By mastering the Eskista, an ancient Ethiopian dance, TED Fellow Melaku Belay survived a childhood on the streets and became a voice for his country. He shares how traditional dances can connect the wisdom of the past to the energy of the future — and, after the talk, delivers a thrilling performance of Eskista accompanied by a free-jazz ensemble. (In Amharic with consecutive English translation by filmmaker Mehret Mandefro)
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KARYTTAH - Rock Band
January 30, 2023 at 12:03 pm
– -> 🤔 Maybe We’re The 1st Spiritist* Pop-Metal Or Rock Band In This World…
-> But Don’t Pay Much Attention To Our Neanderthal English, HaHa ❤
*NOTE:
-> Spiritist is who professes Spiritism, the Gospel continuation
It has began with the books by Allan Kardec and continued in the books by Francisco C. Xavier, the greatest and more important medium/prophet of spirits of the last centuries…
Namulema Zulaika
January 30, 2023 at 12:06 pm
If you hire people just because they can do a job,they will work for your money
But if you hire people who believe what you believe,they will work for you with blood and sweat and tears.
Sibylle Leon
January 30, 2023 at 12:10 pm
You had me at “ecstasy” and “dance”. Amazing ❤
I hope the governments will come to realise how important it is to preserve the people’s source of self, their ancient culture and traditions.
charlotte white
January 30, 2023 at 3:45 pm
They don’t.
Lisa A.
January 31, 2023 at 1:00 am
@charlotte white just enjoy the video already 🙄 smh
Yahya Abdo
January 30, 2023 at 12:11 pm
This is one of Ethiopian traditional dance.
yulang korea
January 30, 2023 at 12:13 pm
댓글 보고,
유친 맺었어요
알림,구독,조아요
꾸욱 누르고 갑니다
Zewdu Gizaw
January 30, 2023 at 12:28 pm
Cool 😍
NeoFighterX
January 30, 2023 at 12:37 pm
Kendrick Lamar deffo Ethiopian.
Divayser
January 30, 2023 at 12:44 pm
Bruh.
abs
January 30, 2023 at 1:03 pm
This guy is doing great job..
FANATIC FORAGER
January 30, 2023 at 1:11 pm
I’ve seen this form of dancing in the latter part of a Wedding Celebration 🎊 🍾 🎵 14:49
Andy Cordy
January 30, 2023 at 1:37 pm
What a beautiful language!
Shaun Riley
January 30, 2023 at 2:48 pm
Why is it beautiful?
Sword of life
January 30, 2023 at 6:28 pm
@Shaun Riley very smooth to the ear
Sb
January 31, 2023 at 12:18 am
@Shaun Riley it’s beautiful to the native speaker.
Lisa A.
January 31, 2023 at 12:53 am
@Shaun Riley why not?
Lisa A.
January 31, 2023 at 12:55 am
@Sb I’m not a native speaker, but I think it’s fascinating.
Vinicius Mateus
January 30, 2023 at 1:47 pm
I don’t care about this, just came here to say this man’s got the drip
Lisa A.
January 31, 2023 at 1:05 am
@Vinicius Mateus what’s “the drip?” Is it something cool? Care to share? No? Then get a life. I don’t care if it’s positive or negative. Just curious.
Sb
January 30, 2023 at 1:51 pm
Great son of ethiopia
Momma Bear
January 30, 2023 at 2:22 pm
So….
You think you can dance eya??
Lisa A.
January 30, 2023 at 2:38 pm
What a nice friendly guy the dancer was. All you detractors could really learn from him.
hhhh
January 30, 2023 at 3:09 pm
TERRIFIC!!!!
Rick Baue
January 30, 2023 at 3:13 pm
This is an interesting fusion of modern bepop style jazz with west African roots blended with an improvisation of traditional east African movement.
I think what’s important is although the sound and movement are not strictly traditional, the feeling is preserved. All blockers are removed and the body is allowed to move unrestricted by fear or judgement, which we can see is highly contagious as expressed by the enthusiastic participation of audience members.
Te_le_grqm me @ted023
January 30, 2023 at 11:50 pm
Inbox me 📥📥👆
-:
January 31, 2023 at 5:07 am
Who made you an expert?
mudbutt23
January 30, 2023 at 3:14 pm
That song he dances to sounds like Dance of Eternity by Dream Theater.
charlotte white
January 30, 2023 at 3:46 pm
Horse saddles n used cell phones…. 😂
Lisa A.
