A small, slow collection
lovedancing
a place to find incredible performances by both professionals and ordinary people — to remind us movement can be something close to holy.
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N° 01
Professional
Chandelier Sia, danced by Maddie Ziegler — 2014
An eleven-year-old just performed an entire human life in three minutes and forty-three seconds.A viewer, somewhere on the internet
Sometimes the body knows things the rest of us are still learning to say.
N° 02
Professional
The Dying Swan Lil Buck & Yo‑Yo Ma — Spike Jonze, 2011
He is not dancing to the cello. He is the cello.From the comments
N° 03
Professional
Diversity Britain's Got Talent Final — 2009
I've watched this maybe a hundred times across seventeen years and I still hold my breath at the same moment.A long-time viewer
And sometimes it isn't about being the best. It's just about being there, at the same time, with everyone else.
N° 04
Amateur
Where the Hell is Matt? Matt Harding & friends across the world — 2012
It's just people. Just people, dancing badly together, and somehow it's the most hopeful thing I've ever seen.A viewer in 2024
N° 05
Amateur
Ghetto Kids Britain's Got Talent Golden Buzzer — Kampala, Uganda
They came with nothing but joy and they handed every one of us a piece of it.From the comments
Keep dancing.
In the kitchen. At the wedding. Alone in the hallway at two in the morning. It counts. All of it counts.