Recent advances in hardware sophistication related to graphics display, audio
and video devices made available a large number of multimedia and hypermedia
applications. These multimedia applications need to store and retrieve the
different forms of media like text, hypertext, graphics, still images,
animations, audio and video. Dance is one of the important cultural forms of a
nation and dance video is one such multimedia types. Archiving and retrieving
the required semantics from these dance media collections is a crucial and
demanding multimedia application.

Dance videos are interesting and semantics-intensive. At the same time, they
are the complex type of videos compared to all other types such as sports, news
and movie videos. In fact, dance video is the one which is less explored by the
researchers across the globe. Dance videos exhibit rich semantics such as macro
features and micro features and can be classified into several types. Hence,
the conceptual modeling of the expressive semantics of the dance videos is very
crucial and complex.