Dance has entered mainstream empirical research: dance as an experimental stimulus, and dancers as movement experts. Informed by several sources, including primary sources (original, historical documents, and oral reports, such as interviews with practitioners and academic scholars of Iranian dance genres) and secondary sources (research literature), we describe what we label “Iranian classical dance” within this paper as an important resource for empirical research, not only in humanities scholarship but also, and importantly, for empirical aesthetics, emotion psychology, cross-cultural psychology, and affective neuroscience. For this purpose, we (1) describe the aesthetics, characteristics, and history of Iranian classical dance; (2) outline issues of definition and systematization; and (3) give an overview of the cultural complexities and sociopolitical issues regarding Iranian classical dance in the past 40 years, which have shaped its current form. After the political revolution of 1979 (Iranian solar calendar year: 1358), dance in Iran—both as everyday practice and as a cultural heritage—was first forbidden, and now remains heavily restricted. International, interdisciplinary research teams can contribute to safeguarding Iranian classical dance in the future by firmly enshrining it into empirical research on human dance. We outline empirical research perspectives on Iranian classical dance, dataset resources, and expert communities.

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伊朗古典舞作为实证研究的主题：一种难以捉摸的流派

舞蹈已进入主流实证研究：舞蹈作为实验刺激，舞者作为动作专家。根据多种来源，包括主要来源（原始、历史文献和口头报告，例如对伊朗舞蹈流派的从业者和学术学者的采访）和二手来源（研究文献），我们描述了我们在其中标记为“伊朗古典舞”的内容这篇论文不仅是人文学术领域的实证研究的重要资源，而且更重要的是，对于实证美学、情感心理学、跨文化心理学和情感神经科学而言也是如此。为此，我们（1）描述伊朗古典舞的美学、特征和历史；(2)概述定义和系统化问题；(3) 概述过去 40 年来伊朗古典舞的文化复杂性和社会政治问题，这些问题塑造了伊朗古典舞目前的形式。1979 年政治革命（伊朗阳历年：1358）之后，舞蹈在伊朗——无论是作为日常活动还是作为文化遗产——首先被禁止，现在仍然受到严格限制。国际跨学科研究团队可以通过将伊朗古典舞牢固地纳入人类舞蹈的实证研究中，为未来保护伊朗古典舞做出贡献。我们概述了伊朗古典舞蹈、数据集资源和专家社区的实证研究观点。