Igbo Dance: “Ije nwayo” by Agbani-Nguru Ikorodo Group

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  • Опубліковано 27 лис 2024

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  • @Africa1000
    @Africa1000 4 роки тому +86

    Incredible grace and poise by the women dancers. Imagine the fitness required to actually perform the dance moves. As the for the musicians... The rhythm is totally spiritual passed down from generation to generation. God bless Africa!

    • @goldbluetears
      @goldbluetears 3 роки тому +3

      these rhythms are absolutely out of this world! They are literally on another level to europeanized singular rhythm 4/4 confinement of LIFE!

    • @google12greekmythsthatprove.
      @google12greekmythsthatprove. 3 роки тому +3

      Google: Top 3 quotes of BUTTERFLY McQUEEN.
      She grew up thinking skin color was a CULTURE too but it is NOT.
      EVERONE no matter OUR shade, shape & culture IS the ONE human RACE.

    • @Sampsonoff
      @Sampsonoff 3 роки тому

      @@goldbluetears why you gotta make this a comparison between Europeans and Africans? Not a healthy way to think and obviously opens the door to other comparisons

    • @goldbluetears
      @goldbluetears 3 роки тому +5

      @@Sampsonoff why not in terms of rhythm this is uniquely african and in europe nowhere to be found except some hints of it in mediterranian cultures but that is due to african and islamic influences.
      Polyrhythmic complexity is totally alien to central europe. Its a fact.

    • @Sampsonoff
      @Sampsonoff 3 роки тому

      @@goldbluetears tbh I live in an area with a lot of white supremacists (northern Idaho, southern BC) and they are always playing the comparison game. But obviously using it to show how technologically, academically, etc superior Europeans are. And I’m always the one arguing that it’s dumb to compare people like that because of all the other factors that created the differences. So it’s a neat fact you shared about the superiority of their rhythms in this case, I just think it triggers a tribal mindset that can lead to terrible ways of comparing/analyzing different races

  • @ay6389
    @ay6389 2 роки тому +19

    I'm Basque Mexican American. Upon learning more about Basque people I saw an article that states the closest dialect to euskera is the Igbo people. Beautiful people and beautiful dances . I'm so happy my reading brought me here. Blessings to all 💗💗💗

    • @uzzyvick
      @uzzyvick Рік тому +1

      @A.Y please can you provide the link to this article, thanks 😊

    • @Nne-nne
      @Nne-nne Рік тому

      Tell us the article please

    • @8AUGS
      @8AUGS Місяць тому

      According to google, it is similar to "Indo"-European languages, not Igbo? Euskera has pretty much the same sounds and intonation of Spanish, but it is not Spanish. You can find Euskera Basque language spoken here on UA-cam.

  • @ositaurama2243
    @ositaurama2243 4 роки тому +56

    The chiefs play the instruments while their daughters dance. Awesome culture.

  • @kymgrant6204
    @kymgrant6204 4 роки тому +67

    All the way from jamaican I'm in love with your dancing and people in general 😊

    • @egoibekwe8058
      @egoibekwe8058 3 роки тому +3

      Thank you sis.

    • @ikechicoreralation
      @ikechicoreralation 3 роки тому +1

      Thanks!

    • @jayk8338
      @jayk8338 3 роки тому +2

      Thank you so much 🖤🇳🇬

    • @janshi876
      @janshi876 3 роки тому +1

      I was just vibing and was happy to see another Jamaican showing live in the comments.

    • @kingsleyazubuike9321
      @kingsleyazubuike9321 2 роки тому +4

      some Jamaicans actually share ancestry with they Igbos, you might have some Igbo blood in you

  • @gpsglobal3024
    @gpsglobal3024 4 роки тому +38

    Power to The Igbos FOREVER !!!

  • @chellelechelle
    @chellelechelle 2 роки тому +10

    I must come from the Igbo people this resonated within a deep part of me😍

    • @DROEMEKA-is2wc
      @DROEMEKA-is2wc Рік тому

      Learn your truth history not just saying I must come from igbo people, go killed your European accent or go claim your european kemet.

  • @leilag1076
    @leilag1076 3 роки тому +33

    I literally started doing this move when hearing the music before seeing them dance. It's in my blood.

