Traditional puppetry of Japan, China, and Indonesia, which are inscribed on the UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage Lists, will be demonstrated at the National Intangible Heritage Center in Jeonju, Korea, from 5 to 6 October 2018. The performances will be accompanied...
The Awa Dance Festival, also known as the Awa Odori Dance Festival, is the largest traditional festival in Tokushima Prefecture, Japan, and has over four hundred years of history. It is held in mid-August every year. Awa is the old...
The Udaipur-based West Zone Cultural Centre (WZCC) has long supported the ongoing Rediscovering Gavari Project (RGP) to promote Gavari, an indigenous ritual. As an effort to bring Gavari dance drama to the stage for the first time, WZCC launched a...
The thirty-ninth International Annual Euroradio Folk Festival (EFF) will take place from 26 to 28 May 2018 in the Ostankino TV Tower, Moscow, Russia. The event is organized by the European Broadcasting Union, consisting of seventy-three members in fifty-six countries...
A puppet festival is a public-driven performance of tradition in Muragachha Colony in the Nadia District of West Bengal, about 120 km from Kolkata. It is organized by the local people under the aegis of Banglanatak dot com, a social...
The Ramayana Festival was held in six Indian cities—namely Delhi, Ayodhya, Lucknow, Kolkata, Hyderabad, and Ahmedabad from 20 to 26 January 2018 coinciding the celebration of the twenty-fifth year of ASEAN-India Dialogue. The Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR), which...
The PyeongChang 2018 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games will not only be a global sports festival but also provide an opportunity for visitors to encounter many forms of intangible cultural heritage. The PyeongChang 2018 Cultural Olympiad((The 2018 Gangneung Cultural Olympiad...
Bodu beru (literally “big drum”) is the most popular and one of the oldest surviving forms of music and dance in the Maldives. The tradition is thought to have been brought to the Maldives by African slaves in the nineteenth...
Performed by singers in rural areas of the greater Mymensigh region and greater Dhaka region, Pala Gaan is a theatrical experimentation using a combination of indigenous references and timely rhetoric. Typically the shows begin with Guru Bandana (an artistic expression...
The Asia-Pacific region is a sanctuary of expressive and performative cultures. Dance, being a staple medium of cultural expression, can and does assert belongingness and identity in a context of regionalism and heightened connectivity. The 10th One Asia in Dance...