January 31, 2023 at 12:31 am
What’s so funny about it? Are you talking about yourself? Thought so! 😄
-:
January 31, 2023 at 5:12 am
It’s the biggest marketplace in the world. You can find anything from maternity clothes to coffins
Bereket Ahm
January 30, 2023 at 4:04 pm
My Ethiopians where are you
Te_le_grqm me @ted023
January 30, 2023 at 11:47 pm
🤍🤍ᴡʀɪᴛᴇ🤍🤍ᴍᴇ🤍🤍1👆👆👆
level Joe
January 30, 2023 at 4:21 pm
Shoes in the dryer?
Fusion Sales
January 30, 2023 at 4:55 pm
Ancienity is a profound study of ancestral predominance.. i appreciate and respect Ethiopia as one among pre historical places on this earth… I am speaking from India…
BlackberryRidge
January 30, 2023 at 5:13 pm
Lmfao
Te_le_grqm me @ted023
January 30, 2023 at 11:46 pm
🤍🤍ᴡʀɪᴛᴇ🤍🤍ᴍᴇ🤍🤍👆👆👆
Sword of life
January 30, 2023 at 6:30 pm
Have to be honest it was to cring for me. He should have had other dancers on stage to sing with, eskista is not meant to be performed solo
Te_le_grqm me @ted023
January 30, 2023 at 11:45 pm
telegram🤍🤍me🤍🤍👆👆👆
M
January 30, 2023 at 7:56 pm
Original pop locking
M
January 30, 2023 at 7:57 pm
VIBIN
Te_le_grqm me @ted023
January 30, 2023 at 11:39 pm
Telegram me 👆👆👆
Shake_N_Bake
January 31, 2023 at 5:48 am
this is like napoleon dynamite but darker
REYDAGI
January 31, 2023 at 8:14 am
What an amazing ethiopian dancer wow wow
Logical Reasoning
January 31, 2023 at 9:34 am
That’s a great way to disgrace the Ethiopian eskesta,that was horrible,why can’t he present the eskista like fendika does on Friday nights or any Ethiopian cultural house
Elfinesh Worku
January 31, 2023 at 10:38 am
I wish he danced the traditional dance with the traditional music. That way, the music and dance will blend together and he will go to ecstasy. That will blend with his personality and traditional clothing.
Now it is a mixture of two worlds. I miss the authenticity. Otherwise, I admire him for his guts and for his success. I admire him for his patience and endurance. Good luck my friend.🍀🍀
waffiki
January 31, 2023 at 4:01 pm
Very graceful and unique 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
MAC
January 31, 2023 at 4:24 pm
dude is not doing real escesta wtf was that . we all know ethiopia is great but dude wasnt worth it .
Nadembega Laurent cavaliers
February 1, 2023 at 8:44 am
17 But the Holy Angels and the elect will never doubt the omniscience and infallibility of God. Job did not doubt God and through the various persecutions of the Church, 68 million Christians perished before the God of Elijah. The lions tore them before the God of Meshach, Shadrach and Abed-Nego but those ones did not doubt the infallibility of God. Even in front of the fall of man in the Garden of Eden, the sons of God and the Angels of God never doubted the infallibility of God. [Ed: The congregation says, “Amen”].
18 In 1 Samuel 2:30, before the behaviour of the sons of Eli, God says, “I said indeed, Thy house and the house of thy father should walk before me for ever. But now Jehovah saith, Be it far from Me; for them that honour Me I will honour, and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed.” Now, didn’t God, by making the promise, know that they would behave that way? You see? But for us, that will never affect the infallibility of God. And thus will the position of the elect and of the Holy Angels be forever because the infallibility is not a merit but a seal. And that is incomparable with the immunity of a Member of Parliament. Amen!
Esther kacou
February 1, 2023 at 8:57 am
16 Well, I come to the instructions. There are several countries which are on the list of the countries where the Message is already present. But no matter the country where you are, when you discover this Message, you have the responsibility and the obligation before God, according to Ezekiel 33, to make this Message known around you. Your relatives must know this Message; your acquaintances must know this Message; everybody must know this Message. Even if they have to reject you, but they must know this Message. [Ed: the congregation say, “Amen!”].
17 With wisdom and softness, you must make this Message known all around you. You are not responsible of people’s reactions but you are responsible of making them hear that. Even if you are a woman, you have a responsibility. Like Mary of Magdala, Elizabeth, Susanna and the women who were around the Lord Jesus Christ, you have the Words of the eternal Life for your generation in your hands and you must do so that everyone hears it around you. You sisters, you can testify and explain the Message around you. You should know that all the capacity that God has given you, it is for Salvation.
