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
Using Bourdieu’s Theory of Practice for Dance and Heritage Research (3.5)
Theory of Practice for Dance. Using Bourdieu’s ideas of habitus, capital and practice to explain transmission and change in dance as a form of embodied ICH.
Using Merleau-Ponty: Phenomenology for Dance Heritage (3.4)
Phenomenology for dance. Using Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology to overcome the dualism of body and mind. Lived body theory, emotions and kinaesthetic empathy.
The Missing Body and Embodiment in Heritage Studies (3.3)
The missing body in heritage studies. Intangible cultural heritage and unity of body and mind. Sociological theories to overcome dualisms.
Everything Dance
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....
How to Analyse Dance, Laban and Semiotic Levels, and Analysis (4.6.1)
How to Analyse Dance The analysis of the different data sources happened in overlapping phases. The videos were the first data set I started analyzing as the study revolved around the dance as physical performance and movement. The analysis followed Adshead (1988, p....
Data Analysis for Dance Heritage Research Introduction (4.6)
Introduction In this section, I will describe how I have analyzed the data for this research, from breaking down the data into codes and themes to reassembling these into the presentation of results. I will explain the analysis process for the videos and for the other...
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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