Dancing for the Amazon
Chief Putanny is the first woman to lead the Yawanawá people. She dances to protect the forest and to build a women’s leadership summit in the Amazon.
1 Billion Hearts presents
We Speak
Dance
Trained dancer Vandana Hart travels the world to learn its dances from the people who keep them alive.
Season 2 launches 1 Million Women Dance. Join the movement
Season 1
Five places, five ways of moving
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1
Lagos
The revolutionary spirit of Afrobeat is still alive in Lagos. Vandana follows the street dancers and meets Femi Kuti, son of Fela.
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2
Vietnam
Vietnam’s economy is booming and the way people dance is changing with it, from the moonwalk to professional pole dance.
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3
Beirut
In a city of extremes, dance is what people share. Vandana goes to a wedding, a refugee camp and a nightclub where belly dancers take the floor.
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4
Bali
On one island, sacred movement sits right next to hip-hop collaborations and ecstatic dance parties.
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5
Paris
Paris dances ballet and burlesque, walks vogue balls and throws down in hip-hop battles.
Creator and host
Vandana Hart
Vandana is a trained dancer. In every place she finds the people who carry a dance and asks them to teach her.
She has spoken at the United Nations General Assembly, COP26, COP30, Facebook HQ and YPO.
Season 2 · In production
Season 2 hands the floor to women.
Half the season follows women fighting for their rights, their land and their people. It opens in the Amazon and launches 1 Million Women Dance.
“Dance is a universal spirit.”
Chief Putanny Yawanawá
The breakers of Morocco
Breaking in Morocco was a boys’ game. These women never asked permission.
South Africa
Moving for racial justice
With Ndaba Mandela, a new generation takes the fight for racial justice to the dance floor.
The powwow
Acosia, jingle dress dancer and national powwow champion. More than 100 Indigenous cultures in one arena.
The women of the favelas
With MC Rebecca, Afro-Brazilian women turn the culture they built into power, income and pride.
From the Season 2 shoot
An invitation from the Amazon
Vandana Hart and Chief Putanny invite a million women to dance.
The movement Season 2 starts
1 Million Women Dance
Every woman has a dream. Now she has a Dance.
A global community of women dancing for the dreams that change our families, our lands and our world. Joining is free, and you are never dancing alone.