
reciation to Kenya for submitting, on time, its second report on the status of the element ‘Isukuti dance of Isukha and Idakho communities of Western Kenya’, inscribed in 2014 on the List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding; Takes note of the efforts undertaken by the State Party to safeguard the element, in particula...
8 December 2023>Kasane
the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity: Son is a form of music and dance combining African rhythms with Spanish musical elements and spread throughout the Caribbean. The lyrics of the songs are poetic. Most are love songs, focusing on the beauty of women and the pain of heartbreak. Couples dance close together with...
4 December 2015>Windhoek
Intangible Heritage domains in the 2003 Convention
ts from multiple domains. Take, for example, a shamanistic rite. This might involve traditional music and dance, prayers and songs, clothing and sacred items as well as ritual and ceremonial practices and an acute awareness and knowledge of the natural world. Similarly, festivals are complex expressions of intangible cultural heritage that include...
...20 December 2023>gment of ‘farmers’ music’ emphasizes the percussive sounds of metal gongs and animal-hide drums; a mask dance presents four comic scenes depicting people from different social classes; a tightrope walking act sees an acrobat on a high-wire engaged in witty exchanges with a clown below; in a puppet play, more than fifty puppets act out seven s...
Republic of Koreaticks and decorated with figurines and depictions of every aspect of life. The towering masked figure dances at the culmination of a series of other masquerades, protected by six ‘police’ and carrying a mirror with the power to draw in and punish evildoers. Ijele mask carriers, chosen by ballot, seclude themselves for three months, during which...
NigeriaThe Committee Takes note that the Republic of Korea has nominated Nongak, community band music, dance and rituals in the Republic of Korea (No. 00717) for inscription on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity: Nongak is a popular performing art derived from communal rites and rustic entertainments. It has evolved...
28 November 2014>Paris
r and candles are handed out to everyone present for good health. The festival culminates in a fire-dance in the evening as the highest form of veneration of the Saints. People silently form a circle around the burning embers led by the sacred drum, and the Nestinari, who are spiritual and physical leaders through whom the saints express their will...
BulgariaPerforming arts (such as traditional music, dance and theatre)
Performing arts,Performing arts (such as traditional music, dance and theatre),The performing arts range from vocal and instrumental music, dance and theatre to pantomime, sung verse and beyond. They include numerous cultural expressions that reflect human creativity and that are also found, to some extent, in many other intangible cultural heritag...
...30 May 2018>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) : Cuba1 June 2005 - 1 August 2008>