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TED2019 | Bigger than us

Session 7: Possibility

  • Judith Jamison
    0:08:33
    Judith Jamison uses dance as a medium for honoring the past, celebrating the present and fearlessly reaching into the future.
  • Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
    0:19:22
    Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater grew from a now-fabled 1958 performance at the 92nd Street Y in New York City. Led by Alvin Ailey and a group of young African-American modern dancers, that performance changed forever the perception of American dance.
  • Rob Reid
    0:25:56
    Author and entrepreneur Rob Reid writes speculative fiction for Random House.
  • Nick Bostrom
    0:43:52
    Nick Bostrom asks big questions: What should we do, as individuals and as a species, to optimize our long-term prospects? Will humanity’s technological advancements ultimately destroy us?
  • Ella Al-Shamahi
    1:14:27
    Ella Al-Shamahi is a palaeoanthropologist specializing in fossil hunting in caves in unstable, hostile and disputed territories. In her spare time, she's a stand-up comic.
  • Victor Vescovo
    1:31:28
    In 2019, Victor Vescovo could become the first person to have climbed to the highest point of all the world's continents as well as descended to the deepest reaches of all its oceans, including the Challenger Deep.
  • Hannah Gadsby
    1:41:25
    Hannah Gadsby skewers the straight world's dismissal and outright hostility toward the LGBTQ community in her stand-up sets, stage performances and television shows.

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