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Community dance is conceptualized as an anti-elitist, leisure-based, process-led participatory practice that seeks to create democratic spaces where diverse bodies share creative agency and pursue relational justice. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.SYNTHESIS. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.NEUTRAL.

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To examine how community dance is conceptualized and operationalized in scholarly literature published between 2000 and 2026 using a dual-perspective framework.

August 22, 2026SocietiesOpen Access

Redefining Community Dance: A Systematic Review and Dual-Perspective Analysis of Rhetoric and Reality Intersections (2000–2026)

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AZAglaia Zafeiroudi ACAthanasia Chatzipanteli ITIoannis Tsartsapakis

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Systematic review reveals community dance bridges social equity rhetoric and embodied practice, highlighting a unified framework for psychosocial well-being and democratic inclusion.

Key Points

To examine how community dance is conceptualized and operationalized in scholarly literature published between 2000 and 2026 using a dual-perspective framework.
Conducted a systematic review following PRISMA 2020 standards with SPIDER search criteria across five bibliographic databases and Google Scholar.
Identified 423 initial records and synthesized findings from 30 included peer-reviewed articles using thematic and cross-cutting narrative synthesis.
Explicit rhetoric prioritizes macro-level commitments to cultural democracy, social equity, connection, and eco-social sustainability.
Operational frameworks emphasize micro-level embodied pedagogies, de-centered facilitator authority, challenges to normative body ideals, non-clinical well-being, and trauma-informed principles.
The lived body functions as the critical interpretive link connecting embodied participation, creative agency, and psychosocial well-being across diverse community settings.

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Zafeiroudi et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a895ec3ca7ade938187cd8d https://doi.org/10.3390/soc16080265

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August 22, 2026SocietiesOpen Access

Redefining Community Dance: A Systematic Review and Dual-Perspective Analysis of Rhetoric and Reality Intersections (2000–2026)

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Authors

AZAglaia Zafeiroudi ACAthanasia Chatzipanteli ITIoannis Tsartsapakis

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Overview

Systematic review reveals community dance bridges social equity rhetoric and embodied practice, highlighting a unified framework for psychosocial well-being and democratic inclusion.

Key Points

To examine how community dance is conceptualized and operationalized in scholarly literature published between 2000 and 2026 using a dual-perspective framework.
Conducted a systematic review following PRISMA 2020 standards with SPIDER search criteria across five bibliographic databases and Google Scholar.
Identified 423 initial records and synthesized findings from 30 included peer-reviewed articles using thematic and cross-cutting narrative synthesis.
Explicit rhetoric prioritizes macro-level commitments to cultural democracy, social equity, connection, and eco-social sustainability.
Operational frameworks emphasize micro-level embodied pedagogies, de-centered facilitator authority, challenges to normative body ideals, non-clinical well-being, and trauma-informed principles.
The lived body functions as the critical interpretive link connecting embodied participation, creative agency, and psychosocial well-being across diverse community settings.

Cite This Study

Zafeiroudi et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a895ec3ca7ade938187cd8d https://doi.org/10.3390/soc16080265

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