Singapore, Brunei, Indonesia and Malaysia to Nominate Malay Dance Form for UNESCO Cultural Heritage List
The nomination would be Singapore’s first joint bid for a performing art and could help safeguard regional traditions, the heritage board said.
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Singapore joins regional bid to add Malay dance form zapin to UNESCO intangible cultural heritage list
SINGAPORE: Singapore, Brunei, Indonesia and Malaysia will be putting up a joint bid for zapin, a traditional Malay performing art with deep roots in the region, to be inscribed on UNESCO's intangible cultural heritage list.
The four countries are targeting submissions by March 2027 as an effort to preserve the arts and culture that have developed across countries in the Southeast Asian region.
Kuala Lumpur, Sep 24 (Latin Press) Malaysia announced today that it will collaborate with Brunei, Indonesia and Singapore in a joint candidacy to enroll the traditional zapin dance in the Unesco World Heritage Representative List. The post Malaysia joins the regional candidacy of zapin before the Unesco first appeared on News Prensa Latina.
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