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[ Creativity ]
Making Your Own Groove: What Happens When Ballet and Hip-Hop Combine?
By Sam Burns
What happens when you take the soul of hip-hop and combine it with the grace of classical ballet? Here’s how a group of classically trained ballet dancers are turning the future of dance on its head. Meet Hiplet!
26 minutes
[ Thought Leaders ]
The World’s Oldest Dance Troupe Will Steal Your Heart!
By Sam Burns
The oldest hip hop dance troupe in the world has a few things to show us about what happens when we let ourselves live without limits. Artificial hips, memory loss, and all, we can feel like life every day is a great celebration!
5 minutes
[ Culture ]
Celebrating Culture by Getting Down with the Limbo Queen!
How low can you go? Many of us associate the limbo with a game played at children’s birthday parties, but do you know where it actually came from? Let’s uncover the history behind the limbo, and watch the world’s reigning limbo champion shimmy her way to the top by scooting down mind-blowingly low!
13 minutes
[ Creativity ]
Meet the Dancer Combining Sign Language & Hip Hop
Shaheem Sanchez lost his hearing as a child, but now as a professional dancer, teacher, and advocate he is on a mission to make ASL dance a movement. His work points to possibilities all around us, probably hiding in plain sight, if we can just eliminate our assumptions.
6 minutes
[ Culture ]
The Fascinating Story Behind Why We Dance!
By Sam Burns
We seem to be born to do it and it may even be a key to our success as a species! So why was it that dancing became engrained in the fabric of being human? This video clues us in on how dance has shaped human life throughout our evolution. And we can’t help but ask: could dance actually help us through difficult times now?
25 minutes
[ Thought Leaders ]
Building Futures One Plié at a Time
By Sam Burns
In a place where violence reigns, girls are finding refuge in a surprising way—and it’s all thanks to one amazing woman.
13 minutes
[ Art ]
Shadow Dancing Taking Us to New Worlds!
The dance troupe Pilobolus is known for their mind-bending work and their incredible experiments in shadow and performance will completely transform your sense of reality!
18 minutes
[ Creativity ]
What’s the Pointe (Shoe)?
By Sam Burns
Pointe shoes are the most important tool for a ballet dancer, second only to their body. So who makes them and how they are prepared before each use is crucial to their career. Let’s take a look at this fascinating process…
7 minutes
[ Creativity ]
When Dance Creates Opportunities
By Sam Burns
Hussein Smko grew up in war-torn Iraq, and he’s turned his experience into an opportunity. Through his performance, this dancer is not only telling his story, but making it possible for others to share theirs.
8 minutes
[ Dance ]
Your Dance Moves Say More About You Than You Think!
Whether your preferred move is the running man or the moonwalk, here’s the science to help you bust it better!
16 minutes
[ Art ]
When (Artistic) Worlds Collide
What happens when you take a graffiti artist and a painter and give them one day to create a mural together? (Spoiler: it’s definitely some sort of magic!)
8 minutes
[ Dance ]
How Dance is Changing the Lives of Patients with Parkinsons Disease!
Let us introduce you to Dance for PD, a remarkable organization changing the lives of patients with Parkinsons Disease with the power of dance!
7 minutes
[ Art ]
The Oldest Mime on Silent Communication Between Us
By Dr. Lynda
Silence can teach us a lot about ourselves and others. Here’s the world’s oldest mime, Richmond Shepard, at age 87, sharing his reflections on life and communication.
7 minutes
[ Art ]
Behind the Scene with Cirque du Soleil’s Superhumans
By Dr. Lynda
Meet the “superhumans” who perform the mind-bending, gravity-defying feats in the Cirque du Soleil productions. Behind the scenes, they are almost like the our friends and neighbors!
25 minutes
[ Culture ]
Hope and Wonder with WAFFLE NYC Subway Athletes
By Dr. Lynda
It’s Saturday around the world and we like to take you to places you may never visit. The NYC subway might not make your wish list, unless you knew about a hidden gem down there!
19 minutes
[ Art ]
The JUSTICE LEAGUE of Dance: Superheroes of Movement
By Dr. Lynda
Many people might say they are not sports fans, or superhero buffs, or followers of dance. But today we point you to a group that combines all three in a jaw-dropping way!
5 minutes
[ Dance ]
Dancing with Strangers, Finding Threads of Connection
What happens when you take strangers and friends and convince them to dance with you across the US and Canada? It certainly is a great recipe for a viral video that proves it’s still an amazing world!
6 minutes
[ Art ]
How Dance is Informing Wheelchair Technology
Check out the Rolling Dance Chair, an incredible example of how innovation can happen when we think outside of the box about possibility!
12 minutes
[ Creativity ]
Dance that Defies Gravity!
What happens you take dance, flip it sideways, and defy gravity on the side of a building? Check out BANDALOOP a dance troupe that is spreading awe and wonder with a new kind of dance!
14 minutes
[ Art ]
When It All Comes Together in a Musical Artist
By Dr. Lynda
Here’s what happens when musical genius weaves the fabric of many genres together in a compelling tapestry. Meet Angelique Kidjo!
9 minutes
[ Business ]
When No Is Not an Answer
By Dr. Lynda
What if you know your calling, and in the face of overwhelming rejection, you decide that failure is not an option. Here’s what can happen…
6 minutes
[ Art ]
Perfecting the Hardest Move in Ballet
Not a “dance” person? How about learning to appreciate the beauty of ballet through physics, athleticism and artistry? Let’s tackle the hardest move in ballet from a new angle!
12 minutes
[ Books ]
The Project Expands: Where the Heck is Matt?
By Dr. Lynda
Matt Harding has a unique job and a vision: he shows up somewhere, starts dancing, and sees what happens. He’s been spreading joy for almost a decade now! Want a smile? Take a look…
7 minutes
[ Art ]
The Music of the City Played on The Human Harp
Suspension bridges are some of our largest man-made instruments. They carry the weight and music of cities in their cables, and the artist Di Mainstone wants us to hear that music using the Human Harp.
8 minutes
[ Animals ]
Do You Dance Like A Dinosaur?
While you may have your own unique moves on the dance floor, it turns out dinosaurs may have also used dance to woo their mates! Here are how the incredible mating displays of birds are helping us to unlock secrets of dinosaur behavior!
5 minutes
[ Dance ]
Dancin Power
Can dance change lives? The organization Dancin Power proves that it can, and is helping to transform the lives of chronically ill children. Here are some of their incredible and uplifting stories!
8 minutes
[ Creativity ]
Dancers from Movie History Meet Uptown Funk
By Dr. Lynda
The best kind of creativity crosses all the generations. You might have seen one of these floating around the web, but don’t miss this particular example. It’s is a wonder!
23 minutes
[ Art ]
Pilobolus’ “Symbiosis,” A New World of Dance
By Dr. Lynda
Today on EWC, join us in witnessing a dance/art spectacle like nothing you’ve ever seen: a group named Pilobolus’ intriguing performance “Symbiosis.” It will bring most of us to our edges of understanding.
18 minutes
[ Art ]
Subway Acrobats and Street Dancers
By Dr. Lynda
There’s not enough fun in the world. Maybe these guys are on the leading edge of bringing it back!
