One million steps - a tap dancing adventure: Marije Nie at TEDxDelft
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0:14 - 0:27(Tap dancing)
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1:27 - 1:37(Tap dancing)
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1:37 - 1:38(Child calls)
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1:38 - 1:41(Environmental sounds)
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1:41 - 1:45(Tap dancing)
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2:31 - 2:52(Man sings on cue with tap dancing)
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3:01 - 3:14(Man joins in clapping hands)
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3:14 - 3:17(People join in, calling)
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3:17 - 3:25(Applause)
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3:25 - 3:26Thank you.
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3:26 - 3:31This was a little -- the begining part
of my new movie "One Million Steps". -
3:32 - 3:36It's not finished yet.
We're still working really hard on it. -
3:36 - 3:40I've been doing a lot of steps
for you, just now -
3:40 - 3:42-- also in the movie.
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3:42 - 3:46And they are poetic steps,
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3:46 - 3:49creative steps.
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3:49 - 3:52I don't move from A to B.
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3:52 - 3:54I just stay in A
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3:54 - 3:56and really have --
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3:56 - 3:57-- fun there.
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3:57 - 3:59And when I look at what happens
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3:59 - 4:01when I'm tap dancing,
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4:01 - 4:04I realize
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4:04 - 4:05the sounds is what you hear,
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4:05 - 4:08what actually communicates
the rhythm and the music. -
4:08 - 4:11But all my activity
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4:11 - 4:13happens in between the sounds.
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4:13 - 4:14In between the beats.
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4:14 - 4:17In the silence.
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4:17 - 4:19(Tap dancing)
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4:19 - 4:22All my impulses,
my movements, -
4:22 - 4:25it happens before,
in the silence. -
4:25 - 4:27And it was funny, but
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4:27 - 4:32when started tap dancing,
I didn't notice I was fixated on the beat. -
4:32 - 4:35Really doing it.
Putting the sound there. -
4:35 - 4:39And when I realized
it happens in the silence, -
4:39 - 4:41this was a real breakthrough for me.
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4:41 - 4:45To learn that you throw
the beat in front of you -
4:45 - 4:47and then ... (Tap)
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4:47 - 4:50... it happens there.
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4:50 - 4:53We all take a lot of steps in our lives.
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4:53 - 4:57Someone actually
took the trouble to count them -
4:57 - 4:59and came to this incredible number
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4:59 - 5:05of 1.825.000 steps in a year
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5:05 - 5:09for every average human being.
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5:09 - 5:13So, you all do this.
Well done! -
5:13 - 5:17(Applause)
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5:17 - 5:21Big steps, small steps,
you don't really give them much thought. -
5:21 - 5:23They just take you from A to B
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5:23 - 5:26where you need to go.
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5:26 - 5:29And when you do them,
when you're walking -
5:29 - 5:32your body automatically
falls in a rhythm. -
5:32 - 5:34A pulse... (Clicks fingers)
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5:34 - 5:37And this saves you energy
and makes you go a long way -
5:37 - 5:40without having to think about every step.
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5:40 - 5:42(Walks)
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5:44 - 5:45I don't really have to take care
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5:45 - 5:49or think about what I'm doing right now.
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5:51 - 5:57But something happens when
you start playing with the silences -
5:57 - 6:00and the breaks, the pauses
in between your steps. -
6:00 - 6:02(Tap dances)
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6:16 - 6:20Suddenly this very normal thing of walking
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6:20 - 6:22becomes music and rhythm,
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6:22 - 6:24and for me
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6:24 - 6:28tap dancing in this way becomes walking poetry
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6:28 - 6:34You take the breaks, the silences
you make them very small or very large -
6:34 - 6:37and this is how you get this playful mode.
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6:37 - 6:40And somehow underneath - (Clicks fingers)
there's still the pulse. -
6:41 - 6:44But because I'm playing with these pauses
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6:44 - 6:46and stopping sometimes...
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6:46 - 6:48(Tap dances)
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6:52 - 6:55...and then I riff on this pulse of normality,
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6:55 - 7:00it becomes playful and
generates a lot of ideas. -
7:01 - 7:06So, this was a thing
that I was intrigued by: -
7:06 - 7:08silence...
pause... -
7:08 - 7:11... and how it becomes poetry.
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7:11 - 7:17And I was intrigued, together with my friend
Eva Stotz, from Berlin, a film maker, -
7:17 - 7:22and we thought: wouldn't it be great
to put these poetically walking feet -
7:22 - 7:29and confront them with
functionally walking feet in the big city, -
7:29 - 7:31just to see what happens when they meet.
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7:31 - 7:33These two modes,
can they inspire each other? -
7:33 - 7:37Maybe the poetic feet
can bring something loose -
7:37 - 7:42to the functionally, hastily
walking steps of normal life. -
7:42 - 7:44So we went to Istanbul
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7:44 - 7:47because we thought intuitively:
this is a great place, -
7:47 - 7:51lots of things are happening there
-- let's do it there. -
7:51 - 7:56And this would become the movie
"One Million Steps". -
7:56 - 8:00Something incredible happened, though.
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8:00 - 8:03The second time we were in Istanbul to film
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8:03 - 8:06was in June 2013.
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8:06 - 8:08And I don't know if you remember, but
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8:08 - 8:11Istanbul exploded at that moment.
