He asks strangers in the street to teach him their favorite dance ... What happens next is more than just dance.
Brut spent a day with Ed People.
Brut spent a day with Ed People.
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00:00Can you teach me your favorite dance move?
00:05No matter what age you are or where you're from, you can share a dance with a stranger
00:16and create a rapid connection with them.
00:22Can you teach me your favorite dance move?
00:23Of course, I'm an Indian and dance runs in my blood.
00:26I ask them, can you teach me your favorite dance move?
00:29And I don't even ask them what's the dance of the country you're from or of your country
00:34of origin.
00:35But a lot of them will show me something that comes from their country of origin or from
00:39their backgrounds.
00:40I'll teach you some steps of Bhangra.
00:45You realize that they're proud of that heritage they have.
00:48And that's beautiful to see.
01:07Most people I approach, they are not even aware of how amazing they are.
01:11They have this amazing energy, this crazy smile, this amazing style, and they're not
01:16even aware of it.
01:23There is nothing more interesting than someone who doesn't even know they're interesting.
01:27So I will see someone and they're like, oh, I'm kind of shy.
01:30I don't know how to dance.
01:31And I'm like, yeah, but you're so amazing.
01:33Like you're shining with your energy.
01:35Can you teach me your favorite dance move?
01:42I've been dancing my whole life.
01:48That's the first hobby that I can remember I had.
01:51I always loved learning new dances.
01:53So if I would see someone at a party dancing like an Indian dance, I would always ask them,
01:58hey, can you teach me how to dance that?
02:09My biggest hobby in life was salsa.
02:11I was dancing four, five times per week.
02:15That was my hobby, but it was also my community.
02:17COVID kind of took that away from me.
02:19I was like, what am I going to do?
02:20And I was pretty pessimistic.
02:21On the first day, the Belgian government said you can go out and you can socialize with
02:26people in parks.
02:27I saw this girl dancing with two boys.
02:31There was one guy playing the double bass, a guy playing the banjo, and the girl was
02:35dancing the Charleston.
02:37And I just asked her, can you teach me how to dance that dance?
02:41She taught it to me.
02:42We danced together.
02:43And then I thought that would be cool to record it and to do a small intro.
02:47I did that dance with her.
02:49I felt more alive than I felt during the whole COVID.
02:54And I saw another group dancing, so I asked them.
02:58I asked a third group.
02:59I came back home.
03:00I downloaded TikTok.
03:01I edited the video.
03:02I posted it.
03:04And I thought that was like the best day since COVID started.
03:08And I was like, I want to have another day like that.
03:11So I did it another day, and then another day, and then another day, and I just never
03:15stopped.
03:16And I think you might have a dance, yeah?
03:17I don't have a dancing part.
03:18As I say to everyone, it's not a project about dance.
03:19It's more a project about people.
03:20I have a lot of private messages from people from all around the world who tell me, thank
03:31you for showing my culture, thank you for the smile you put on my face, or a lot of
03:36people tell me I had a bad day and I watched some of your videos and it put a smile on
03:41my face.
03:42I have a lot of people telling me it gives me faith in humanity.
03:46And I think as humans, we really love watching other humans happy, and that's kind of the
03:51whole purpose of the video is to show that you don't need that much to be happy with
03:55another person.
03:56Just sharing a dance and a moment of like a shared passion that you can have together.