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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...2 October 2009
Abu Dhabi
Kun Lbokator, traditional martial arts in Cambodia
part of ritual offerings to local deities and in other festive events, along with elements such as dance, music and traditional medicine. An embodiment of the country’s social, cultural and religious values, Kun Lbokator is widely practiced among Cambodians, regardless of their age, gender and educational backgrounds or status. Sentence to be dr... Cambodia
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ticks 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...2 October 2009
Abu Dhabi
Al-Ayyala, a traditional performing art of the Sultanate of Oman and the United Arab Emirates
ern Oman and throughout the United Arab Emirates. Al-Ayyala involves chanted poetry, drum music and dance, and simulates a battle scene. Two rows of about twenty men face each other, carrying thin bamboo sticks to signify spears or swords. Between the rows musicians play large and small drums, tambourines and brass cymbals. The rows of men move the... United Arab Emirates
, Oman
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Christian season of Lent. The central festivity is Schemenlaufen, a procession of masked, costumed dancers. The main characters are in pairs, one man wearing rotating bells and another wearing larger bells weighing up to 35 kg. Together, they perform a special dance of jumps and bows, with the bells producing a mix of high and low tones. A total o...7 December 2012
Paris
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rough the western part of the city. This procession is central to the event, involving 40,000 devotees who dance and sing in an offering to the patron saint. The dance has a sacred significance for the sixty-nine fraternities involved, which are greeted in the streets in a euphoric atmosphere where the music of 7,000 musicians resonates. The heavy...14 December 2019
Bogotá
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8.COM : Examination of requests for International Assistance
stan has requested International Assistance in the amount of US$90,590 for Safeguarding of the ibex dance and song of Pakistan (No. 00554) : The ibex dance and song enacts a hunting scene, when young men dressed as snow leopards try to hunt others dressed as ibex while villagers arrive playing drums and waving big sticks to save their livest...7 December 2013
Baku
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g, on time, its third report on the status of the element ‘Mongol Biyelgee, Mongolian traditional folk dance’, inscribed in 2009 on the List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding; Takes note of the efforts described in the report submitted by Mongolia to safeguard the element, in particular through advancing research an...3 December 2022
Rabat
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Three new elements inscribed on the Urgent Safeguarding List
new elements on the List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding: Isukuti dance of Isukha and Idakho communities of Western Kenya (Kenya) Male-child cleansing ceremony of the Lango of central northern Uganda (Uganda) Mapoyo oral tradition and its symbolic reference points within their ancestral territory (Bolivarian Repu... Belgium
, Kenya
, Uganda
, Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)
25 November 2014
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Performing Arts (UDUPI) (Alternate): ● Erik Mueggler France The Cantu in paghjella: a secular and liturgical oral tradition of Corsica 00315 (Examiner): ● Associazione Musa - Musiche, Canti e Danze tradizionali delle Quattro Province / Musa Association - Music, Song...7 May 2009
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