Dance research contribution to bridging the gap between dance and cultural heritage studies. Historical reconstruction of belly dance.

Protecting ICH Intangible Cultural Heritage. The issue of transculturality and belly dance and a model for safeguarding intangible heritage.

What issues and problems can occur during dance research such as when interviewing participants and practioners?

A look at the limitations in my study on Raqs sharqi and belly dance in this dance research project at Ph.D. level.

Dance heritage study objectives, questions, and transculturality. What is authentic Egyptian Raqs sharqi and tangible and intangible dance?

A definition of Living Heritage as we look at an intangible vs tangible framework of embodied practice with dosagrama and for dance heritage.

Safeguarding heritage and the threats, what can help and encourage the preservation of heritage, habitus, moral, religious, and management.

The transmission of dance and heritage. How the body, physical locations, societies & the body are transmitted as cultural heritage.

Dialogical Paradigm As living heritage is based on a dialogical paradigm, the dialectic between change and traditions is important and so is practitioners’ agency. As Adshead (1988, p. 78) posits, ‘genres and styles place constraints upon . . . the nature and range of the material of the dance’ at the same time, however, Adshead […]

Dance and Transculturality From the dance analysis, it has emerged that Raqs sharqi has been a hybrid genre since its inception. Raqs sharqi is a living example of a type of heritage generated by a ‘transcultural network’ (Welsch, 1999) and the dancers are ‘transcultural bodies’ (Fensham and Kelada, 2012a, p. 370) who express the cultural […]