  • @Krayziie
    @Krayziie 3 роки тому +26

    Im from kenya, But im obsessed with nigerain culture and I have been waiting to go there for so long, and finally my chance has came!

  • @haruspex1-50
    @haruspex1-50 4 роки тому +48

    This years black history months been especially tough for me. I’ve had a lot of resentment for what happened to our people. I want to heal but it’s hard. The screams of our ancestors suffering is never lost on me. Seeing this has uplifted my spirits though. It’s truly wonderful

    • @AmandaIheme
      @AmandaIheme 3 роки тому +3

      I feel the same way.

    • @google12greekmythsthatprove.
      @google12greekmythsthatprove. 3 роки тому +2

      ANY Year's BLACK History month excludes the rest of the human race just as St Patrick's day excludes the rest AS WELL so how bout feeling insulted because the truth is we are only the ONE human race and creation process decides the beautiful shapes and shades of the ONE human race> i say human history month is what is best to feel proud of and so i celebrate it > EVERY SINGLE MONTH.

    • @google12greekmythsthatprove.
      @google12greekmythsthatprove. 3 роки тому +1

      Human History fyi. Google: A Historical Account of the Conceptual Evolution of Satan in the Abrahamic Belief Traditions.
      Google: From Diamon to Demon: the Evolution of the Demon from Antiquity to Early Christianity.
      Google: Adam name etymology.
      Google: The female egg chooses the male/ not the other way around.
      Google: Why Moses did not write the Torah.
      Google: 194 Bible contradictions.
      Google:17-Quran contradictions.
      Google: Edward Austrain. Because passed down traditions can deceive.

    • @annefranciselizabeth3840
      @annefranciselizabeth3840 3 роки тому

      @@google12greekmythsthatprove. Ironically, it is the "contradictions" that makes the Bible so believable to me. Some of them are so obvious that anyone trying to concoct a story would have edited them out.

    • @google12greekmythsthatprove.
      @google12greekmythsthatprove. 3 роки тому

      @@annefranciselizabeth3840 No, HUMAN HISTORY is simply THAT and one can not have CONTRADICTIONS when it comes to the FACT that there never was a DEVIL or a DEMON or some HELL and in case you have not NOTICED it > the BIBLE and the Quran are BASED off FICTION not mixed up FACTS > how can one curse if there is no such thing as a DEVIL or a DEMON? Man made religions are not to even to be considered truth and would not hold up in the court of LAW because CONTRADICTION has a DEFINITION Google CONTRADICTION DEFINITION: ONE being > STATEMENTS of a position OPPOSITE to one ALREADY MADE so READ and STUDY for truths and not settle for lies unless you like being a PUPPET. CONTRADICTIONS means LIES and important TRUTHS are being HIDDEN from our HUMAN HISTORY and no matter the culture LIES are only DECEITE not ever TRUTH.

  • @Jojobreez
    @Jojobreez 2 місяці тому +1

    My Igbo people dance is number one

  • @diedrapayne6202
    @diedrapayne6202 4 роки тому +42

    Exceptional, beautiful and makes me miss Nigeria. The women are so lovely and sweet.

    • @thebaddest3452
      @thebaddest3452 4 роки тому

      Where are you from? Are nigerian abroad?

  • @DivineLightFitness
    @DivineLightFitness 3 роки тому +16

    This reminds me of The beautiful sound of Haitian carnival. Absolutely stunning music and dance.

    • @Alexis-ed8km
      @Alexis-ed8km 3 роки тому +4

      I've just learned that some of the slaves were from this area to Haiti

    • @Southernview3k
      @Southernview3k 3 роки тому +5

      @@Alexis-ed8km
      Yes, they're mostly from Igbo tribe.

    • @morenikefashina4433
      @morenikefashina4433 2 роки тому +5

      Most Africans in Diaspora that hailed from Nigerian regions were Igbo and Yoruba tribesmen.

  • @jenniiferpiiter8868
    @jenniiferpiiter8868 Рік тому +1

    Innoson motors !!! HALLELUYAH PRAISE THE LORD

  • @janshi876
    @janshi876 3 роки тому +3

    I was ready to listen fir a good hour when it ended Im

  • @azubuikechijioke7712
    @azubuikechijioke7712 11 місяців тому

    Watching you guys from Greece thesaloniki i love my tribe ❤

  • @raymonddagogo-johnson2134
    @raymonddagogo-johnson2134 5 років тому +19

    Wow wow wow, this is so cool, so soothing, so therapeutic and still makes you dance all at the same time.

