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
Data Collection Methods for Researching Dance Heritage (4.4)
Data Collection Stages Data collection was divided into three overlapping phases. Stages 1 and 2 - Video and Textual Sources The first and second phases gathered data from video and textual sources, to generate important information on the commonly held views of raqs...
Dance Heritage Data Collection and Analysis Process Summary (4.3)
Data Collection Summary Intro Before describing, in detail, the process adopted for each method of data collection and analysis, I have provided a summary below of the procedure I followed. This summary consists of a list of the main steps I took for each method, in...
Dance and Heritage Methodology Strategy and Framework (4.1 and 4.2)
Introduction In Chapter 3, I developed a holistic model of living heritage, based on a dialogical paradigm of heritage. In this chapter, I will describe the methodological process and approach for this research, following from the conceptual framework. First, I will...
Everything Dance
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...
Introduction to the Analysis of Egyptian Raqs Sharqi as Living Dance/Heritage (5.1)
Analyzing Egyptian Raqs Sharqi The aim of this chapter is to analyze the data I gathered on Egyptian raqs sharqi from an ethnochoreological approach. Drawing on the idea that the temporal dimension is important for heritage and agreeing with Kirshenblatt-Gimblett’s...
Research and Judgment Criteria (4.81)
Positivist Perspective of Validity Drawing from the discussion on the previous page regards reflexivity, and given the socially constructed nature of my research, is based on people’s subjectivities (following an interpretivist paradigm), my work cannot be judged...
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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