{"today":{"date":"2026-11-04","slug":"gotipua","title":"Gotipua","native":"ଗୋଟିପୁଅ","family":"dance","familyLabel":"Dance","place":"Raghurajpur, Odisha","country":"India","coordinates":{"lat":19.88,"lon":85.82},"condition":"stable","conditionLabel":"Stable","summary":"Acrobatic temple dance of Odisha performed by young boys dressed as Radha and Krishna, and the direct historical precursor of classical Odissi.","url":"https://folkroom.org/art-forms/gotipua","embedUrl":"https://folkroom.org/embed/art-forms/gotipua","ogImageUrl":"https://folkroom.org/art-forms/gotipua/opengraph-image","photo":"https://folkroom.org/assets/wiki/gotipua.jpg","credit":"Rangan Datta Wiki · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","citations":{"wikipedia":"{{cite web |title=Gotipua (Raghurajpur, Odisha, India) |url=https://folkroom.org/art-forms/gotipua |website=folkroom — Archive of Living Traditions |access-date=2026-11-04}}","bibtex":"@misc{folkroom_gotipua_2026,\n  title = {Gotipua (Raghurajpur, Odisha, India) --- folkroom Archive of Living Traditions},\n  author = {{Folkroom Archive}},\n  year = {2026},\n  url = {https://folkroom.org/art-forms/gotipua},\n  note = {Accessed 2026-11-04; text licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0}\n}"}},"recent":[{"date":"2026-11-03","slug":"danza-de-tijeras","title":"Danza de tijeras","native":"Supaypa wasin tusuq","family":"dance","familyLabel":"Dance","place":"Ayacucho & Huancavelica","country":"Peru","coordinates":{"lat":-13.16,"lon":-74.22},"condition":"stable","conditionLabel":"Stable","summary":"Quechua ritual competition dance of the southern Peruvian Andes performed with polished iron blades clashed in the dancer's right hand to violin and harp.","url":"https://folkroom.org/art-forms/danza-de-tijeras","embedUrl":"https://folkroom.org/embed/art-forms/danza-de-tijeras","ogImageUrl":"https://folkroom.org/art-forms/danza-de-tijeras/opengraph-image","photo":"https://folkroom.org/showcase/danza-tijeras.jpg","credit":"Folkroom Archive · CC BY-SA 4.0","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","citations":{"wikipedia":"{{cite web |title=Danza de tijeras (Ayacucho & Huancavelica, Peru) |url=https://folkroom.org/art-forms/danza-de-tijeras |website=folkroom — Archive of Living Traditions |access-date=2026-11-04}}","bibtex":"@misc{folkroom_danza_de_tijeras_2026,\n  title = {Danza de tijeras (Ayacucho & Huancavelica, Peru) --- folkroom Archive of Living Traditions},\n  author = {{Folkroom Archive}},\n  year = {2026},\n  url = {https://folkroom.org/art-forms/danza-de-tijeras},\n  note = {Accessed 2026-11-04; text licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0}\n}"}},{"date":"2026-11-02","slug":"al-sadu-weaving","title":"Al Sadu Weaving","native":"السدو","family":"textile","familyLabel":"Textile","place":"Al-Ahsa & Badia","country":"Saudi Arabia","coordinates":{"lat":25.38,"lon":49.58},"condition":"fading","conditionLabel":"Fading","summary":"Bedouin warp-faced plain weave woven on ground looms from hand-spun camel and sheep wool in desert-inspired geometric bands.","url":"https://folkroom.org/art-forms/al-sadu-weaving","embedUrl":"https://folkroom.org/embed/art-forms/al-sadu-weaving","ogImageUrl":"https://folkroom.org/art-forms/al-sadu-weaving/opengraph-image","photo":"https://folkroom.org/showcase/al-sadu-weaver.jpg","credit":"Folkroom Archive · CC BY-SA 4.0","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","citations":{"wikipedia":"{{cite web |title=Al Sadu Weaving (Al-Ahsa & Badia, Saudi Arabia) |url=https://folkroom.org/art-forms/al-sadu-weaving |website=folkroom — Archive of Living Traditions |access-date=2026-11-04}}","bibtex":"@misc{folkroom_al_sadu_weaving_2026,\n  title = {Al