  • @donaldblackmon36
    @donaldblackmon36 4 роки тому +8

    Oh this was so wonderful to see and hear. I hope the daughters marry well. Thank you for sharing.

  • @laurenclark1798
    @laurenclark1798 3 роки тому +10

    Just found out I’m 90% African!!!! I wanna come home so bad now that I know for sure I don’t belong in America!

  • @gilleserviteur812
    @gilleserviteur812 4 роки тому +9

    From Congo 🇨🇬

  • @thechorister
    @thechorister 2 роки тому

    Great 💪🏼💪🏼😊👍🙂 I watched this video without skipping any ads... Help creators by watching their ads👍... (only creators can understand)🙂🌹🌹.

  • @goldenvoix_
    @goldenvoix_ 3 роки тому +2

    I can't seize to watch dz vid always
    #amazon dancers

  • @sandiletukani
    @sandiletukani 3 роки тому +2

    Its great I'm From South Africa

  • @rebeccaemeka
    @rebeccaemeka Рік тому +2

    Megan the stallion dont have anything against this women...chaii see levels ❤❤

  • @Oma918
    @Oma918 Рік тому +2

    The literal meaning of “Ije Nwayo” is soft walk. The more in depth meaning is “a stress free journey”.

  • @Promiselifestylee
    @Promiselifestylee 3 роки тому +4

    Beautiful to watch 😍😍

  • @bt.437
    @bt.437 7 місяців тому

    Love this ❤

  • @dwighthoward3415
    @dwighthoward3415 2 роки тому

    I love these dancing girls & musicians 💓

  • @mabelgrundy1418
    @mabelgrundy1418 10 місяців тому

    Beautiful. Thank you

  • @raya6748
    @raya6748 2 роки тому +2

    Human beings. Real !!!!!

  • @cavaniatv5025
    @cavaniatv5025 3 роки тому +2

    Africa is freedom 🙌 from western slavery period

  • @frkalleidoscope4915
    @frkalleidoscope4915 3 роки тому +2

    Absolutly Lovely

  • @lawrenceakinwandebabatunde5522
    @lawrenceakinwandebabatunde5522 3 роки тому +1

    We are beautifully rich in culture. Good performance

  • @acquanellaogbemudia9930
    @acquanellaogbemudia9930 2 роки тому +1

    Awesome Thanks

  • @lesababy
    @lesababy 2 роки тому

    Handsome men beautiful ladies.

  • @shantahyche6025
    @shantahyche6025 3 роки тому +41

    I pray that my marriage will be as strong as their thighs!

  • @tiyapreciousjoyner475
    @tiyapreciousjoyner475 3 роки тому

    My Sisters I Love ❤️ you your beautiful Africans are beautiful PERIOD May Jesus Christ bless you forever I Love you all

  • @BriaLoveElias
    @BriaLoveElias 2 роки тому

    😍💞omg l luuuv their dance 💃

  • @blessingokharu4507
    @blessingokharu4507 3 роки тому +1

    Good job 😁😁

  • @obyoby5791
    @obyoby5791 5 років тому +5

    Amazing Performance 💪🏾

  • @oluchiuzorma340
    @oluchiuzorma340 3 роки тому +1

    My.people are. Great

  • @bt.437
    @bt.437 2 роки тому +1

    A very hard dance your legs have to be super strong and fit to perform this dance

  • @davidp9223
    @davidp9223 3 роки тому

    Wow...so beautiful

  • @dandamuxima
    @dandamuxima 3 роки тому +5

    Wonderful! In each different cultural manifestation from Mother Africa an insight comes to my mind. For instance, I can surely point the shakers in this video. We brazilians have a similar but small shaker that we call "caxixi". Caxixi has the same stetic appearance and we also make it from a kind of sisal and seeds. We use caxixi, ngoma and berimbau to conduct Capoeira, which is a dance/fight inherited by us from Bantu people.
    Thank you for sharing.
    Much love from Brazil
    P.S. by the way, how do you call these shakers in Igbo language?