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8:11 - 8:15Thousands of people stopped their daily lives,
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8:15 - 8:16their daily routines,
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8:16 - 8:20and went into the streets and just said "No.
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8:20 - 8:21Not any longer.
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8:21 - 8:25We need to create a break, a pause.
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8:25 - 8:29Because this machine
of the city, of the government -
8:29 - 8:31is just rolling too fast
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8:31 - 8:34and it's breaking us."
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8:34 - 8:39The incredible energy that happened there,
we were in the middle of it -- -
8:39 - 8:44-- is very intense.
All these people just couldn't go on. -
8:44 - 8:47And what they did was very symbolic
and beautiful to me. -
8:47 - 8:51They built a barricade
around Taksim Square. -
8:51 - 8:53And "Taksim", by the way,
means "improvisation", -
8:53 - 8:56so it was strangely fitting.
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8:56 - 9:00Around Taksim Square,
where Gezi Park is -- -
9:00 - 9:02this was the park that was threatened,
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9:02 - 9:09it was the issue that made everything explode --
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9:09 - 9:12they cordoned off this space.
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9:12 - 9:15And inside was a safe space,
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9:15 - 9:18a space outside of normality and functionality.
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9:18 - 9:21And there life was different.
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9:21 - 9:27They were not busy making ten points
for a new political program -
9:28 - 9:31or choosing a leader
that would speak for everyone. No. -
9:31 - 9:35They we using this space
as a silence, as a pause. -
9:35 - 9:39There was music, dancing...
and most importantly -
9:39 - 9:42-- sorry, I shouldn't say music is not important --
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9:42 - 9:45most importantly, people were talking.
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9:45 - 9:48And generating seeds for new ideas
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9:48 - 9:53because it was a place outside of normality,
outside of functionality. -
9:53 - 9:57I would like to show you
a fragment of the film. -
9:57 - 9:59We filmed in Gezi park.
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9:59 - 10:04It was one of the most intense moments
for me, on the barricades. -
10:04 - 10:07One side is protesters
the other side is police, -
10:07 - 10:11and we were in the middle, making music.
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10:13 - 10:16(Percussion)
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10:19 - 10:26(Joins in with tap dancing)
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10:45 - 10:49(People join in, clapping)
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10:49 - 10:51(Rhythm picks up)
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10:51 - 10:53(Whistles join in)
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11:13 - 11:22(Applause)
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11:22 - 11:30(Applause and cheering)
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11:30 - 11:39(Clapping and trumpet)
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11:39 - 11:43(Tap dancing cues in)
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12:00 - 12:11(People join in, singing 'Bella ciao')
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12:18 - 12:26(Applause, percussion and whistling)
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12:26 - 12:44Crowd chanting:
"Everywhere Taksim, everywhere resistance" -
12:45 - 12:57(Percussion, whistling and shouting
continue in background) -
12:57 - 13:04(Applause)
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13:04 - 13:07It was so incredible...
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13:07 - 13:12I always go back to this moment
when I see the movie, this part. -
13:14 - 13:18Silence. Pause. Poetry.
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13:18 - 13:20It's what happened in Gezi Park.
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13:20 - 13:23It's what's happening in my feet.
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13:23 - 13:26And with this talk
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13:26 - 13:30I would like to inspire you
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13:31 - 13:34to do this at home.
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13:34 - 13:36This was the theme [of the TEDx conference]
-- how to do it at home. -
13:36 - 13:40I see you in your kitchen tables,
making pauses and breaks... -
13:41 - 13:43But how do we do it?
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13:43 - 13:49I think the only thing I want to say about it,
because it's different for every person, -
13:49 - 13:55is the attention that you can put
on the silence, on the break. -
13:55 - 14:00It's not just relaxing, turning on
your television, and doing nothing. -
14:00 - 14:06It's actually a very powerful, full moment
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14:06 - 14:14when you're allowed to be
outside of functional steps. -
14:14 - 14:17The only thing I would like to make a case for
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14:17 - 14:20is to use these moments and value them.
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14:20 - 14:25Play, make music,
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14:26 - 14:30(Applause)
- Title:
- One million steps - a tap dancing adventure: Marije Nie at TEDxDelft
- Description:
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Marije Nie is a musician with her feet, a dancing percussionist. Her tap dance style is the perfect symbiosis between music and dance. The rhythm dictates the movement and the movement determines the sound. She feels at home in many different kinds of music: jazz, improvisational music, world music, contemporary, classic music, experimental electronic music and dance. With her skills for improvisation and her passion for experimentation, she created her unique niche between composed and improvised music. At TEDxDelft she presents her tap dance adventure, the film One Million Steps.
In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)
- Video Language:
- English
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- Duration:
- 14:39
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I changed 'motes' to 'modes' (7:30)
Added an 'e' to 'threatned' (threatened) (8:59)
These were the only changes; really great subtitles!
Els De Keyser
Please make sure that every sentence ends with a punctuation mark.
Els De Keyser
Dear transcriber and reviewer,
This was a good transcription, and a difficult one, because of all the sounds that needed to be described. However, it did need more editing than the few changes made by the reviewer. Please pay more attention to punctuation and to the timing of the subtitles.
Mariana Perry
Thank you so much for your comments!
I will try and pay more attention to the timing next time. I will also pay more attention to the punctuation.