Modern dance included in UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage List
![Modern dance Black and white photo of two women jumping together by hand. One leg is stretched forward and the other leg is bent backward.](/storages/kubi-reha/_processed_/5/7/csm_Moderner_Tanz_5d71a506f5.png)
On November 30, 2022, UNESCO included the practice of modern dance in Germany on the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. With this inclusion, UNESCO is honoring a creative form of expression that has not only fundamentally changed the entire dance landscape - including dance education - but is also seen as having important community-building, inclusive and intergenerational significance. The focus is on the creative expression of one's own body and non-standardized forms of movement. Modern dance is primarily about the development of individual movement motifs as well as the search for a common movement aesthetic with other dancers together.