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How a Viral Choreographer Makes His Moves | Sean Bankhead | TED
How a Viral Choreographer Makes His Moves | Sean Bankhead | TED
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(Music: Victoria Monét "On My Mama")
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(Music ends)
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(Cheers and applause)
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Helen Walters: OK, alright.
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You guys, we can't let him go without asking him some questions,
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which is really unkind, given all of the dancing,
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but here you are.
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There's a microphone, my friend.
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Sean Bankhead: Thank you.
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Hi.
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HW: Hi, Sean.
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SB: How are you?
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HW: I've never felt so cool adjacent.
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(Laughter)
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SB: Thank you for having me, this is incredible.
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HW: Come in the light.
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(Cheers)
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SB: Let me wipe my sweat.
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HW: That was ridiculous and amazing.
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And a song by Victoria Monét.
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Can you tell us about that choreography?
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SB: Woo! I'm going to catch my breath.
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Thank you.
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So myself and Victoria knew that we wanted to pay homage
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to so many different things that have inspired us in pop culture:
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HBCU culture, Black culture, college culture,
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skate culture, even meme culture
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and things that you see on Twitter
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that are just really funny and memorable.
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And we decided to make a kind of a mixing pot of a lot of different,
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really cool things that have inspired us.
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And that’s how “On My Mama” came about.
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(Cheers)
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HW: So would you say that that is a driving force in your work in general,
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is trying to connect choreography to the current moment?
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SB: One million percent.
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I am standing here today
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because of all the incredible choreographers and artists
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that inspired me, back from Missy Elliott,
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Janet Jackson, Michael Jackson,
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Aaliyah, Usher.
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And watching their music videos
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gave me the tools and the inspiration
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to try to keep carrying the torch of what's hot, what's new,
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and making sure that dance and choreography
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is still very prevalent in pop culture.
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HW: So we should be clear, that video went super bonkers online.
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So why do you think that some dance videos go viral?
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SB: There's a couple things.
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One, I think luck or God, thank you.
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Still making things that are hot.
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One thing, I think,
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I always put 1,000 percent of my heart
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and time and energy into anything I create.
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So if I'm stepping into a project, I want to kill it.
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I want to put 1,000 percent of myself into the project.
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And people can feel heart, they can feel passion.
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And I think it translates through the screen.
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And I think another thing is,
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oddly enough, the song is called "On My Mama,"
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and I always love having at least one move or one groove
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that my mama can do, in a video.
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(Laughter)
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But I think it allows dancers and non-dancers alike to feel like,
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"Oh, I like that move.
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I can do that whenever the song comes on."
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And I think it just translates.
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It's catchy, it's trendy.
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HW: Which move was it in that one?
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(Laughter)
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I'm asking for your mum.
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SB: Let's do this one.
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HW: Oh no, no, let's not.
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SB: Here we go, we could do this right here.
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Real easy.
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Step together, step together.
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OK, step --
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(Laughter)
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That was amazing.
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HW: That was really horrific, but thank you, I appreciate that.
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Now tell us about your friends.
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Your amazing friends.
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SB: Oh, please, this next generation of incredible talent.
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I've been watching these kids take my class.
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Kimoni, Cam, Corey and Devonte.
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Thank you guys for assisting me.
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(Applause)
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(Cheers and applause)
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Thank you guys, love you.
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Thank you for showing up for me.
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The next generation of dancers, choreographers from Atlanta.
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Thank you for having me.
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(Cheers and applause)
