# Rediscovering heritage through dance

- Institution: TED
- Department: TED@UPS
- Speaker: Amelia Laytham
- Year: 2016
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/amelia_laytham_rediscovering_heritage_through_dance)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Choosing to shed her language, accent, traditions and culture in order to assimilate in the United States as a teenage immigrant, it wasn't until Amelia Laytham embraced her Indonesian heritage through dance that she felt truly at home. With two other members of the Modero Dance Company, she performs a traditional Balinese Birds of Paradise dance to prove that it's possible to live in duality and still be a whole.

## Lectures

1. [Rediscovering heritage through dance](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/amelia_laytham_rediscovering_heritage_through_dance/5bd314a9d1fb), 9 min (TED's player)