Chooky Dancers 'Zorba the Greek' at the Art Gallery of NSW

[setarita]

Im not Greek OR an Indigenous Australian... But this makes me so proud to be a part of the human race.

Saw this at a uni lecture... probably the best thing I've seen AT uni!

lol Yasu!

[petogak1]

hello

[bundydog06]

The choreography is brilliant, but then it could just be a bunch of black fellas havin a good time, love you guys

[stephjay83]

I'm from the NT and I love these guys they make me so proud.

[Ari5Champion]

Im Greek and i love how they did their own intake on the Zorba Dance, its awesome, all i can say is that i love and OPA !!!

[possiblymitch]

just made me so proud...had tears in my eyes...going to forward this to my friends in Greece...

[khadija123367]

yes absoloutly



[webaroos]

In the late 18th century, there were between 350 and 750 aboriginal languages & dialects, today fewer than 150 languages remain, some having as little as 1000 speakers, A total of 2.5% of Australias population claim to be full or part aboriginal, what a unique race these people are, many of the performers here speak no English, so how can they offend Greeks & others?

[khadija123367]

its about their culture and what they are believe as well

[kev15483]

what is the music name ArtGalleryNSW please tell me

it is a test for music

[maxmillion99]

LOVE it!! Just saw the Chooky dancers on the back of the ute in "Bran Nue Dae" -- fantastic.

This is the best clip -- thanks for posting.

[kyriacos40]

I luve this it made my day.

[HAPPYthoughts4EVA]

@ thatrowl, are you Australian? If you are, do Australia a favor and go drown yourself in the pacific ocean

[webaroos]

Aussie at times grudgingly but mostly do love our aborigines, they are the best footballers, artists and athletes bar none, now also great choreographers & dancers, we Aussies understand the dance moves are inherent in their culture and the Zorba was done as a tribute to a Greek carer of a sister of one of the dancers. Also if we got some of the aborigine kids into the AIS as soccer players, we would win the next soccer world cup, no contest.

[kyriacos40]

@webaroos they seem to have some innocence about them that makes them real

[webaroos]

@kyriacos40 You are right, they are unaffected by technology and are guided by tradition as aborigines, an affinity with the land and animals is inbred into their psyche.

[Aqene1000]

You guys are Top Brass ! Now ltes get the Greeks to dance greek steps to some didgeridoo !

[Tommygoes2uni]

Stupid pricks; how did this become racist? It's entertainment. I'm a 17 year old boy and even I know that you need to grow the fuck up.

[Medic1555]

I'm a white American girl living in a southern state. Where I come from there is more white trash than black trash. It's all in how you believe in yourself. Just about anyone can overcome adversity. Why can't we see people as individuals who come from a given background with different experiences? Get a grip and cut the racist BS. Take the video for what it's worth - entertainment with talent.

[thatrowl]

@Medic1555 yes, thats because the southern septics used to hate the niggers, now because of your entire country being enveloped in the disgusting , homosexual, tolerant obnoxious attention plague that is your modern culture, your entire nations shit is now ruining the rest of the world, your non logical thinking and opposing ways are destroying this world, your race is a sub species of the white, whites have to suffer under the bullshit and oppression of tolerant people who bitch

[SoulOfSydney]

haha thats mad.. pats on the back..

[teemad]

Here you have a decades old piece of music taken from an old Greek musical, itself adopted from a classic 1940s Greek novel, remixed into a modern pop dance track, being used in a modern take of a dance, also taken from that musical, being performed by Australian Indigenous dancers. And it's all done humourously.

Who are these so-called Australians ranting on this page without a bloody sense of humour? No doubt xenophobic Christian Right and One Nation supporting ignoramuses.

[thatrowl]

@teemad no one cares what white people wrote, choreographed and then taught to them, the thing that matters is that theyrell all piss heads who are hanging out for enough money to get plastered, rob something and assault people

[teemad]

@thatrowl If you thought I cared what you think or do you're even thicker than your comments hint at.

[thatrowl]

@teemad wohoa , this one thinks hes funny!

[despoina1951]

this is great*****

[SourSherbet12]

ahaha this is great! i love it :) :) ♥

[MickAussieGuy]

this is great

[bananaman993]

everyone stop being racist im sick of them

[liepinshtein]

Please. SHUT. UP. The lot of you.

[rockstar99191]

im aboriginal (:

[X0ltare]

that was bloody awesome

we got some pretty cool stuff here in australia

:D

[qotsaandsoadfan1]

this is good , fuck all you racist morons who dont get it.

[XenolithExtremeProd]

This is EXTRAORDINARY well done and keep up the good work!!!!

[TheOBAMATRON]

Yep.

All the black folks have gotta do is wiggle their little finger to a new tune,and dance like puppets for the North Shore bourgeois intellectual elite at Unifarcity,and the screetching leftist cabal just wets themselves for all their cultural fetishes come true at once.

