THE EVOLUTION OF AFRICAN DANCE

[@simiremubalamaofeimu8166]

I love this and being a Afrikan yoga Dancer instructor this is a tool for me thank you for this wonderful work 💜💜🙏🏿🙏🏿

[@MrsCharltonsroom]

My 5th grade dance class really enjoyed this video! Thank you :)

[@Lavender-rz2px]

I’ve been searching for my dance history; this piece clarifies so much and had made me so proud.

[@cruzjc]

thanks so much for this, using this to study for my world dance history class ❤

[@eltigredesantajulia9009]

Wonderful! Mother Africa, the base of all our music! It’s powerful, truthful to the soul of the body, the heart best of our music! I know that in the Latino music, definitely the base, the best, the heart, and it will always be present in our music in general. When I took dance classes in college, African classes where my favorites! Powerful! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ Thank you African brothers! Peace!

[@miltonwalden2100]

Amazing directorial work...!!!

[@naleka]

indeed you said it: our primary goal is to use our talent to do justice to our Ancestors who fight to stay alive for us. May the highest blessing of our Ancestors and Jesus rest upon us!

[@franflynn6824]

What an amazing fount of knowledge is this documentary!! Congratulations to all the artists and professors that has spoken so well about Africa culture. I'm now feeling so grateful to all my ancestors for all the dance moviments that they created and that has shape my dance and my identity. Thank you! Obrigada! Axé!🙌🏽👊🏽🙏🏽

[@luusikateme]

Thank you for this!!!

[@mauramicheletti3950]

Sabar, Senegal,Is a very special and difficult dance!

[@dinanasser3283]

And all people know Michael Jackson is the greatest dancer and entertainer of all time , and he is black American. Man i love Africa and African people very much 🥰🥰

[@1FunkyMaya]

Bravo, such great work!!

[@evakovacs548]

Wonderful! Just wonderful!

[@afroeticsdancefit]

Excellence!!!

[@LGnLA]

9:54 an ENTIRE word...🗣 "everybody is trying to be, what I was told not to be" periodt TEACH!!!!💯💯💯💯💯💯

[@LGnLA]

Reminds me of, "From The Heart of Love" Glendale, CA w/Richard Lawson, Smokie Robinson, Titus Fotso... yassssss I was there!!!This is: Beautiful* Brilliant* Necessary* LEGACY bravo yall BRAVO!! EXCELLENCE defined!!What a KWANZAA treat, will be sharing this!!!!!💯💯💯💯🥰🥰🥰🥰

[@EcheTube]

So nostalgic 🔥

[@tlondonable]

Missing other WEST African countries, such as Badagary Nigeria which a ship loads were taken to Brazil. Also enslaved Africans were taken to Mexico, Central and other South America. My maternsl forefathers are Afro-Cuban. Visiting Lagos and Badagary Nigeria and saw culture, dance, music, food and instruments that the Yoruba used including the 5 pattern rhythm is used in Cuban culture.

[@siriuslyspeaking9720]

At 104:51 the speaker said that dance was important to her, that it is "community". Many people are seeing any association with others as a community, but I wonder if the widespread practice of this devalues the original idea of community. The real test of it, is to live side by side with others, everyday. I dare say, for most people that old sense of neighbor and neighborhood, doesn't exist in most communities anymore. People are so different from each other today, even within groups of people. One need only look at the numerous divisions within religions. There is a lot of romanticizing that has been going on, in the U.S.. The history of the country has been romanticized, and so has some of our history and culture. Hip-Hop sees itself as unique, when that is surely not the case. The only element of it that didn't already exist in some form or another, is likely scratching. Hip-Hop said it changed the world, in celebrating its 50th anniversary, but it didn't change the communities it came out of, and those like them. So much for not believing the hype. Technology has always been the greatest influence on humanity the 'Industrial Revolution' and now the 'digital revolution', have and are having the greatest impact on human beings, while it seems most of us are caught up in ourselves through the lens of digital media, and pop-culture, while the culture of values, which oversees our relationship with one another, is eroding. Are we thinking more like machines than humans, when we say we are "authentic, as opposed to sincere? Just something to think about. All this focus on race, is truly a rat race, in which it seems many don't know where they are headed. Most seem to not be looking back nor forward, with any sense of clarity. That may be why so many can speak of the need for a reset. Some even say a "great" one. What exactly would that equate to? When was any previous state of human existence ever adequate? That is especially true for us, since we have been in this country. Again, form my perspective, we need to start and very soon, thinking in terms of evolution towards the standards that already exist, but we have yet to live up to. I ask please consider promoting the idea of humanity given itself a peace=dividend. It is the best easiest way to defund anything, for the purpose of freeing-up funds, for direct life affirming needs.

[@Gessela]

After making it 25 minutes in, I very much appreciate the attempt but there are a bit too many inaccuracies while speaking in absolutes.

[@siriuslyspeaking9720]

The speaker at 27:57 spoke about tap dance being seen as part of "the revolution". It thus is ironic to me, that the title of this video speaks of the evolution of African dance. This word "revolution" might be right beneath the word "freedom", as the most overrated words in the English language. Everyone's existence is a state of degrees of interconnectedness and interdependency. Global warming and pandemics should convince anyone of this, who didn't already understand and appreciate it. Any act by any person or thing in the universe can have an impact on all on us. The word 'revolution', mean exactly what it suggest, they bring you back around to a state that previously existed. They require the same dependence on weapons, and often another form of authoritarian governance structure, to insure the changes gained, remain in place. Evolution is what we should be focused on. This is our ultimate struggle. We must catch up with the evolution of our intelligence, in our emotional, moral, and spiritual evolution. We lag far behind in these areas. We are thus like children, with powerful tools and dangerous weapons in our hands.