The movements and adaptation of intangible cultural heritage due to migration offers the potential for understanding the ways in which communities form and re-shape the notion of ‘home’ in the new context of a diaspora. Performance is a key way that identity is played out, whether in dance, music, or theatre, or as cultural performances in public and domestic spaces and events. This chapter will focus on two examples of performance among the South Asian communities in Britain in order to examine how these different forms help to negotiate the sense of belonging for communities of migration, but also how they are often contested within the communities, particularly through debates about adaptation and preservation. A study of the history of the development of British Bhangra in Southall shows the transnational movements of music between India and the UK, and the ways that the second generation of South Asians forged a new performance movement through the creation of a musical genre. The development of the Belfast Mela festival examines how the small South Asian community negotiated a space for itself through performance in a divided city, and the impact of this in attempting to create a means of reconciliation between communities. These performance forms and events demonstrate the complexities of the ways that cultural heritage moves and transforms across place and time through the act of migration and resettling. The chapter will use a methodological framework combining cultural studies with performance studies, examining the results of fieldwork undertaken from a range of related projects over the past 15 years.