Finally! Ballet Liberated From European Racist Colonialism
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In the past we ve talked about the unbearable whiteness of ballet and how non-whites are talking about the need to decolonize ballet to liberate it from white supremacy. So let s see what that looks like in action.
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in the past we've talked about the unbearable whiteness of ballet and how non-whites are
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talking about the need to decolonize ballet to liberate it from white supremacy so let's
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see what that looks like in action bring it bring it bring it do you see what it said that this is
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a multicultural dance uh what was it a dance location in chicago run by some gay black guy
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it's just a hodgepodge of a bunch of crap in ballet shoes first of all you're culturally
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appropriating our ballet bar our leotards our shoes and then you just muck it up by adding in all this
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other crap it just looks horrible it's embarrassing it's uh it's twerking on your toes it's like uh
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ass shaking with like while walking on your toe it's the only thing i can see is that they're
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walking on their toes and doing these moves on their toes but it's all jerky and erratic and weird
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look at i have a couple of more videos of course it's boss feed right to push this uh look at a
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couple of other ones here thank god she's not skinny that's a white beauty idea you know that's right
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can't have that and she's got a mask on yep oh well it just looks horrible
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it's none of this is ballet ballet is graceful and beautiful and light on the toes and dancing
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like feathers in the air well it's just they don't even actually call it ballet they call it
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hip play meaning they combined hip-hop and ballet it's absolutely horrible it's so cringe this is
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a guy here homer bryant homer hans bryant yeah he really looks like a homer hans and he's the one
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who uploaded this first right in the bus feed news picked it up but oh my god it's going viral on
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facebook here's a couple of more check this because people are laughing at it i think they love it it's
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so you know they're so obsessed about taking out white uh attributes your p and ideals out of
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things and decolonizing shit and so you can basically just do whatever you want to and people
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like i this is amazing as long as there's no skinny white girl in a pink tutu dancing on her toes how
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you should be dancing ballet then it's cool right why even call it ballerinas he's saying hip lay
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ballerinas hip hip lay cultural appropriation there's some more here enjoy
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it's one of the ugliest body movements i think i've ever seen yeah it's absolutely hideous
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and of course they're all black oh very multicultural right here's uh one more here
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it's the same thing with the legs and stuff that's all they do this is all they're doing
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and the music and that's always what it ends up being a shaking booty in your face like that's
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that's that's where it ends always when they decolonize
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it's stupid they're just i'm not even sure what all they're doing is on their toes
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and just shaking their hips like doing a hip-hop dance in ballet shoes is it hip-hop dance this
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year i don't know a little bit yeah it's like this dumb pop and lock kind of uh routine that you see
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that's been inflicting us in the 2000s and beyond it's like some weird yeah it's broadway mixed with
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ballet and people cabaret and tap dance and hip-hop and it's just hideous so basically all you have
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to do is europeans set the the kind of the rules the the the parameters the the guidelines and stuff
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and then all they have to do is just shit all over that and then you're being celebrated right
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and again back to the guy here i do want to show a little bit this is just hideous i mean
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uh but he actually he was one several like dance uh uh dance leader of the year and stuff like that
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look at that the ballet disruptor on ted ted talks listen just a little bit to this here this is people
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aren't going to be buying tickets to go watch this they're still going to be watching now they are just
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to make a point they will do you really get it when it comes to positive change for me it's about
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dance education education at play it's about changing kids brainwaves day after day it's where
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the spiritual mental and emotional disciplines come together from the outside in hello i'm homer brian
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what does that even mean founder and artistic director of the chicago dance center and my talk
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today will be about hip play the ballet disruptor i have to take you back to 1990 i was in british
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columbia canada and i was teaching some master classes and i went to a rap concert that evening
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and i stayed for about 45 minutes i realized every child in that audience knew the words to the rap songs
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and they knew all the profanity them that means it all it has to be good profanity oh that's awesome
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the kids are learning all the shit that is just amazing and well you get the point but you know
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they don't learn profanity from classical beautiful european music do they i mean that's actually going
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to change their brainwaves you know we know how classical music can be a positive force right
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but now they're just applying hip-hop music with the ballet shoes and we're changing their brainwaves
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we're culture jamming is not what it's all about right again european set the standard and then just
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shit on that disrupt all of that and then you're like here we go gold medals for all of you all
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participants all right anyways i saw this other clip too by the while we're on the dance uh issues
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right over to ireland which is what what's that called again rock a river dance right it's one of
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the famous ones so here's a uh very very irish uh instructor here on the river dance so check this
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it's a type of irish dance that was done years ago when people were cleaning their houses with
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their brothers i should do that at home that's what i do so for example there is a step that we do like
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this wow that's like magic then we can go faster we're not doing that are we we will be doing that
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so it is hard to do but it's really fun so let's see what it says down below there it has its roots
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in ancient celtic and druidic cultures right well she definitely looks druidic to me yeah definitely
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that's uh so the druids look then we're all uh all black as it were all right uh anyway i have to do
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this to you i'm sorry but you have to find you have to see what happened at glastonbury in the uk
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speaking about uh skanky dances uh okay i'll just play it again this is like kids are going to these
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things uh there's no again the people that are upset that there's someone is breastfeeding in a
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restaurant uh are perfectly fine with shit like this check it out
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kick you out here's the time let's wipe your face
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lick it i'll give your all till you out of breath
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do you hear the lyrics uh oh my god i didn't hear the lyrics till now i just saw the
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yep there we go for this some now something for the kids
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this is what it is blacks shaking their ass on their stage talking about like
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having sex right in front of everybody and what is this scotland
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what's the uh std levels again we'll get to that
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ghetto skank culture it's just a big black ass in your face at all times
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idiocracy but if it was a black ass it would have been that would have been it basically right
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but no there's no wider condemnation there's no like moral i mean there should be moral panic around this
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that's like they use that term to kind of shit on that or it will come down oh look at all these people are afraid of it but like
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what is that the porn pornographication if that's a word of like of music and of our culture well it's it's down to shit like this
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oh megan the stallion i think i've heard of uh that before actually
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that's the supposed thing but you look at all the young girls here