Hoop dance performance: Lisa Odjig at TEDxSenecaCollege
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ก.พ. 2025
- World champion hoop dancer and Seneca Alumna Lisa Odjig, a member of the Ojibwe Nation, performs a traditional hoop dance to open the afternoon session of TEDxSenecaCollege.
The stamina, devotion, steady strength this young woman showed surpasses many, including me. The message the dance conveyed is as important as the dance itself:
We are all One.
Wow doesn't even begin to express what I feel when I watch this lady dance. She is the best hoop dancer I have ever seen. Amazing!
Wow we have lost so much how precious to see this x
This is so beautiful,so powerful...awesome! Shows,more than ever before, the power of the human spirit,regardless of the local culture.
WOW! She's awesome. I could watch her dance for hours!
Wow, she's a very skilled dancer! Look at those fluid movements!
rajkumar
seen her perform at our local powwow a few years ago; awesome show she put on. Very beautiful spirit, nice lady through and through. Her cousin is also an actor Gregory Odjig.
I haven't been to a powwow since I moved to Philly, PA. The nostalgia is so real right now. Beautiful! Thank you. 😊
Can it start with you? My kids reminded me I have seen this before, they've been "performing" for me more & more & I feel i have to get them custom everything
Amazing.... I feel like I have to make up a new word to describe her awesomeness...
Well, it's been 7 years. Do you have that new word yet?
Awesome to be able to dance in such a small space too
I just found out today hoop dancing is incredible!!!! WOW! I loved it!!! Blessings!
That dance was absolutely beautiful..amazing! Thank you downloading this video. I live in the Sierra Nevada.
She is not only beautiful but she is graceful in her movements like a ballerina and with a lightness of foot😎
Thank you for the beautiful dance. So inspiring.
OMG!!! I cant even! this is so impressive and I really want to learn this kind of stuff. I've hoop danced a couple of times but it was like 1/2 of a quarter cool than what this was. wow! good job!!!
Ha ha, I'd trip and fall down with the first hoop. I love the hoop dancers.
It is so cool to see how different cultures have different types of dances. It makes us all unique. We would be so boring if we were all the same.😊
She represents the power animals well.
Powerful beyond anything I could say thank you
She is amazing!
Puts the AWE in Awesome information and Video. Wow.
THANKS FOR SHARING THIS.
She is soooo awesome!!!!!!
very talented , beautiful performance. truly gifted.
Beautiful Performance !!!
So talented!!
This is so beautiful and so hard to do! Very impressive performance!
So amaaaaaaaazing!
I love the eagle part...majesty✨🌟✨🌟
Beautifully Done!
I love this
so spiritual!! thank you!!
You better do them ancestors proud 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
amazing job megwich!
I'm glad the Feds and the churches didn't succeed in beating this Magic out of the Indigenous Peoples.
Blessings to the Generations that held the Circle!
Agreed! If it weren't for our Magic we would have no country left at all. The Feds & churches tried hard to penetrate our Circle but NO such luck.
We whites lost so much knowledge
Amazing!!!
was anyone able to count how many hoops she used? - this was mesmerizing
20 I think?
Perfection
Wow! Fun!
Amazing
My meds make me too dizzy to watch. Just kidding. Looks like a lot of awesomeness! I have only seen a handful of hoop dancers in my lifetime
Hi This so beautiful so powerful shows woo❤
My last brain cell when I have a mental breakdown
Its impossible to imagine the time when people did this for fun and because it MEANT something to them (and their family, and the TRIBE) to have certains skills like dancing, and people wanted to learn from the best teachers and carry on traditions and learn the wisdom elders knew. Now no one wants to learn anything from anyone older than them, especially if its seen as old fashioned. Now the only thing people learn is to stare mindlessly into the technologic mirror that robs them of their time and their life, and post pictures of things they "like" but will never actually do because they are too busy pretending to be someone or something they're not.
preach
Plato Quemado that’s so sad but so true
Plato Quemado one positive thing is technology can bring like minded people together and maybe the young will learn there is a wealth of knowledge all the elders out in the world have that they can learn from
That is not true. People all over the world are teaching each other these arts using the internet to share their culture and skills. Traditional dances, martial arts, circus disciplines and many other movement arts are being shared across greater distances than ever before. These skills live on in Flow Arts communities across the globe and there has been an explosion of tutorial videos being shared through youtube and other sites over the last decade. These are usually very inclusive and welcoming groups, if you are interested in learning, find some videos or look for a flow arts jam in your area.
Awesome
She's a good dancer.
Wow!
Divine woman
I like the song-Little Boy Singers? I want that CD. LOL!
Those are women.
I understand the symbolism of the hoop itself. Do the configurations have their own symbolism?
All of nature belongs to the circle of life, meaning being born, live and die. If you watch, the hoops by their configuration in the dance turn into butterflies, eagles, caterpillars, flowers, the world. It was very easy for me to see it as she danced. Al native dance tells a story. In this one I just see many plants and animals. To my spirit it seems as one life form dies another is born and life continues like in a circle repeating itself.
Actually toward the end she makes two spheres and then there is an eagle then god or man figure. I assume the two spheres are the sun and moon and creator and interaction of man. Eagles represent communication between God and man because he can soar to heaven to carry the messages. God and man is responsible for the care and harmony of everything in the earth in nature and it is a relationship.
There isn’t any secret knowledge of symbols needed to get the meaning from the dance. However, seeing animals, totems can have meaning in that their natures teach us things such as if you see lots of spiders it means you might be lazy or have a messy house that needs cleaning. A fox can mean cunning, a snake can mean stealth. The meanings are based on the animal personality, mannerisms, and habits such as the wisdom of squirrels saving food for winter. That kind of thing. So we learn by watching animals. It is in the Bible too. Proverbs 6:6. It is just people don’t follow the wisdom handed to them whether handed down from Native traditions or written in a Bible. They may read words but forget to practice.
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I wonder what the women are saying in the background music with the drum beating and all of that chanting?! Does anyone speak Seneca Indian?! Does anyone know what they were saying as she was dancing 💃 there? BECAUSE, I'm sure the music 🎶 is an integral part of the ceremonial dancing! No?!
Awesome I'm tired watching out of breath for her
Elegant
Can you teach me how to do that
Great
How many dimensions is she speaking to?
Great drum but the dancer is incredible.
what song is this?
Quantum entangled...how's that for a Ted talk?
i have seen the dance before
I wonder if Jon edward (mcgee HIMSELF) thought this thru?
Ok.
Sacred hulu hoop. Hawaii? Hawa- ee-ee? Honolulu? Lilith-th-th?
Nothing happens
I don't like the song😑but you did awesome
Avery Edwards well, you obviously haven’t heard of the First Native/Cree/Indigenous culture. Get used to it if you’re going to watch these videos ._.
That "song" in a prayer.
i am mildly unconformable
I know this is four years old, but why?
I wonder how long these traditional hoop dances have taken place?
Wiki it. 1930s I think