Embodied cultural property: Contemporary and traditional dance practices

Abstract This article discusses the implications of recording and digitizing a variety cultural contemporary dance performance practices, core to European project known as WhoLoDancE, which focused on issues reuse, ownership, property, responsibility. The recordings subsequent processing material into digital data raised questions about responsibilities dancers who have contributed their project, particularly when it is transformed visualizations that can be accessed reused by others. not only focuses how value accrues in these kinds resources sometimes unexpected ways but also draws attention remains bound communities performed tends resist its abstraction from body commodified form property. then points dance, intangible heritage, self-regulating terms principles ownership attribution.