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12 YouTube Videos I'm Enjoying Right Now

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12 YouTube Videos I'm Enjoying Right Now

Some of these come from readers' comments to our Open Mic thread earlier this week

Ted Gioia
Nov 25, 2022
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12 YouTube Videos I'm Enjoying Right Now

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Below are 12 YouTube videos that I’ve been enjoying this week.

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I discovered a number of outstanding videos from readers here, who shared links in our recent open thread. (The comments from that post are filled with gems—so if you missed it, do yourself a favor and spend at least a few minutes checking out some of the links.)

Here’s one of them: Pierre Baillot’s updating of an 800-year-old composition.

I liked this so much that I showed it to six other people on Thanksgiving, when I should have been helping prepare the dinner—including my dancer spouse Tara, who said: “I could choreograph to that.”

Baillot provided this background: “During the lockdown here in Paris I met a fantastic countertenor who has a whole repertoire of medieval/early music and baroque music. As a multi-instrumentalist and jazz musician, I immediately saw musical bridges between medieval/early music and oriental/African/Indian music. I decided to rearrange this whole repertoire and we created a unique fusion between all these music genres. The project is called Sprezzatura.”

#2

This next video was suggested by Tara, who is teaching a college course on world dance this semester. She showed it to me, and I liked it so much that I’m passing it on to you. It combines traditional Bharathanatyam dance from India with hip-hop choreography.

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