    • @annefranciselizabeth3840
      @annefranciselizabeth3840 3 роки тому +2

      There are different names for different types of shakers but the most popular are the calabash or gourd shaker (ichaka) and the basket shaker (nyọ).

    • @dandamuxima
      @dandamuxima 3 роки тому +1

      @@annefranciselizabeth3840 Thank you, Sis 🖤🤲🏾

    • @ifeanyinwaneri8881
      @ifeanyinwaneri8881 2 роки тому +1

      We call it Ichaka

  • @jamicub39
    @jamicub39 4 роки тому +3

    Unity love we dance together one beat one heart. 12

  • @mylife2022
    @mylife2022 3 роки тому +1

    This is magic

  • @BishoujoMegami
    @BishoujoMegami 3 роки тому +3

    This is such a wonderfully simple but deeply cultural dance! Does anyone know what they're shouting during the dance?

    • @ADEP
      @ADEP  3 роки тому +2

      Watch the subtitles: "Ije Nwayo" means "go slowly" in Igbo

    • @BishoujoMegami
      @BishoujoMegami 3 роки тому

      @@ADEP good idea! I'll watch with subtitles. Wow really, thank you!

    • @sixbias719
      @sixbias719 3 роки тому

      They're simply saying 'walk slowly' more like a cat walk. The song is performed by female dancers only; adolescent girls.

  • @orangebluemoonstar541
    @orangebluemoonstar541 4 роки тому +14

    You can never learn this in USA...you must be village bound...in Nija

  • @spane5mixline
    @spane5mixline 5 років тому +5

    very dope

  • @Goddessconcept
    @Goddessconcept 4 роки тому +1

    Beautiful!!

  • @nosikeuduhirinwa3567
    @nosikeuduhirinwa3567 Рік тому

    Yes! This is Nwokorobo Dance in Ngor Okpala, Owerri.

  • @princechukwuebukaeri1764
    @princechukwuebukaeri1764 2 роки тому

    Shalom

  • @CrystalChi0maa
    @CrystalChi0maa 4 роки тому +4

    So incredibly beautiful. Dancer’s names please?

    • @ADEP
      @ADEP  4 роки тому +2

      We are currently working on preparing interviewers with all group members so that information will be available soon.

    • @ADEP
      @ADEP  4 роки тому +3

      The interviews with the dancers are now available. The lead dancer is Onyinye Ezema. Please search for "Agbani-Nguru" on UA-cam and all of the interviews and performances will come up.

    • @CrystalChi0maa
      @CrystalChi0maa 4 роки тому +4

      ​@@ADEP Thank you so much for your speedy response and the beautiful interviews you've uploaded. It was a joy to be introduced to the amazing ladies as well as the wonderful musicians who did such an extraordinary job in this performance! I am very grateful that you have created this channel. It's soo necessary for our people to see, preserve, and share these arts. I look forward to more captures of these beautiful expressions of our heritage. Abum onye Anambra myself so ọ na-enye m obi ụtọ rie ne, rie ne ịfụ ifa. 😍👏🏾 Much love, family! 💚

  • @schoc13
    @schoc13 Рік тому

    I would like to translate more of these dances to english

  • @adahemmanuel
    @adahemmanuel Рік тому

    How can I be a member, E kubana from Ogudu ojota lagos

  • @Mragdoll
    @Mragdoll 4 роки тому +1

    Amazing

  • @xunicahmarielashley9528
    @xunicahmarielashley9528 4 роки тому +1

    Nice😃😄😋😉

  • @brigittewoodard4582
    @brigittewoodard4582 4 роки тому +1

    This is nice how do I contact this group?

    • @ADEP
      @ADEP  4 роки тому +1

      Chief's number is +234-7081167277

  • @harsonopetrokimia8027
    @harsonopetrokimia8027 2 роки тому

    Sae sak estu niki

  • @themonstergroups
    @themonstergroups Рік тому

    Awesome.

