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
Holistic Tangible and Intangible Framework of Embodied Practice Summary (6.8)
The Holistic Framework Table 42 and Table 43 summarise the discussions in this chapter, which were centred around the elements that compose dance, as identified in the conceptual framework, and the sensitising concepts that emerged from the literature and the data...
Influences on Heritage that Can Encourage, Help Safeguard or Threaten it (6.7)
Elements that Influence Heritage In the dance analysis, a series of elements have emerged that can influence heritage and encourage its safeguarding, preservation or threaten it. For living heritage, these elements are socio-cultural since, as Ashworth (2011, p. 2)...
Transmission of Dance and Heritage (6.6)
Dance and Transmission Transmission is part of heritage, as Naguib (2013, p. 5) posits, ‘safeguarding . . . conveys the idea of protecting and preserving, while at the same time transmitting far and wide’. Transmission is also connected with the temporal dimension of...
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USA and the History of Raqs Sharqi Belly Dance from the 1960s (5.4.1. Continued)
Vaudeville, Danse du Ventre (Dance of the Stomach) to Chicago The time in which bellydance started to become popular and to be taught in the USA, in the 1960s, is crucial for the transmission of Raqs sharqi on a global scale. Although Raqs sharqi in the USA was and...
Authenticity and its implications for Intangible Cultural Heritage: The Case Study of the Dance Genre Egyptian Raqs Sharqi
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...
Articles on Dance Heritage
Foreigner Dancers Living and Working in Cairo (5.7.7)
Non-Egyptian Influences As mentioned by Dina at the end of the previous section, the musicians, the feeling and the heart of raqs sharqi are still in Egypt. This is why many raqs sharqi practitioners (those who want to discover the roots of this dance) from around the...
Belly Dancers in Contemporary Egyptian Media (5.7.6)
Other Egyptian Dancers Apart from the dancers who perform and teach internationally, there are other examples of Egyptian dancers I found online. These are the ones who appear on shaabi music videos and I have found references to some of them on an article from a...
Sahar Samara – Modern but Mellow (5.7.5)
Background of Sahar Samara Another Egyptian dancer who teaches at the Nile Group Festival is Sahar Samara. She also participated in the raqs sharqi competition Al Rakesa, organised by Dina, and she came second. I found a little bit more information about her from the...
Books on Dance
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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
