Safeguarding the Mbende Jerusarema Dance
Safeguarding the Mbende Jerusarema Dance,A popular dance style practised by the Zezuru Shona people living in eastern Zimbabwe, the Mbende Jerusarema is characterized by acrobatic and sensual movements by women and men, driven by a polyrhythmic drummer accompanied by men playing woodblock clappers and by women handclapping, yodelling and blowing wh...Benefitting country(ies) : Zimbabwe
1 November 2006 - 1 March 2009
Safeguarding of traditional music in Ethiopia
portant goal of this project is to collect through fieldwork, and to document traditional music and dance expressions in different parts of Ethiopia. Archiving - the recordings collected in the field and the documentation that goes with them will need to be archived to make them available to researchers and to the public at large. Training and...Benefitting country(ies) : Ethiopia
1 January 2005 - 1 January 2009
Action Plan for the Safeguarding and promotion of the Drametse Ngacham
well as neighbouring villages. The highlight of this festival is the Drametse gacham, a sacred mask dance, introduced in the sixteenth century and performed ever since. The safeguarding project primarily seeks to create sustainable foundations for the transmission of skills and expertise related to the Drametse Ngacham to new generations of pract...Benefitting country(ies) : Bhutan
1 October 2006 - 1 August 2009
Action Plan for the Safeguarding of the Vimbuza Healing Dance
Action Plan for the Safeguarding of the Vimbuza Healing Dance,Popular among the Tumbuka people, the Vimbuza is practised by renowned traditional healers in a special ritual. Patients slowly enter trance, while the audience performs songs to call helping spirits. Vimbuza is a useful complement to other forms of medical treatment. The safeguarding...Benefitting country(ies) : Malawi
1 November 2006 - 1 December 2009
Brotherhood of the Holy Spirit of the Congos of Villa Mella is distinguished in the fields of music, dance and popular festivities. The musicians play hand-drums called congos, which origin is attributed to the Holy Spirit. The Festival of the Holy Spirit, celebrated at Pentecost, features prayers, dances and singing, accompanied by the music of t...Benefitting country(ies) : Dominican Republic
1 January 2003 - 1 December 2009
Safeguarding of the Gulu Wamkulu, the Great Dance of the Chewa People
Safeguarding of the Gulu Wamkulu, the Great Dance of the Chewa People,Performed by the Chewa people of Malawi, Mozambique and Zambia, the Gule Wamkulu is a dance that accompanies initiation ceremonies, weddings, funerals and the installation of chiefs. Male dancers wear full costumes and masks made of wood and straw, expressing a great variety of s...Benefitting country(ies) : Malawi Mozambique Zambia
1 November 2006 - 1 December 2009
Action Plan for the Safeguarding of La Tumba Francesa
Action Plan for the Safeguarding of La Tumba Francesa,The dance, song and drumming style known as Tumba Francesa (French Drum) was brought to Cuba by Haitian slaves in the 1790s. It embodies one of the oldest and most tangible links to the Afro-Haitian heritage of Cuba’s Oriente province and developed from an eighteenth- century fusion of music f...Benefitting country(ies) : Cuba
1 June 2005 - 1 August 2008
Safeguarding of the Sacred Songs of the Voodoo Cult of the lakou Dereal of the Community of Bizoton
Bizoton,The Bizoton community is situated in the the Dereal lakou in Western Haïti. Every song and dance in the vodou cult can be associated with a prayer and every gesture that goes with it is codified in function of a specific divinity. Objectives: Identification and documentation of the sacred songs of the vodou cult of the Dereal lakou Ra...Benefitting country(ies) : Haiti
1 May 2008 - 1 December 2009
Action Plan for the Safeguarding of the Garifuna Language, Music and Dance
Action Plan for the Safeguarding of the Garifuna Language, Music and Dance,The Garifuna communities, spread over Belize, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua, have kept alive their common language, oral traditions, music and dances. Although still practiced on various occasions, these are changing considerably as the Garifuna language is less often sp...Benefitting country(ies) : Belize Guatemala Honduras Nicaragua
1 April 2006 - 1 June 2009
earchers as well as the communities concerned. A subregional festival of the Aka Pygmies’ music and dance will be organised, in addition to training seminars and radio and national television programmes. This project will contribute to sensitizing the populations of both countries and enrich their national identity, enabling them to obtain more...Benefitting country(ies) : Central African Republic Congo
1 December 2004 - 1 July 2008