Modern Dance Created in Germany: The Safeguarding and Creative Practice of Dance Heritage
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Modern Dance Created in Germany: The Safeguarding and Creative Practice of Dance Heritage
In 2022, the practice of Modern Dance in Germany was added to UNESCO’s International Inventory of Intangible Cultural Heritage. The following article traces the impulses and developments of this practice, emphasising its main characteristics and social functions. In addition, it examines the problems of reconciling the safeguarding of traditional knowledge with how to develop it creatively in the way dance traditions are practised today. Finally, there is an analysis of the current challenges and perspectives by a living heritage of the practice of Modern Dance.
