Project - Dancing Dialogues -- Present and connect folk dance groups
Dancing Dialogues connects UK folk dance groups and events via a user-friendly digital hub. The site features a map of groups and activities, user-managed profiles, and a social wall for RSS feeds, fostering engagement and promoting the folk dance community.
- Financed by
- Royal Holloway, University of London
- Duration
Overview
Dancing Dialogues is a project with the Royal Holloway, University of London and aims to present and connect folk dance groups, events and activities in the UK in an easy-to-use digital space.
The website consists of static (e.g., Home, About) and dynamic (e.g., news, blog) areas. Pages can contain mixed-media content, blending textual information with photos, videos, PowerPoint presentations and slides, PDFs and documents, social media posts. The core of the website will be a map that shows entries about folk dance groups, related events and activities. The website will provide the means to:
- Register an account so that folk dance groups can add/edit their profile, events and activities and assign them on a map location.
- Harvest RSS feeds and posts from selected folk dance groups in a dedicated web page (social wall)
Alongside IN2, the consortium consisted of:
- Royal Holloway, University of London, Drama and Theatre Studies BA, United Kingdom (Coordinator)
- University of Exeter, Department of Communications, Drama and Film, United Kingdom
- Coventry University, Centre for Dance Research (C-DaRE), United Kingdom
- Creative Lives, United Kingdom
- English Folk Dance and Song Society, United Kingdom
Our role
- Website Development and Operations
- Interactive map-based visualisation
- RSS feed aggregation backend
- User management and profile
- Curated Community hub with editorial review workflow
- Dissemination of events through online video pages
