Takanori Nakagome : 2019Better Together Challenge : Global Final

Takanori Nakagome : Dance knows no borders- Connect the world through dancing and live streaming
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Hello, guys!
I’m, Takanori Nakagome, a professional Hip-Hop dancer like this.
(Applause)
Today, I'd like to talk about how dance makes world peace. I run an education program that connects Asian children with children in other countries mainly in Africa through dancing and the internet live streaming. I started this project alone four years ago but now many people and the organizations have cooperated in this project and l have taught dance to more than 15000 children in 23 continues and have connected 3000 children. Yes, and they dance together and they teach dancing with each other and they perform dancing each other and finally, they dance together at the same time by using Skype, Google hangout and so on.
1:19
It looks so fun, right?
1:21
Why l started the project is... it’s because of my experiences.
This is my childhood.
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When l was a child, l was really shy and l didn’t have a lot of self-confidence. I was really shy, but after working for a while, l decided to pursue my dream which was to travel around the world to teach dancing and it changed my life because l build good relationships with many people in the world and we respected with each other, each other’s differences and l realized l also have a value as the person that l am and so I want children to have same experiences so that l started to connect children from around the world to teach, to dance and the internet live.
2:29
Actually, yeah, like this and this project always moves me a lot, for example, this is during one mouth stay in Rwanda, l connect, "Rwanda, Japanese," Rwanda elemental school students and Japanese elemental school students for one month and they danced together and they, they made a dance video together.
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And there was a boy called Basil in 6th grade. He was like... he was like a leader, he was smart, he spoke English very well, and also he was a great dancer but he, he was a little bit of show off and seems like reluctant, but by interacting with Japanese children for one month, they became good friends and actually his birthday was just Christmas Eve and, and the final day of this workshop was also 24 this December, the Christmas Eve, and l and they danced together. Finally, the Japanese children surprised him by singing happy birthday and the usually nonchalant him, Basil, was severe. Like I'd never seen before and held back tears while listening to their singing become they danced together for one month and they became really great friends and in this ways, l think the world can change through having fun and becoming friends and learning each other, learning from each other. I would like you... l want to show you my activities videos.
(Video, Applause)
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Thanks. In my opinion, people from all of the world are able to get along well with each other, the great rest of the country the culture and l believe “Dance has the power to bring world peace. I wanner make a peaceful world through connecting people from all over the world through dancing and becoming friends.
5:30
Thank you so much.