18 If you are rich, it is for Salvation. Everything will perish on the earth but what you have done for the Heaven will never perish. [Ed: The congregation says: “Amen!”]. Build buildings, buy beautiful cars but all this is only madness before God. But what matters, it is what you did for the elect to be saved in your generation. [Ed: The congregation says: “Amen!”]. You must read and listen to every preaching and according to the faith of the one in front of you, you know which preaching to give him and God will look after the rest. You are not responsible of his reaction, he is not obliged to believe but you have the obligation to let him discover this Truth. And at the judgment, he will not say he did not hear the name of Prophet Kacou Philippe on earth. And he that has ears to hear, let him hear. [Kc.15v1] [Kc.16v1-3] [Kc.115v1]
Kablan Elie Anani
February 1, 2023 at 2:49 pm
Kacou 16:1
Know that everything we will do here on earth will perish here and will not come in remembrance before God. Only the actions that come into the line of Salvation will subsist until the eternity because it is the wedding garment according to Revelation 19:7-8. That is what we have been called to. [Ed: Thecongregationsays, “Amen!”].
Chavelie Kipre
February 1, 2023 at 6:57 pm
25 If it pleased God to arouse an African, it is with our African currency that God will fulfill Matthew 25:6 and Elisha and his sons and the sons of the prophets will rise to fulfill the vision. [Ed: The congregation says, Amen!]. Whatever they have, the children of God will be anxious about doing for God an action above everything they have done on the earth. That is why a mere sister gave money to cover all the expenses of the second edition of this book. [Ed: The congregation says, Amen!].
Kobenanemile Kossonou
February 1, 2023 at 9:28 pm
235 All those who have read or listened to this Message of Matthew 25:6 without seeing errors have experienced healing, deliverance and the eternal graces of God. “O Lord God Almighty, Supreme God, You the Angel and the Lamb, in your name Jesus Christ and in virtue of the mandate that You gave me on April 24, 1993, I take authority over all the power of darkness. And at this very moment, I cast out all diseases and all demons of masturbation, alcohol, cigarettes or homosexuality from the lives of all those who are reading or listening to this Message and who believe that it comes from You. Give them the Holy Spirit and may their lives no longer be the same until they reach your paradise. Amen!”Go and delete everything that is impure from your telephones, computers or photo albums and be free forever.
LA NOUVELLE ÉCOLE
February 1, 2023 at 10:48 pm
6 Dieu créa l’homme esprit comme Lui-même est Esprit. Il créa l’homme avec un corps comme Lui-même allait se manifester dans un corps sur la terre. Il tira Ève de la côte d’Adam car sur la croix, l’Église allait être tirée de son côté. Vous voyez? Si les anges sont à l’image de l’homme, alors le sang du Seigneur Jésus-Christ rachèterait des démons! Mais cela n’est pas possible.
magnolia Kouakou
February 1, 2023 at 11:21 pm
9 The Hebrew word for prophet is nabi and this word means: “spokesman” not miracles-bearer or anointing-bearer but spokesman. You see? The prophet messenger is the attribute and the manifestation of the Word of God for his generation. [Kc.60v24]
Prophet kacou Philippe
N'zoro Grégoire N'guessan
February 1, 2023 at 11:40 pm
8 Now notice that the devil is not wise! We know that the Bible says nowhere that an African cannot be a prophet messenger and if God has to say it, He will say it by a prophet messenger because the Word comes to the prophet. If God has to say another thing that the Bible does not say, and as worth as that doctrine, He will say it by a prophet messenger. Yet David, the Branhamist pastor who preaches this doctrine, is an African and as a Branhamist, he knows that the Word of God comes first to the prophet! … [Ed: The congregation says, “Amen!”]. And none of all these ones never sought to meet me to show me that I am not a prophet or that I have preached a false doctrine. [Ed: The congregation says, “Amen!”].
9 And beside all that, we must count the reaction of Switzerland by the voice of Alexis Barilier and Ewald Frank. According to them, the midnight Cry is emitted by the Lord through several servants of God. This is what Alexis Barilier said, “… That is why it is sure that if somebody listens to what the spirit is saying to the church today, he will understand and know that Jehovah makes very precisely a Cry heard which is a call to awake, call that is launched through several servants inspired of God: be it our brother Frank or others. This new book by our brother M’bra Parfait that we are publishing now is also part of the cry that is made sound by our Lord at midnight…”