Published March 14, 2026 | Version v1

Swange - Tiv Social Dance - Swange (Nigeria)

Authors/Creators

  • 1. Movement Journal / Triadic Labs

Description

Movement Journal — A Triadic Labs Publication

The first peer-reviewed publication infrastructure where human movement is the primary scholarly object.

Cultural Citation

Social dance of the Tiv people, blending traditional and modern influences. Learned from Elder Torkuma Aondofa in Makurdi, who has preserved Swange through decades of cultural change.

Movement Data

  • Tradition: Swange
  • Country: Nigeria
  • Format: FBX motion capture file
  • Duration: 3:30
  • Confluence Zone: Niger Delta

This entry is part of the Movement Journal Corpus — a living archive of human movement across global traditions. Movement Journal treats embodied knowledge as the primary scholarly contribution, not supplementary material.

Published by Triadic Labs

Notes

SUPERSEDED — this early metadata-only (README) entry is superseded by the canonical video record at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21302796, which carries the performance video and the registered Crossref DOI. This record is retained because published Zenodo DOIs cannot be deleted.

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