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
Authenticity in Intangible Heritage (2.5)
Authenticity in Intangible Heritage. Critique, UNESCO 2005 Guidlines, Nara Document on Authenticity, Yamato Declaration and fluid authenticity.
Transmission of Cultural Heritage (2.4)
Transmission of cultural heritage. Safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage; essentialist vs dialogical approach; past, present and future and changes.
Egyptian Raqs Sharqi Literature Review (2.3.2)
Egyptian Raqs Sharqi literature review. PhD theses and academic writings about this dance genre, style of belly dance, and Sellers-young.
Everything Dance
Moving to a Model of Living Cultural Heritage (3.7)
Here’s a Model of Living Cultural Heritage that was developed by Dr Valeria Lo Iacono and dr David HK Brown. Duality of body, mind and agency.
Using Giddens Structuration Theory for Dance Heritage and Subjectivity vs Objectivity Dichotomy (3.6)
Structuration Theory and resolving the subjectivity vs objectivity dichotomy. Duality of structure, agency dialectic, habitus and rules.
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.
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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