
Cultural Complex of Bumba-meu-boi from Maranhão
practice is a period of renovation during which energies are reinvigorated, and is transmitted through children’s groups, dance workshops, and spontaneously within the group....
BrazilLanguage, dance and music of the Garifuna
,Language, dance and music of the Garifuna A population of mixed origin incorporating cultural elements of indigenous Caribbean and African groups, the Garifuna settled along the Atlantic coast of Central America after being forced to flee from the Caribbean island of Saint Vincent in the eighteenth century. Today, Garifuna communities mainly live...
Belize, Honduras
First report of Croatia on the status of the element "Ojkanje singing"
stivals, exhibitions, public meetings, interactive media and public performances by organized music and dance and informal groups; (v) support to Ojkanje singing through state- and local government-led development and cultural programmes; (vi) teaching of Ojkanje singing as an extra-curricular subject in a primary school; (vii) and the preparation...
Sustaining Seperu folk dance and associated practices
,Identification, capacity-building, safeguarding and promotion of traditional dances of Togo as a vector of sustainable cultural development Implemented by CUL.DEV (Culture and Development), an accredited NGO under the Convention, this twenty-five-month project aims to identify, safeguard and promote traditional dances in Togo. The project involves...
Botswana2023-08-02 - 28-02-2025>
Completion of the capacity-building programme in the Southern Cone
ied out for seven months in six milongas (popular evenings where men and women gather in local clubs to dance tango) of Buenos Aires and to deliver the related publication to the two community associations involved, the Association of Teachers, Dancers and Choreographers of Argentinian Tango and the Association of Milonga Organizers, as well as to...
Argentina, Paraguay
, Uruguay
13 February 2014>
Action Plan for the Safeguarding and Promotion of the Oral Tradition of Gelede
preparations, singers and drummers open the night-time ceremony, followed by an orchestra and masked dancers wearing splendid costumes. The project aims at safeguarding the Gelede tradition in communities across Benin, Nigeria and Togo. Following the initiatives of the government of Benin, which has constructed the International House of Gelede,...
Benefitting country(ies) : Benin Nigeria Togo1 October 2003 - 1 November 2008>
Living pictures of Galeras, Sucre
magical realism. The living pictures are accompanied by other cultural practices such as rhymes, songs, dance, traditional music, local cuisine and crafts. The most significant expression of ephemeral folk art in Colombia, it involves all inhabitants of the municipality. Children are encouraged to participate from an early age, allowing them to acq...
Colombiaage of Humanity: Bailes Chinos are brotherhoods of musicians who express their faith through music, dance and singing in the context of commemoration festivities. The practice stretches mainly from the area known as the Norte Chico to the central region of Chile and comprises five fully differentiated styles, each named after the valley or basin w...
28 November 2014>Paris
The Committee Takes note that Thailand has nominated Nora, dance drama in southern Thailand (no. 01587) for inscription on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity: Nora is a lively and acrobatic form of dance theatre and improvisational singing from southern Thailand. Performances normally include a long oral invo...
18 December 2021>Online
Winter festivities, Carnival of Podence
it each other. During the performance, the Caretos – modelled on the traditional masked character – dance around women with their cowbells, rhythmically moving their hips. Possibly connected symbolically to old fertility rites, this action is performed by those behind the mask as a way of interacting with others anonymously. The Caretos wear ti...
Portugal