fifi Abdou Background Fifi Abdou (فيفى عبده) was born in 1953 (Shams, 2016) and started dancing at the age of 12 (Shams, 2016), becoming a soloist in a folklore troupe at the age of...
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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
