Given the recent favor bestowed in Taiwan on things "native," the music and dance of Taiwan's aboriginal peoples have been staged as an art form, and groups of indigenous people have formed aboriginal dance troupes. Using anthropological methodology, they have studied and recorded the disappearing songs and steps of every indigenous community.
反觀近年台灣興起一股本土熱潮，例如原住民的樂舞，不但被搬上舞台，一群原住民還成立了「原舞者」舞團，以人類學的研究方法到各部落學習瀕臨失傳的歌舞。