World Dance Heritage
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
Beyond Binarism: Exploring a Model of Living Cultural Heritage for Dance
- Post written by Dr Valeria Lo Iacono Model for living cultural heritage Introduction I have written this post, in order to summarise and explain in simple words the article ‘Beyond Binarism: Exploring a Model of Living Cultural Heritage for Dance’, which I have...
Dance Research Contribution (7.5)
Advancement in Dance/Heritage Research In addition to providing some directions for future research and giving recommendations, there are some contributions that I hope my study has made to the advancement in the fields of heritage and dance studies. Indeed, the area...
Dance Heritage Research Implications and Recommendations (7.4)
Protecting ICH (Intangible Cultural Heritage) The studies carried out in the field of ICH (see 2.2.1) support the idea that the inclusion in UNESCO’s lists brought recognition to two practices that were not very well known and that were considered marginal. Hence,...
Tourism Boards and Using Traditional Dance for Place-making
Travelling for Dance Training and Discovery
Dancers in Egypt. Belly Dancing in Northern Africa As a belly dancer, I like traveling to the countries of origin of the Middle Eastern and Northern African dances that gave birth to what many people today know as belly dance. I like doing this in order to rediscover...
Articles on Dance Heritage
Authenticity and its implications for Intangible Cultural Heritage: The Case Study of the Dance Genre Egyptian Raqs Sharqi (Jan. 2020)
Research on Egyptian raqs sharqi, with data gathered using interviews and analysis of videos and texts available online. This case study that shows how the tangible and intangible elements of heritage contribute to the authenticity discourse constructed by an international community of Egyptian raqs sharqi practitioners.
Dance Performance from an Audience Members Perspective
In this post I am going to write from the point of view of an audience member, rather than as a dancer. Many of you already know that different dance genres portray different feelings and may also feel different to dance to. I am going to discuss some dance...
Bharatanatyam – Classical Indian Dance Forms
Indian Bharatanatyam traditional dance What is Bharatanatyam? Bharathanatyam is a type of classical Indian dance, which is based on very old traditions and it is nowadays performed all over the world mostly by people of Indian heritage, but not only. So, it has become...
Dr Valeria Lo Iacono (Symonds)
Owner
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