Sadu Weaving (Al-Ahsa & Badia, Saudi Arabia) --- folkroom Archive of Living Traditions},\n  author = {{Folkroom Archive}},\n  year = {2026},\n  url = {https://folkroom.org/art-forms/al-sadu-weaving},\n  note = {Accessed 2026-11-04; text licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0}\n}"}},{"date":"2026-11-01","slug":"biyelgee","title":"Mongolian Biyelgee","native":"Монгол биелгээ","family":"dance","familyLabel":"Dance","place":"Khovd & Uvs, Western Mongolia","country":"Mongolia","coordinates":{"lat":48,"lon":91.64},"condition":"critical","conditionLabel":"Critical","summary":"Nomadic upper-body dance performed half-seated inside the narrow space of the Mongolian ger tent to the two-stringed ikel lute.","url":"https://folkroom.org/art-forms/biyelgee","embedUrl":"https://folkroom.org/embed/art-forms/biyelgee","ogImageUrl":"https://folkroom.org/art-forms/biyelgee/opengraph-image","photo":"https://folkroom.org/showcase/biyelgee-dancer.jpg","credit":"Folkroom Archive · CC BY-SA 4.0","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","citations":{"wikipedia":"{{cite web |title=Mongolian Biyelgee (Khovd & Uvs, Western Mongolia, Mongolia) |url=https://folkroom.org/art-forms/biyelgee |website=folkroom — Archive of Living Traditions |access-date=2026-11-04}}","bibtex":"@misc{folkroom_biyelgee_2026,\n  title = {Mongolian Biyelgee (Khovd & Uvs, Western Mongolia, Mongolia) --- folkroom Archive of Living Traditions},\n  author = {{Folkroom Archive}},\n  year = {2026},\n  url = {https://folkroom.org/art-forms/biyelgee},\n  note = {Accessed 2026-11-04; text licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0}\n}"}},{"date":"2026-10-31","slug":"kalbelia","title":"Kalbelia","native":"कालबेलिया","family":"dance","familyLabel":"Dance","place":"Thar Desert, Rajasthan","country":"India","coordinates":{"lat":26.24,"lon":73.02},"condition":"stable","conditionLabel":"Stable","summary":"Whirling desert dance and improvised folk songs of the nomadic Kalbelia community of Rajasthan, accompanied by the pungi gourd reed pipe and khanjari.","url":"https://folkroom.org/art-forms/kalbelia","embedUrl":"https://folkroom.org/embed/art-forms/kalbelia","ogImageUrl":"https://folkroom.org/art-forms/kalbelia/opengraph-image","photo":"https://folkroom.org/showcase/kalbelia-dance.jpg","credit":"Folkroom Archive · CC BY-SA 4.0","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","citations":{"wikipedia":"{{cite web |title=Kalbelia (Thar Desert, Rajasthan, India) |url=https://folkroom.org/art-forms/kalbelia |website=folkroom — Archive of Living Traditions |access-date=2026-11-04}}","bibtex":"@misc{folkroom_kalbelia_2026,\n  title = {Kalbelia (Thar Desert, Rajasthan, India) --- folkroom Archive of Living Traditions},\n  author = {{Folkroom Archive}},\n  year = {2026},\n  url = {https://folkroom.org/art-forms/kalbelia},\n  note = {Accessed 2026-11-04; text licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0}\n}"}},{"date":"2026-10-30","slug":"channapatna-lacquer-turning","title":"Channapatna Wood & Lac Turning","native":"ಚನ್ನಪಟ್ಟಣ ಗೊಂಬೆಗಳು","family":"craft","familyLabel":"Craft","place":"Channapatna, Ramanagara, Karnataka","country":"India","coordinates":{"lat":12.65,"lon":77.21},"condition":"unknown","conditionLabel":"Not yet sourced","summary":"Lathe-turned ivory-wood (Wrightia tinctoria) craft coated on the spinning mandrel with sticks of shellac compounded with turmeric, indigo, and kumkum.","url":"https://folkroom.org/art-forms/channapatna-lacquer-turning","embedUrl":"https://folkroom.org/embed/art-forms/channapatna-lacquer-turning","ogImageUrl":"https://folkroom.org/art-forms/channapatna-lacquer-turning/opengraph-image","photo":"https://folkroom.org/showcase/channapatna-artisan.jpg","credit":"Folkroom