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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.

How art shapes conversation

13 talks • 1h 52m

Powerful art makes people talk. These TED Talks bring context and nuanced perspectives to subjects surrounding history, race, socioeconomics and more.

Talks about Dance

Camille A. Brown

"New Second Line"

Posted Oct 2018

Sunni Patterson

"Wild Women"

Posted Aug 2018

Yelle

"Interpassion" / "Ba$$in"

Posted Aug 2018

Qudus Onikeku and The QTribe

"RainMakers"

Posted Apr 2018

Marc Bamuthi Joseph

What soccer can teach us about freedom

Posted Mar 2018

Huang Yi & KUKA

A human-robot dance duet

Posted Oct 2017

Prumsodun Ok

The magic of Khmer classical dance

Posted Oct 2017

Jon Boogz and Lil Buck

A dance to honor Mother Earth

Posted Aug 2017

Shah Rukh Khan

Thoughts on humanity, fame and love

Posted May 2017

Trevor Copp and Jeff Fox

Ballroom dance that breaks gender roles

Posted Oct 2016

Camille A. Brown

A visual history of social dance in 25 moves

Posted Sep 2016

Bill T. Jones

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

Posted May 2015

Aakash Odedra

A dance in a hurricane of paper, wind and light

Posted Dec 2014

TED staff

It's TED, the Musical

Posted Apr 2014

Hugh Herr

The new bionics that let us run, climb and dance

Posted Mar 2014

Hetain Patel

Who am I? Think again

Posted Oct 2013

See all 32 talks on Dance

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)

How one dancer is bringing tap dance back. Think about tap dance and what comes to mind? Perhaps the virtuosity, precision and glamour of Hollywood film stars like Fred Astaire ...

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 ...