  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. This paper summarizes the difference dance
video archival techniques and systems. Keywords: Multimedia, Culture Media,
Metadata archival and retrieval systems, MPEG-7, XML.