Archive · CC BY-SA 4.0","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","citations":{"wikipedia":"{{cite web |title=Channapatna Wood & Lac Turning (Channapatna, Ramanagara, Karnataka, India) |url=https://folkroom.org/art-forms/channapatna-lacquer-turning |website=folkroom — Archive of Living Traditions |access-date=2026-11-04}}","bibtex":"@misc{folkroom_channapatna_lacquer_turning_2026,\n  title = {Channapatna Wood & Lac Turning (Channapatna, Ramanagara, Karnataka, India) --- folkroom Archive of Living Traditions},\n  author = {{Folkroom Archive}},\n  year = {2026},\n  url = {https://folkroom.org/art-forms/channapatna-lacquer-turning},\n  note = {Accessed 2026-11-04; text licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0}\n}"}},{"date":"2026-10-29","slug":"pattachitra-scroll-painting","title":"Raghurajpur Pattachitra","native":"ପଟ୍ଟଚିତ୍ର","family":"painting","familyLabel":"Painting","place":"Raghurajpur & Puri, Odisha","country":"India","coordinates":{"lat":19.88,"lon":85.83},"condition":"unknown","conditionLabel":"Not yet sourced","summary":"Cloth-scroll and etched palm-leaf (tala pattachitra) narrative painting prepared with tamarind-seed paste, chalk gesso, and conch-shell white.","url":"https://folkroom.org/art-forms/pattachitra-scroll-painting","embedUrl":"https://folkroom.org/embed/art-forms/pattachitra-scroll-painting","ogImageUrl":"https://folkroom.org/art-forms/pattachitra-scroll-painting/opengraph-image","photo":"https://folkroom.org/showcase/pattachitra-artist.jpg","credit":"Folkroom Archive · CC BY-SA 4.0","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","citations":{"wikipedia":"{{cite web |title=Raghurajpur Pattachitra (Raghurajpur & Puri, Odisha, India) |url=https://folkroom.org/art-forms/pattachitra-scroll-painting |website=folkroom — Archive of Living Traditions |access-date=2026-11-04}}","bibtex":"@misc{folkroom_pattachitra_scroll_painting_2026,\n  title = {Raghurajpur Pattachitra (Raghurajpur & Puri, Odisha, India) --- folkroom Archive of Living Traditions},\n  author = {{Folkroom Archive}},\n  year = {2026},\n  url = {https://folkroom.org/art-forms/pattachitra-scroll-painting},\n  note = {Accessed 2026-11-04; text licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0}\n}"}},{"date":"2026-10-28","slug":"chholiya","title":"Chholiya","native":"छोलिया","family":"dance","familyLabel":"Dance","place":"Almora & Pithoragarh, Uttarakhand","country":"India","coordinates":{"lat":29.59,"lon":79.65},"condition":"stable","conditionLabel":"Stable","summary":"Kumaoni sword-and-shield martial procession dance of the central Himalayas performed at Rajput wedding barat processions with brass turi horns.","url":"https://folkroom.org/art-forms/chholiya","embedUrl":"https://folkroom.org/embed/art-forms/chholiya","ogImageUrl":"https://folkroom.org/art-forms/chholiya/opengraph-image","photo":"https://folkroom.org/showcase/chholiya-kumaon.jpg","credit":"Folkroom Archive · CC BY-SA 4.0","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","citations":{"wikipedia":"{{cite web |title=Chholiya (Almora & Pithoragarh, Uttarakhand, India) |url=https://folkroom.org/art-forms/chholiya |website=folkroom — Archive of Living Traditions |access-date=2026-11-04}}","bibtex":"@misc{folkroom_chholiya_2026,\n  title = {Chholiya (Almora & Pithoragarh, Uttarakhand, India) --- folkroom Archive of Living Traditions},\n  author = {{Folkroom Archive}},\n  year = {2026},\n  url = {https://folkroom.org/art-forms/chholiya},\n  note = {Accessed 2026-11-04; text licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0}\n}"}}],"feedUrl":"https://folkroom.org/feed.xml","archiveUrl":"https://folkroom.org/today"}