5 Impossible African Dances you Need to See to Believe 

You can take Africans from Africa, but you can’t take Africa out of Africans. I’ve seen black people from the diaspora specifically in Americas do all of these dances identically or at least similarly. We are great people.

Zaouli dance is the full range of moonwalk on steroids!!! We are excellent dancers! 💪🏿

The stamina of ivorian is awesome!

We have everything in Africa but lack good leadership

They're all great, but the Zaouli dance has some raw spiritual power that blows the others away. Incredible!

I love African traditional dance 💃🏾 love from USA.

I rewatched the Zaouli dance 10-15x Times trying to figure out how in the hell he did any of that. Mind blown and still trying to pick my jaw up off the floor! My brain can’t even try to count how many times bounced just one leg up n down. Wow!!!

We know some of James Brown's ancestors were from.the Ivory coast.

The only “imposible” dance was #1!! My man was floating on the dirt. He wasn’t touching the floor.

As a Brazilian watching this , I've watched all the dances in this video and the only word I memorized was " zaouli" dance , that's more than just a dance , it's pure athleticism 👏👏

The Zaouli dance and the accompanying music is very beautiful... Africans definitely should be very proud of what their tradition is all about...Even the other dances here are so nice to watch..

The Zaouli dance is epic, i am enchanted. In Namibia we have a dance called omupembe wandema where men jump over each others head. Loved this and bless Africa

🥰He doing the front, sideways and the traditional backwards moonwalk. How amazing! I love my People❤️

I swear I smelled that dust from Ivory coast.

For me the best traditional dances are The Eskista from Ethiopia and Zaouli dance from Côte d'Ivoire They are wonderfull because they are typical without modernism

"4 African dances and ONE totally impossible African dance."

Love the dancers of Africa

The Only iMpossible African Dance Here Is The Zaouli Dance Of Guro People In Ivory Coast,It Needs Discipline,Dedication And It Takes Years To Perfect

That Zaouli tho.....crazy...gqom uve got to be on other level of fitness.... no one in the world can even come close, how can god give everything to one people we too blessed 💪🏿💪🏿💪🏿

Awesome dancers!!! The Ethiopian dancers are on another level, but I like the Zaouli dancers the most. I like their dance off, competing with each region is amazing to watch.✊🏾🌍💃🏾🕺🏾👋🏽

The last guy was Crip Walking on another level.

Continent full of so much talent !!!

We Africans we are unbelievable, we are just sooo great 👍 🙌 that's the moonwalk. I'm sooo proud 👏.. Thank you Bro 👍🏾.

As a African American all of our Black people have natural rhymn. All you have to do put the music on watch us move. That a gift and talent whether you are in Africa or in America

Zaouli Dance is amazing and it should be promoted internationally 👍. This culture should be preserve in good way.

Magical amazing and beautiful African KINGS and QUEENS, l love it, we are blessed.

the zaouli dance is spectacular ! Wish I could see it performed live once.

All these dance were Amazing much love from Ghana 🇬🇭 ❤️

That is ART!!

Xhosa people of South Africa/Zimbabwe have dance called Tyityimba It's exactly the same as the Eskista dance of Ethiopia. Africa is one

🙉Warning: Don't try the Esikisita dance if u're pregnant. And those Ziaouli hotsteppers from Cote D'Voire God bless 'em.😉

I broke both ankles and three knees trying these dances!! Lol!! Beautiful!!!!!

WOW 🤯🤯🤯✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 Zaouli I can see where MJ got some inspiration for that Moonwalk. 😀😀

Even though it should not be assumed that ALL black people are “naturally” musicians or musically enclined, there’s a reason why black people invented the best dances and can make the best music.

The amount of shuffle on that hovercraft is insane!

As a scandinavian person i wish we had this kind of culture. Its extremely fascinating to be able to DANCE a piece of your ancestry like this!

The Zaouli dance is the only impossible one in the list. The rest can be learnt, in my opinion

The number 1 dancer looks like he is hovering on the ground. Amazing!

