The WebDANCE and OpenDANCE projects

The WebDANCE project was a pilot study with a European scope that aimed to experiment with the development of a web‐based learning environment for traditional dances, and experience has shown that the same conceptualisation schema can potentially be used to document different European traditional dances. OpenDANCE, built upon the technological results and the experience gained through WebDANCE in order to (a) increase the functionality and interactivity of the web-learning environment by allowing users to add dance content and create dance lessons on-line (b) broaden the scope of the teaching resources offered including information on traditional dances of several European countries, (c) expand the number and type of users of the web-learning environment and create an on-line traditional dance learning community and (d) further evaluate the use of e-learning tools in multicultural dance education.