Dancing around the Planet
Core of Culture preserves endangered dances – part of our intangible world heritage.
If you have seen the wild tsechu masked dances in Bhutan, you have seen something special. Will they continue?
Bhutan Dance project underway:
Bhutan Dance Database and High-Definition Media Archive. “To date the Database has over 200 separate dance entries interfacing with more than 150 hours of high-definition video documentation,” reports Database Designer and Research Associate Gerard Houghton. “Advances in user-friendly digital technologies help make a large amount of high quality visual material easily available to researchers, and make the Database an ongoing research tool as it grows. With this Database, Bhutan is leading the world in ancient dance preservation.”
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Database entry Film Data page
Since January, 2005, the CoC Production team has filmed Sacred Dance Festivals at Punakha, Trashiyangtze ( Chorten Kora ), Paro, Dzongdra, Ura, and Nyimalung. In addition, danced rituals performed by a pre-Buddhist Bon-po Village Oracle have been filmed, as well as the dance technique demonstration of a particularly rare dance, called Chamchen. The production team includes Emmy award winning television producer Amy Christenson, and independent film producer Linda Burns.
Dance based feature film directed by Karma Tshering.
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