Research Outputs

SCHEDAR investigated how digital technologies can help safeguard traditional dance as intangible cultural heritage. Active from 2018 to 2021, the project brought together dance documentation, 3D motion data, digital archives, and multisensory augmented reality. Its publications and tutorial materials provide practical reference points for studying, presenting, and reusing dance heritage.

Selected Publications

Virtual Dance Museum: The Case of Greek/Cypriot Folk Dancing (2021)

This paper presents a virtual museum that connects recorded movement with information about dance history, music, costumes, and cultural context. A relational database structures these materials for archiving, analysis, presentation, and reuse.

The research also demonstrates how captured movements can be transferred to animated characters wearing traditional costumes. These characters can be explored through online 3D environments, virtual reality, and augmented reality. For heritage professionals, the paper offers an example of presenting movement records together with the knowledge that gives them meaning. Read the Eurographics publication.

Safeguarding Our Dance Cultural Heritage (2022)

Published after the project’s active period, this Eurographics tutorial synthesises SCHEDAR’s work on digitising, analysing, and documenting traditional dance. It introduces the research to readers working across cultural heritage, computer graphics, animation, and immersive technologies.

The publication record includes a tutorial paper and an accompanying video, providing starting points for understanding the project’s methods and demonstrations. Explore the tutorial materials.

Technical and Educational Resources

The SCHEDAR tutorial at the 2021 Eurographics Workshop on Graphics and Cultural Heritage covered digital dance ethnography, recovery of 3D human motion, volumetric scene capture, motion data exploration, and mixed reality in dance education. Its programme maps the connections between documentation, technical processing, and learning applications. View the workshop programme.

Using the Research

These materials offer several routes for further study:

• Researchers and archivists: examine how movement records can remain connected to cultural and performance context.
• Dance educators: consider how 3D visualisation could complement teaching led by dancers and tradition bearers.
• Developers and museum professionals: explore approaches to motion reuse, animated characters, and immersive interpretation.

Across these uses, retaining the relationship between dance, performers, and communities is central to meaningful heritage documentation.