As of September, 2017, The Choreomundus Alumni Association founded the Operating Committee for Dance as Intangible Cultural Heritage of the heritage management, research, better safeguarding practice, inclusiveness and intercultural dialogue. In its efforts in this field, the OCDICH fosters and encourages the discourse, publication, dissemination of knowledge and the safeguarding of dance as intangible cultural heritage, and other closely related areas of study through collaboration with the Choreomundus Master program, the UNESCO formed ICHNGO FORUM and other related higher institutions and organizations whose aim is to implement the 2003 convention for the safeguarding of ICH.
The OCDICH ensures the research activity and availability of the necessary expertise for the evaluation of dance heritage practices, with the ultimate aim of making the research and safeguarding practice compatible with the 2003 Convention’s legal requirements in place.The members of the Committee are current students and alumni from the Choreomundus Program that explore dance as intangible cultural heritage through the disciplines of ethnochoreology, dance anthropology, dance studies and heritage studies.
The members of the association focus on fieldwork and formal analysis of movement, and engage with a variety of theoretical and methodological frameworks in order to observe, analyse, document, and evaluate dances, thereby developing an appreciation of dance that is comparative, cross-cultural, applied, and embodied. Furthermore, the members are engaged in safeguarding various bodily expressions through their work with communities and are equipped to make sense of intangible heritage within a culturally diverse world, to promote culturally appropriate modes of knowledge transmission, and to engage with cultural differences and problems of social exclusion. Many of the members continued their research on ICH through respective PhD programs, while other appear as the founders of ICH related NGOs, work in ministries of culture or as professors or teaching assistants at dance and heritage departments of various universities.
The OCDICH ensures the research activity and availability of the necessary expertise for the evaluation of dance heritage practices, with the ultimate aim of making the research and safeguarding practice compatible with the 2003 Convention’s legal requirements in place.The members of the Committee are current students and alumni from the Choreomundus Program that explore dance as intangible cultural heritage through the disciplines of ethnochoreology, dance anthropology, dance studies and heritage studies.
The members of the association focus on fieldwork and formal analysis of movement, and engage with a variety of theoretical and methodological frameworks in order to observe, analyse, document, and evaluate dances, thereby developing an appreciation of dance that is comparative, cross-cultural, applied, and embodied. Furthermore, the members are engaged in safeguarding various bodily expressions through their work with communities and are equipped to make sense of intangible heritage within a culturally diverse world, to promote culturally appropriate modes of knowledge transmission, and to engage with cultural differences and problems of social exclusion. Many of the members continued their research on ICH through respective PhD programs, while other appear as the founders of ICH related NGOs, work in ministries of culture or as professors or teaching assistants at dance and heritage departments of various universities.