The Ivorian dance seemed like the most difficult one to me.. even if I do szy so as an Ivorian myself 🇨🇮🙌🏾🙌🏾

No 1 . The strength with speed is remarkable . And isolation with his head, blows me away. I’d love to see this live. Turkish belly dancing had nothing on these dancers. Loved every dance here. Thanks for showing. Africa. The centre of the world

Zaouli dancer moves like a hovercraft ....smooth & fast in any direction

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Saw Burundi 🇧🇮 😍 had to come and see much love Africa❤️🙌🏾

4:38 now we know why Michael Jackson visit Ivory Coast, We Africans are so talented and so creative if we can stop violence civil war against each other to enjoy beautiful moments like this with each other’s peacefully that will give our innocent beautiful children to express themselves peace unity and one love, so please stop violence and civil war everywhere in Africa and Middle East

The Ivory Coast Dancers look like they are Floating on the ground! The speed with which they stomp is amazing 😻

Im OBSSESSED with watching zaouli

Zaouli dance is exactly how James Brown danced in the 60’s and 70’s

The Zaouli dance is mesmerizing 🤩

The person doing the zauoli dance is the best I have seen.

If I could go to dance class, it will be this one from the Ivory coast, now I Know Jackson and James B were from the Ivory coast

Zaouli n pantsula dance really impossible very difficult to even try amazing proud to have such heritage

The Zaouli Dance has to be No.1 - Visually, Energetically and Mesmerising. This should be on a Global Tour bringing the special red dust 🌍

The Zaouli dance reminded me the movies Transformers🤩😍🥰 The Kenya and Tanzania dance also is known in south Somalia called Kabebe with all kinds of great moves🥰

0:43: To my knowledge, there is no one Gqom dance. The genre of Gqom has shone a light on a number of dances with their own names. The one I believe is being highlighted her is the vosho, characterized by the drop on one's hinds with a springing back up to an upright position nornally followed up by another dance move. The vosho is done with many itterations which include the extending on one leg before descent, after descent, the crossing of one leg around the other before descent etc. The main motion essentially is the swift drop down followed by the quick return up.

I love all forms of world dance. They are all stunningly beautiful, Thai, Bali, Indian classical, Indian tribal, Berber, Egyptian, Native American, Japanese, Javanese, Sumatran, Tuareg, Arabian, Mauritanian, all the amazing dances of the different countries of the African continent, South American native, Hawaiian hula, Australian aboriginal, Polish, Balkan, Russian, western ballet, EVERY TYPE OF DANCE I LOVE !!!

Truelky amused by what a human body can do. Love each type of dance🥰

My Zaouli Dancer's I just love em! Awesome!

That's melanin for you 😍👍👍🙏🏻🙏🏻

I seen so many culture dance but Zaouli dance has that mesmerizing move, look like floating slow motions dance, unlike other dance that heavily focus on choreographed dance patterns... plus on the traditional music instruments. 10/10.

It's amazing how African bodies flow to music. Everyry cell from head to toe feels the beat and flows to it

Number 5 make my ankles ache! Number 3 us Caribbean’s whining looks like it came from that. Number 2 locking popping whatever they call that hip hop style of dance. 💜💜

The pantsula dance and zaouli dance are mad 💃

This is why we got the best bodies , unique beauty and outstanding in all ways period Proud AFRICAN

they all are extraordinary, but the Zaoui is by far the best and most creative dance I have ever seen....I'm am destined to see thiese dances in eal life.....real soon

Substitute "impossible" with "difficult ". Especially Number 2.

I see my native traditional dance in the beginning of the Vedeo, the girl dancing on stiks! We are part of runaway slaves! This a village in Surinam, small country in South America! To me, this is like a welcome back home!

The #2 spot reminds me of some of the dance moves of the NYC "subway" street dance performers! Amazing!!!

Iuvvvve these dances! These are all universal Black moves!!! I am just grinning!!!!

Asiko and bikutsi too from Cameroon 🇨🇲🇨🇲🇨🇲🇨🇲🖤🖤

Gwann African Man taking this to the highest level...simple.

As a white South African This makes me proud. 👍👏

If you miss Congo concerning dances YOU DON’T KNOW MUCH ABOUT AFRICA!!!!

