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
Dance/Heritage Research Questions and Summary (3.8)
The aim of this thesis, which has guided this research from the beginning, is: To identify the cultural heritage characteristics of Egyptian raqs sharqi and evaluate if it can be considered heritage and how it locates itself within the field of ICH. The sensitizing...
Moving to a Model of Living Cultural Heritage (3.7)
Living Cultural Heritage The critique of the tangible/intangible divide, the sensitizing concepts evinced from the dance and heritage literature, the questions emerging from them and the post-dualist sociological and philosophical theories analyzed in this chapter,...
Using Giddens Structuration Theory for Dance Heritage and Subjectivity vs Objectivity Dichotomy (3.6)
Structuration Theory Giddens’ Structuration Theory is the third conceptual tool I will use for my understanding of dance as in/tangible heritage. This theory helps to explain change in society and, therefore, a form of heritage that is in constant flow, as highlighted...
Everything Dance
Presentation of the Dance Research Data (4.6.4)
From Data to Writing Model As I started writing the results, I was presented with various possibilities. As stated by Sandelowski (1998, p. 376), ‘qualitative researchers must choose which story, of the many stories available to them in a data set’. In the choice of...
Dance Research Coding, Themes and Thematic Analysis (4.6.3)
Introduction to Coding and Themes Coding was based on a thematic analysis, which refers to the process of coding the data and grouping connected codes into themes. This process is common in qualitative research (Maykut and Morehouse, 1994; Attride-Stirling, 2001;...
Texts and Interviews Analysis – Dance Heritage (4.6.2)
Transcriptions For the textual sources (books, blogs, comments to online videos, web pages) there was no need to transcribe the content. In order that the interviews though were also in the same textual format as the above sources, the interviews needed transcription....
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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
