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Dance

A collection of TED Talks (and more) on the topic of dance.

Video playlists about Dance

Stunning performances that'll make you want to dance

7 talks • 1h 32m

Take a front row seat and watch these spectacular dance performances.

Talks about Dance

7:22

Yelle

"Interpassion" / "Ba$$in"

Posted Aug 2018

4:28

Qudus Onikeku and The QTribe

"RainMakers"

Posted Apr 2018

5:41

Marc Bamuthi Joseph

What soccer can teach us about freedom

Posted Mar 2018

4:43

Huang Yi & KUKA

A human-robot dance duet

Posted Oct 2017

10:38

Prumsodun Ok

The magic of Khmer classical dance

Posted Oct 2017

9:35

Jon Boogz and Lil Buck

A dance to honor Mother Earth

Posted Aug 2017

17:51

Shah Rukh Khan

Thoughts on humanity, fame and love

Posted May 2017

15:33

Trevor Copp and Jeff Fox

Ballroom dance that breaks gender roles

Posted Oct 2016

4:36

Camille A. Brown

A visual history of social dance in 25 moves

Posted Sep 2016

6:26

Bill T. Jones

The dancer, the singer, the cellist ... and a moment of creative magic

Posted May 2015

9:50

Aakash Odedra

A dance in a hurricane of paper, wind and light

Posted Dec 2014

4:37

TED staff

It's TED, the Musical

Posted Apr 2014

19:00

Hugh Herr

The new bionics that let us run, climb and dance

Posted Mar 2014

9:06

Hetain Patel

Who am I? Think again

Posted Oct 2013

10:28

BLACK

My journey to yo-yo mastery

Posted Apr 2013

8:48

Angela Patton

A father-daughter dance ... in prison

Posted Jan 2013

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Exclusive articles about Dance

Why dance is just as important as math in school

Dance — and physical activity — should have the same status in schools as math, science and language. Psst: it may even help raise test scores, says Sir Ken Robinson. For severa...

A brief history of tap dance (and why it’s still a great art form)

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Music makes me lose control

The photo above is Mark Ronson on a Thursday night at TED, in the midst of teaching a four-hour seminar in pop music history. Working backward and forward in time, he proved to ...