Ulaanbaatar
Top inheritor of intangible cultural heritage for 2020 selected
Art & Culture
Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/. Citizen of Malchin soum, Uvs aimag, ikhel player, biyelgee dancer Khumbaa Jutaa has been selected as the top inheritor of intangible cultural heritage for the year of 2020.
Born in 1943, J.Khumbaa learned how to dance bayad biyelgee as well as to play ikhel from her parents at the age of 10. She participated in various festivals on the international and national level, such as ‘Altan Tulga’ folk arts festival /1980,1981/, the Folk Arts Festival organized on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the People’s Revolution of Mongolia /2001/, the festival organized for the safeguarding of the traditional morin khuur music of Mongolia by UNESCO /2007/, and ‘Nomadic Mongolia-2018’ cultural festival, and was awarded with medals and certificates as recognition of her contribution in promoting the cultural heritage.
Along with her students, she was also involved in the making of several documentaries including ‘Tsatsal’, ‘Ikhel Khuuriin Egshig’, and ‘Bayadiin Khurimlakh Yos’ as well as the joint Mongolian-French documentary ‘Morin Khuur’. She is registered as one of 102 inheritors of intangible cultural heritage in the national list of inheritors of intangible cultural heritage approved by the Cabinet in 2019.