Woow brother I love number one that ivory coast dance the guy is footing on air Michel Jackson could learn from that impossible dance.✌️✊💓🎉🎉🎉

WWWOOOOOWWWWW!! MY GOD IN HEAVEN!!! This is mesmerizing! Beyond amazing! WOW!

My God! Africans are incredibly incredibly talented!!!!

"Africa, a continent that has all but not all".

You must see asiko from Cameroon 🇨🇲 stoning

Nobody can match the great physical prowess of these Africans.They are super.

Number one the Zulily dances my favorite oh yeah from Ivory Coast thank you so much you're beautiful people

All amazing dancers Bravo

Eskista 🔥 I would try the Gqom dance if I had fully functioning knees 🤣

Amazing, every one of them, just amazing!!!! The only thing that saddens me, is seeing how much of African Americans have been robbed of our true culture and heritage due to the atrocities of slavery. Such beautiful art, thanks for sharing!

These little "follow the hat" guys out here in NY got nothing on #2! They need to be out here tearing up the trains 😂😂😂. They're all incredible! Pure 🔥🔥 but #1 rank is well deserved. That was mind blowing 🤯. I'm tired, my leg hurt just from watching that. Amazing! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

Wola ma pantsula

Greetings from Jamaica 🇯🇲 Trelawny Albert Town All these moves are in the Afro-community allover the world. Being captured and turned into slaves there is 👎NO,NO DISAPPOINTMENT..JUST JOY WATCHING MY YOUNG COUSINS IN THE MOTHERLAND KEEPING WHAT BINDS US TOGETHER AS A COMMUNITY, MUSIC, FOOD AND LOVE. GOD BLESS YOU FROM JAMAICA 🇯🇲 KINGSTON LAND OF MY BIRTH. MOTHERLAND AFRICA LAND OF MY ANCESTORS BIRTH. DONT EVER FORGET JAMAICA THE PRISON ISLAND. GOD BLESS MY ANCESTORS BECAUSE ONLY THE MOST FEARED AND PRESTIGIOUS WERE SENT THERE AND THE LIFE EXPECTANCY WAS 7YEARS. A HANDSOME YOUN AFRICAN BOY OF 15YEARS OLD WOULD BE DEAD BY 22 PRIME OF LIFE. BUT BE PROUD OF US WE SURVIVED TO TELL YOU OUR STORIES. I AM SURE MY ANCESTORS ARE REJOICING WHEREVER THEY ARE. THEIR SPIRIT IS AT REST. THEY TAUGHT US NEVER TO FORGET MOTHERLAND AFRICA AND WE NEVER DID. THOU FAR BUT NEAR IN HEART. WE DON'T HAVE NAMES OR LANGUAGE AND WE DONT WANT ONE BESTOWED UPON US WE ARE PROUD OF OUR HERITAGE A NATION WITHIN A NATION. CAPTURED PEOPLE OF AFRICA MUST NEVER FORGET WHAT HAPPENED TO THEIR ANCESTORS.

Amazing. Can't wait to watch it 10 more times in a row.

i love seeing these videos, I'm an american blk, and we dance sooo similar to you all it's scary. i truly believe we carry the blueprint of you guy's creation within us, we will always be connected.

bruh how come i didnt inherit any of this flexibility, strong joints, etc from my ancestors 😭 im jealous

M surprised that leg kicking Zulu dance did not make the list.

Other then the amazing moves on number one, awesome for sure, ive seen em all done on the streets of eastcoast america since the 80's. Its called breakdance.

I see where African Americans get the flex dance style from now . 2nd dance here . So cool ❤️❤️❤️

Eskista Wow

How are some of these even possible?

The best it's Zaouli dance!! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Seriously number one is always sooooooooo fascinating!! I try and fail.

There's no such thing as a 'gqom' dance. Gqom is a type of music, not dance. It's like saying , 'the R&B dance'. Makes no sense.

Number 5 is called vosho dance

Zaouli 😲, perfect marriage of music and dance, listen to the fife and drums, rapid fire, fuel for the legs, the spirit souring and gliding. Did I hear someone say "pull uuup" has to be Jamaican 🇯🇲🇯🇲😂😂

Our people are amazing and when left untouched by the modern world we are natural geniuses