Revitalization of East Nusa Tenggara Traditional Dance through Identification and Inventory as Protection to Indonesia Culture

East Nusa Tenggara has rich and various cultural heritages, but it is indeed neglected, displaced, and ignored. The treatment and retention way, as a main part to sustain the culture, is also poor. Dealing with the problem, higher education plays a role to keep nation’s culture. Regarding that, the problem of this paper is how the identification, inventory, and ease of access process of traditional dance in East Nusa Tenggara are conducted. The specific aim of this paper is to identify the traditional dance of East Nusa Tenggara, to invent and process nation’s culture in form of traditional dance of East Nusa Tenggara so it stays original as it is, and to make easy access for the people, both domestic and international people, to access nation’s culture collection, especially traditional dance in East Nusa Tenggara. Qualitative research method is applied in this paper to get data of traditional dance in East Nusa Tenggara. The data are collected through identification of the dance, starting from the form, starter, and function. Then, the data are gathered through some steps, i.e. observation, video recording, photo taking, and interview with the related parties about the dance. The plan of this research is by doing field observation, dance identification, dance inventory, and East Nusa Tenggara traditional dance documentation. The result of this research is mini encyclopedia of East Nusa Tenggara traditional dance that is original and easy to be accessed by the society