  • @urennakarah2766
    @urennakarah2766 4 роки тому +1

  • @jeniferitam3746
    @jeniferitam3746 2 роки тому

    The dancer. Who sounds her voice is better than the lead dancer with the longer Horsetail

  • @ikechicoreralation
    @ikechicoreralation 3 роки тому

    💪🏿

  • @Desertrosesage
    @Desertrosesage 2 роки тому

    🥰

  • @Krayziie
    @Krayziie 3 роки тому

    In my country (kenya) our folk dances like for example for all the kenyan people watching this the kamba, mijikenda lugya and others and mostly almost all of them have a lot more moving so im not pretty familliar with this

  • @Bookfigures1
    @Bookfigures1 4 роки тому

    Where are the young men at

    • @ADEP
      @ADEP  4 роки тому +2

      Ikorodo is known as the "Maidens' Dance" so it typically danced by young unmarried women. However, today young men are also learning it in churches and schools. Here is an example: ua-cam.com/video/FWL3jGu-RGM/v-deo.html

    • @uzzyvick
      @uzzyvick 2 роки тому

      The young men usually have their own dances or they do the masquerades. The Igbo society in the past was highly stratified along the lines of gender and age and for this reason, they had an age grade political and cultural system.
      These units act independently, and have their own regulations, specific manifestations and unique roles they play in the Igbo society.
      For this reason, it is not uncommon when each of these units present themselves to the society, they more often than not, are more likely to be observed as some homogeneous units of these aforementioned strata, with the some defining performances among the concerned groups be it, in their traditional dances or other necessary cultural practices..
      Therefore, women groups are likely to project their own performances via their own strata and one way of doing this maybe in practising and creation of a unique dance which represents the perculiar culture of a community such performances are most often initiated from the young daughters at their prenuptial ages.
      The same can also, be said of the male units. The presence of the older men here maybe for commercial reasons. They were probably contracted for their versatility in playing the musical instruments or whole dance may have been created as a distinct commercial enterprise to provide entertainments and diversions during important traditional ceremonies.

  • @uchy8905
    @uchy8905 5 років тому +4

    This is not the original Ikorodu but they tried. The original is from Oba, Nsukka.

    • @ADEP
      @ADEP  5 років тому +3

      Do you mean Orba? We also have videos of that group

    • @ebusnneji5482
      @ebusnneji5482 4 роки тому +6

      Everyone has their own it's not a competition

    • @google12greekmythsthatprove.
      @google12greekmythsthatprove. 3 роки тому

      Kudos to origins.

    • @ebusnneji5482
      @ebusnneji5482 3 роки тому +2

      @@google12greekmythsthatprove. did ikorodo originate from Orba in udenu?
      It's just like saying ogene originated from aniocha or that masquerades originated from Izu ọgụ

    • @google12greekmythsthatprove.
      @google12greekmythsthatprove. 3 роки тому

      @@ebusnneji5482 Thank you for your response.

  • @catchupwitkgreen8055
    @catchupwitkgreen8055 4 роки тому +2

    I want to go to Africa so bad. My Culture. Ig:catchupwitk_

  • @blessedhebrew9289
    @blessedhebrew9289 3 роки тому +2

    The name Igbo means Hebrew but too many of my brethren prefer to be Nubian,African, or African American.

  • @StellaNickactress
    @StellaNickactress 5 років тому +7

    This is not how to danced ikorodo...please teach them how to keep our dance.it's..traditional dance our best cultural dance keep it how it's promote yout culture.

    • @racheljohnson7348
      @racheljohnson7348 5 років тому +3

      What was wrong with it?

    • @ifynwamma
      @ifynwamma 5 років тому +2

      This is Nkanu dance with ikorodo music

    • @StellaNickactress
      @StellaNickactress 5 років тому +4

      Ify help me tell them oh instead of them learning how to dance their own cultural music they're busy throwing away their culture and promoting another people's cultural dance.

    • @racheljohnson7348
      @racheljohnson7348 5 років тому

      @@ifynwamma Ok, thanks

    • @austinnwodoh5405
      @austinnwodoh5405 5 років тому +6

      Please allow them to dance they way the are capable

  • @anurishakulasekara8949
    @anurishakulasekara8949 Рік тому

    *

  • @jackiechan3509
    @jackiechan3509 2 роки тому +2

    hebrews

  • @StellaNickactress
    @StellaNickactress 4 роки тому

    This not how to to dance ikorodo.