If African culture were a tree, then dance would be its flowers, says choreographer and TED Idea Search winner Chinyanta Kabaso. In a captivating display of both traditional and modern dances, she showcases the beauty of these movements and explains how they reveal the history of migration and shared cultural connections of different ethnic groups across the continent.
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suicune2001
April 18, 2023 at 9:10 am
Interesting! Thanks for sharing!
Make Racists Afraid Again
April 18, 2023 at 9:18 am
Beautiful!
Diversity is Humanity’s Greatest Strength and I love it!
Roman Lee
April 18, 2023 at 9:28 am
I wish I could dance. That is amazing stuff.
MM D807
April 18, 2023 at 9:28 am
You are so beautiful ❤🥰😍
Mary McCluer
April 18, 2023 at 9:30 am
This could be a series! So much to share!
Bowie E
April 18, 2023 at 6:15 pm
I second! I’d definitely watch a docuseries on this!!
Lylyluvda 916
April 18, 2023 at 9:38 am
Knocked this one out of the park!
Doctor of the future
April 18, 2023 at 10:01 am
The Arab countries in North Africa have beautiful historical civilizations such as Egypt 🇪🇬🇪🇬♡♡💪🏻💪🏻
Trigaaman187 Fear my bullets
April 18, 2023 at 12:11 pm
Any videos?
Stephen Catton
April 18, 2023 at 10:26 am
Every continent, country and culture has its own unique dances. The fact that Africa has its own is nothinor unique. I’m not really sure what the point of this video is.
Stephen Catton
April 18, 2023 at 2:32 pm
@free2 Dance is important to most cultures…. and tells a story… So Africa is just the same…. Why is that worthy of a TED talk?
free2
April 18, 2023 at 2:40 pm
@Stephen Catton Because of the huge diversity of dances in one continent. Take Europe for instance. There is always going to be a smaller number of ethnic dances in a continent made up of countries like Europe than one like Africa, with thousands of tribes spanning a huge land mass, each with distinct dance styles. Because of the historical significance of dance in African culture. Dance was used both in Africa and the Americas by slaves as a communication tool between slaves or colonized people when direct communication was not allowed. Because African dance styles have influenced a plethora of modern dance styles. I’m from the US and almost all music in our country has been influenced in some way by African music.
Stephen Catton
April 18, 2023 at 4:05 pm
@free2 Well as you say Africa is much bigger than Europe so you would expect there to be more. But if you grouped the land mass of Europ with Russia, China India etc they would have more cultural dances than Africa… so what ? I am from the UK and we also have many differing cultural dances going back centuries and none that I am aware of were influenced by Africans. Not until very recently… say 60 year or so and that was with popular music. So that’s why I don’t understand why African dance is worth a TED talk.
free2
April 18, 2023 at 4:25 pm
@Stephen Catton No, it’s not about the land mass. The area you describe is a large area but it does not have the diversity of dance styles in the African continent.
There are over 3000 tribes in Africa. There is no comparison when it comes to the diversity of dance in Africa and the region you mention.
Also, rock and roll is rooted in the gospel, jazz, and blues of the 1940s. Rock and roll started out in the black communities of the US. That music became rock and roll and then crossed over to the UK where British artists added their own influence to it. Please read up on the history of British rock and roll. Also, modern British music is heavily influenced by African and Caribbean rhythms due to the large number of Caribbean immigrants living in the Uk.
free2
April 18, 2023 at 4:46 pm
@Stephen Catton Allow me to add this – The Rolling Stones we’re heavily influenced by American black music. They named the band after a Muddy Waters song after all.
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April 18, 2023 at 10:39 am
This would be hard on the feet
Dimaz
April 18, 2023 at 10:39 am
yea, shake those buns sistaaa 😙
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April 18, 2023 at 10:43 am
Lovely, informative and uplifting!
C Praise
April 18, 2023 at 10:50 am
Yes!!!!
Emmett Johnson
April 18, 2023 at 11:05 am
Yayy!!
Rabeel Soomro
April 18, 2023 at 11:08 am
Interesting
AranAnarchy
April 18, 2023 at 11:21 am
Very beautiful!
S G
April 18, 2023 at 11:25 am
Beautiful dances with incredible history! So cool that each cultures dances have followed it’s people throughout time and around the world 💚💚
Sasmita Anjani
April 18, 2023 at 11:38 am
fabolous..I like the concept on this content 😍
Dark Night
April 18, 2023 at 11:39 am
Gal!!! Wow!!! Thank you for Sharing!!! Love it!!!
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April 18, 2023 at 12:49 pm
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Cécile Reyna
April 18, 2023 at 1:50 pm
I’ve always thought dancing being african is a whole new level that other cultures can’t even think about. I’m latina and dance is important to us but not to this level, it’s so beautiful.
lone_lumino
April 18, 2023 at 2:51 pm
She touches my heart. Her warm voice, the glow in her eyes, her dignity and beauty, so youthful and yet so mature, so embodied, so confident, so gracious. For some reason it makes me feel emotional, to see a woman dancing without fear, in complete liberation within her own body, while honouring her people’s history and culture. The dances are exuberant and beautiful and it’s amazing to behold how embodied the dancer is; she’s in complete ease and command of herself but there is no swagger or arrogance or vanity. It’s just beautiful and so divinely feminine.
AircraftOfSomeType
April 18, 2023 at 3:01 pm
ted talk has become so cringe lol
Prince Boateng Asare
April 18, 2023 at 4:10 pm
So beautiful ❤️
Bee
April 18, 2023 at 4:16 pm
Dang she got the moves
Abigail McKern Walking With Poetry
April 18, 2023 at 9:59 pm
Really beautiful and interesting including all the costumes, thank you for posting!
Liliana Degregori
April 18, 2023 at 11:50 pm
Just so interesting and beautiful!!!!!!!
Kevin Wells
April 19, 2023 at 12:38 am
If I had a hope for any particular day it would be that somehow through knowledge I felt more enlightened than the day before. That was beautiful. I was fortunate to know people from a few of these countries. I still miss A.O. Akepmplu (I probably spelled it wrong) ** I forgot the most important thing to say here… thank you for this beautiful education.
wholelottalov_
April 19, 2023 at 12:46 am
Brilliant
Miky ॐ
April 19, 2023 at 12:54 am
Incredible beautifull face
Кирилл Моторин
April 19, 2023 at 3:33 am
so lame..
Mikey B
April 19, 2023 at 4:55 am
beautiful
Fresh Franchise
April 19, 2023 at 7:50 am
Beautiful African Dance History! ❤❤❤❤❤
Sammi Cerise
April 19, 2023 at 12:05 pm
Beautiful
Kitty-Mitty
April 19, 2023 at 3:27 pm
Divinely beautiful😍
speicaldark
April 19, 2023 at 4:13 pm
There should be a much longer version!
Jean Michel Henry
April 19, 2023 at 10:38 pm
SUPER
Towani Is Me
April 20, 2023 at 1:09 am
This was such a beautiful and innovative TED Talk 🥹
Chinyanta is such a refreshing storyteller and a great dancer. Someone should give her a docu series for real!
Tionge Sakala
April 20, 2023 at 2:38 am
Amazing!❤️🇿🇲
A.R.H.
April 20, 2023 at 11:31 am
Absolutely beautiful culture. Thank you for sharing.
French Armelinho
April 20, 2023 at 4:23 pm
So cool to watch. I went from watching your Instagram reels to you being on tedx. Bravo