The Ecstasy of Eskista, an Ancient Ethiopian Dance | Melaku Belay | TED

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[@stevenjoshoa5394]

It's nice to see my culture represented on a wonderful stage

[@elfineshworku5327]

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.🍀🍀

[@taz09216]

Music can evolve and take new forms.

[@fusionsales3243]

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...

[@andycordy5190]

What a beautiful language!

[@shaunpatryck]

Why is it beautiful?

[@caresword]

@@shaunpatryck very smooth to the ear

[@taz09216]

@@shaunpatryck it's beautiful to the native speaker.

[@querty2024]

@@shaunpatryck why not?

[@querty2024]

@@taz09216 I’m not a native speaker, but I think it’s fascinating.

[@querty2024]

What a nice friendly guy the dancer was. All you detractors could really learn from him.

[@THESURAFELB]

This man is modest and is the example of a typical master that is geuine in and out 👏👏🙏

[@abs7996]

This guy is doing great job..

[@kamlakbmbo]

Congrats TED : ) for haveing melaku

[@fanaticforager6610]

I’ve seen this form of dancing in the latter part of a Wedding Celebration 🎊 🍾 🎵 14:49

[@AbebeAbel746]

Amazingly proud of you brother.

[@SibylleLeon]

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.

[@charlottewhite1277]

They don't.

[@querty2024]

@@charlottewhite1277 just enjoy the video already 🙄 smh

[@alexiswilliamsinc]

@@querty2024 😅 I mean, she’s not lying, though… Back to the video: I had completely forgotten until I saw this my experience decades ago of dancing at an Ethiopian wedding reception for one of my best friend’s relatives. I know I looked as silly as the folks in the audience but I don’t feel sorry for them because it really did give me a euphoria that wasn’t just from the honey wine. 😊 I was grateful to be made to feel a part of the family. 💌💌💌

[@querty2024]

@@alexiswilliamsinc yes- she’s not lying…but let’s enjoy the video, the dancing, the positivity of it… if you want to talk politics or sociology, go to a different forum and debate all you want…(them, not you) I am glad to find positivity in you, your sharing of your experience, and for you to have felt a sense of belonging- to have felt like you were part of the family… I wish I felt the same about belonging in a niche… keep on spreading your love and positivity- we need more of that in this world. I hope I’m not spreading too much negativity myself. 🙄☹️Thanks so much for sharing your experience. It’s much appreciated 💛

[@weshela-in-chief]

I think you misunderstood what he said. The government is gentrifying a neighborhood not the ancient traditions itself

[@waffiki]

Very graceful and unique 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

[@reydagi9615]

What an amazing ethiopian dancer wow wow

[@aleygoitom8369]

It looks like dancing without a beat

[@bereketahm8939]

My Ethiopians where are you

[@fredericbaue]

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.

[@weshela-in-chief]

Who made you an expert?

[@bitwodeddemissie7955]

​@@weshela-in-chieftell me about it.😂 he is out here trying to explain to me about my culture.

[@aleygoitom8369]

I don't understand Why he used untraditional ( maybe western music) to dance traditional Ethiopian dance.

[@triple_gem_shining]

Original pop locking

[@yahyaabdo7724]

This is one of Ethiopian traditional dance.

[@yulang-i3e]

댓글 보고, 유친 맺었어요 알림,구독,조아요 꾸욱 누르고 갑니다

[@taz09216]

Great son of ethiopia

[@ideashare8887]

Wow amazimg

[@SuitedforGaming]

great talk, and bravo on your journey and success. But experimenting with Eskista and the jazz music did not work well at all. Hopefully on the next opportunity you can show the world Eskista danced to pure Ethiopian music.

[@zewdugizaw4065]

Cool 😍

[@coffeerelax3455]

💚💛❤

[@hanidbashi8709]

Yoo I love eskests, but it's not meant to be danced with Jazz, the dance has it's own tones and melodies, you don't just dance it with any sound, this music took away the beauty of the dance, they just don't match.

[@triple_gem_shining]

VIBIN

[@leveljoe]

Shoes in the dryer?

[@ሰሎሞን]

ጥሩ ነዉ

[@BrookeMichaela1]

This is great but maybe too traditional music from Ethiopia would have better

[@mocassin92]

this is like napoleon dynamite but darker

[@Divayser]

Bruh.

[@caresword]

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

[@NeoFighterX]

Kendrick Lamar deffo Ethiopian.

[@wossenalemeye6331]

Mjj

[@magnoliakouakou8744]

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

[@lanouvelleecole7029]

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.

[@nadembegalaurentcavaliers7061]

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!

[@hhhh-bp8zc]

TERRIFIC!!!!

[@macpj12j]

dude is not doing real escesta wtf was that . we all know ethiopia is great but dude wasnt worth it .

[@charlottewhite1277]

Horse saddles n used cell phones.... 😂

[@weshela-in-chief]

It's the biggest marketplace in the world. You can find anything from maternity clothes to coffins

[@Myopnion123]

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

[@FendikaCulturalCenter1]

He is the owner of Fendika ❤

[@samanthaoconnor1982]

So.... You think you can dance eya??

[@tigray460]

This is not ancient Ethiopian dance This is just Amhara Traditional dance!!

[@hikkiema204]

Are you seriously bringing this here 😐

[@THESURAFELB]

And there is no such thing as Welkait Tigray...it is also Amhara🔔

[@tigray460]

@@THESURAFELB le አዲ ረመፀ ንገራት እሱን

[@THESURAFELB]

@@tigray460 ante degmo le Adi qulqwal nigerat 👏

[@nzorogregoirenguessan9906]

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…"

[@chaveliekipre5140]

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!].

[@estherkacou1962]

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]

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