Who doesn't like to dance? I don't like to, but it is not that I can't dance it's just that there's no one making tunes today like Michael Jackson in his darker skinned years. Hell even Black or White was a great song and dance tune.

But there is music that moves me. Doesn't even have to be instruments. It just has to have soul. Has to have something that is bigger than my soul, so that it steals my soul and claims it for it's own. Bagpipes do it. Didjeridoo/Yirtaki does it too. But what are these things that move our soul and make us want to dance that isn't played in clubs? I have collected a few videos for you to watch and enjoy. They all show me how beautiful dance is and how culturally we are all one people with the same soul.

Here's a haka from the New Zealand Allblacks:



WOW. What a beautiful sight. How moving is it? I was laughing at the end because dancing is what we as humans do to connect with our bodies. We tap into our collective soul, and the our souls move us. It is why a group dancing can be a powerful and spiritual sight. Aren't we wonderful creatures?

Here's some Blackfullas from Australia(BIG UPS TO YOU BRO'S!! HOOOOO!) doing their thing:




Oh these guys got it. They got it. It's not on the same epic scale as the haka but you know us blackfullas ain't into bragging on the epic scale. That was a joke of course. But in all seriousness we're different in our approach. But isn't it just as breathtaking? Even one dancer or one person connected to the big collective soul can move us. And even in a group it is the feeling of being an individual and part of something spiritual that is exilerating. One or two dancers can make us feel like we are in the presence of a large spiritual force.

Here's some Metis jigging and some Pow Wow dancing from North America:




MAN! Those Indian folks can dance hey? Look at those moves! What a beautiful scene it is to see such a young woman pulling off those moves so slick. She's a great talent, and what I love about the jig is that it incorporates the mixture of dance cultures that make the Metis people who they are as mixed ancestry Indigenous and European peoples. But let's not forget those fellas and fellettes at powwow huh? This is individual dancing on the epic scale. Sort of a mixture of the grandeur of the haka, but with the individuality and strength of the individual blackfellas dance. I want to move my ass now.

Ever heard of a guy named Dave 'Elsewhere' Bernal? Check this out if you want your mind blown:




This guy has MOVES! He turns dance into a public frenzy with a few quircky twists of his limbs. He's from the new culture of pop-locking and breaking, but he's expanded on it to show more of his individual self while keeping the soul of those two dances intact. This type of dance though is no harder to perfect than the Metis Jig, it's just different. But don't all these dances connect us as humans to the same place?

In most aboriginal languages there is no word for art because art is what we do with our time on this planet. It is our life. These dances are the type of thing that fill me with pride as a person on this earth. Whether it's Michael Jackson, or the haka... I'll dance if it moves me. Keep it up my people, and I do mean everyone on earth when I say this. I love you.

P.s. Can someone get these guys a dance coach?

Worst haka ever...