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17:05

Judith Jamison and members of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater

Revelations from a lifetime of dance

Posted Oct 2019

3:09

Bruno Maisonnier

Dance, tiny robots!

Posted Feb 2013

13:45

Pilobolus

A dance of "Symbiosis"

Posted Feb 2007

16:07

Ananda Shankar Jayant

Fighting cancer with dance

Posted Jun 2010

15:33

Trevor Copp and Jeff Fox

Ballroom dance that breaks gender roles

Posted Oct 2016

8:55

Amelia Laytham

Rediscovering heritage through dance

Posted Oct 2016

15:18

Wayne McGregor

A choreographer's creative process in real time

Posted Sep 2012

8:16

Crush Club

"My Man" / "Bohanna" / "We Dance"

Posted Mar 2019

4:43

Huang Yi & KUKA

A human-robot dance duet

Posted Oct 2017

16:52

Mallika Sarabhai

Dance to change the world

Posted Nov 2009

10:47

Yami Joshi

How dance helps me deal with stress

Posted Nov 2015

9:35

Jon Boogz and Lil Buck

A dance to honor Mother Earth

Posted Aug 2017

7:40

WOLF

A marriage of opposites: Krump meets Mozart

Posted Dec 2017

9:50

Aakash Odedra

A dance in a hurricane of paper, wind and light

Posted Dec 2014

2:54

Shadé Zahrai and Aric Yegudkin

The rhythmic beauty of collaboration

Posted Feb 2018

16:48

The LXD

In the Internet age, dance evolves ...

Posted Mar 2010

17:08

Marcus Byrne

The dance of the dung beetle

Posted Dec 2012

8:48

Angela Patton

A father-daughter dance ... in prison

Posted Jan 2013

11:17

John Bohannon

Dance vs. powerpoint, a modest proposal

Posted Nov 2011

10:38

Prumsodun Ok

The magic of Khmer classical dance

Posted Oct 2017

8:00

B.E.A.T. NYC

B.E.A.T. NYC performs at TED@StateStreet

Posted Nov 2015

5:02

Andrew Nemr

The sounds and sights of tap dance

Posted Oct 2019

4:36

Camille A. Brown

A visual history of social dance in 25 moves

Posted Sep 2016

12:22

Quixotic Fusion

Dancing with light

Posted Jun 2012

4:28

Qudus Onikeku and The QTribe

"RainMakers"

Posted Apr 2018

19:00

Hugh Herr

The new bionics that let us run, climb and dance

Posted Mar 2014

13:26

Ronald Murray

The language of ballroom culture

Posted Jan 2019

3:32

Sofi Tukker

"Awoo"

Posted Jun 2017

4:36

Sunni Patterson

"Wild Women"

Posted Aug 2018

3:32

Kenichi Ebina

My magic moves

Posted Oct 2007

9:06

Hetain Patel

Who am I? Think again

Posted Oct 2013

16:30

Nalini Nadkarni

Conserving the canopy

Posted Mar 2009

10:28

BLACK

My journey to yo-yo mastery

Posted Apr 2013

4:45

Edwin Meyer

Can you solve the logician's rave riddle?

Posted Feb 2021

4:00

Amanda Mattes

Kabuki: The people's dramatic art

Posted Sep 2013

12:44

Ben Cameron

Why the live arts matter

Posted Sep 2010