Here we have not only grass skirts being appreciated amoungst the high brow,but a combination of this,with the ancient sodomites of Greece.

The Arts crowd is nothing if not predictable.

I like black folks,but I HATE lefty

[CartervonRiedel]

What the fuck is this shit... talent???

[ThePianoPhenomenon]

@CartervonRiedel If people can scream for Justin Beiber and Lady Gaga, how are Chooky Dancers not talented? I thought they were really funny n entertaining compared to the metrosexuals on MTV.

[CartervonRiedel]

@ThePianoPhenomenon - actually.. well put my friend - I stand corrected!

[alexbomb1983]

In what way is this aboriginal, everything from the stage equipment to the cloth around your bare ass is from white people, even the song. One of your ugly fucking swine breed threw a bottle at me while I was walking down the street minding my own business 2 weeks ago. That's what these animals are really like.

[bananaman993]

@JellyFlavrdIceCream im aboriginal u racist prick

[JellyFlavrdIceCream]

@bananaman993 mad bro?

[bananaman993]

@alexbomb1983 oh yeah that makes us all swine breed cause one of us chucked a bottle at u i got ripped off by white people the other week doesnt mean i started calling them all ugly british invading pieces of shit now did i asshole

[thatrowl]

@bananaman993 thats because youre inferior. youre not allowed to bitch or youll get beat down

[bananaman993]

@thatrowl bullshit im not inferior i get good grades and live nice not in the mission and half of us like the elders didnt get a chance cause thay were taken from there family and had it hard there whole life but ive been around the sterotype and it sucks how i get followed around in a store and it shits me

[thatrowl]

@bananaman993 yeah fuck off you do all the blacks where i live dont rock up to school half the time and if they do its because of the police or its half way through the day. and getting followed stops you from stealing shit, thats the real reason it pisses you off

[bananaman993]

@thatrowl right cause im black u think u know me ur such bullshit jus cause some aboriginal pissed u off by hitting u or somthing so fuck u`

[thatrowl]

@bananaman993 ive only ever seen a few groups of aboriginals, i live in seychelles and the blacks we have are lazy criminals, they have no education and no jobs, theyre wastes, just like the aboriginals ive seen in melbourne

[bananaman993]

@thatrowl that doesnt mean every aboriginal is a waste my mum works i dont know my real dad and there are white people i know like a town of them cuz i live in that town there all closet pot smokers and critiziz the aboriginals who do it and it is messed up u got the kids with lice and living in poverty while the parents have money to blow on drugs but not everyone is like that take me i live nice and in a good neighbourhood and all the white people in our neighbourhood are dressed up trash

[RAGEof91]

@thatrowl stay in the seychelles, dipshit

[norelkysb]

Beautiful

[texniki1]

cheers from greece!we love australia!great dancing ALA greek style heheheheheh

[gerakilykos]

I'm really proud of you guys !!!! You really have the right spirit of a Greek ;)

[kahilu]

Lol the fat guy in the back is freaking Hilarious!!

[nikolaki1968]

Yiasoo, from Melbourne Australia. Poli Kala, to horo, pou kanane i mavri......

[1964Byron]

I am Greek and Ive seen Zorbas Ballet in the Athenian Opera, in the Parisian Opera, in ancient theatres and practically in every conceivable place but these guys make me really, really, really PROUD.

Greetings from Greece and may the Zorba spirit always lead your lives!

[Hoore500]

"I am Greek and Ive seen Zorbas Ballet in the Athenian Opera," --> Oh really, me I danced it with Coco in heaven.

[LordInksworth]

The Big Guy at the back - he's always right behind the leader, garawirrtja. The fat one - he's the man, the rock. He knows it inside out and does it perfectly, but the leader has the long thin body and limbs to make it look funny. I LOVE THE CHOOKY DANCERS. They make me smile.

[lindaweir1]

@LordInksworth I love the heavy set dancer too! He IS the rock! haha

[deannasxc21]

This is a funny video but the first video when u search is better

[emucentral]

We are laughing WITH them AT THEIR sense of humour.

Those blokes have not only the dance ability but the comedic skills to have a bit of fun at the same time.

I love the chooky dancers all the more for this, and I hope that they achieve success.

[emucentral]

I counted 26 positive comments, and 5 negative plus some irrelevant and deleted. Your definition of a majority is a bit skewed.

You might also watch the numerous other versions of the same blokes dancing and listen to the comments by their manager.

But sadly, Sam, you appear to have a condescending & racist attitude to our indigenous countrymen. They are "noble savages" of great and ancient culture, eh, and aren't allowed to have a sense of humour ?

[emucentral]

my "anglo countrymen" ?

Clearly you are the one who is making racist generalisations.

You just don't get it, do you ?

The chooky dancers performances are enjoyed by indigenous and non-indigenous Australians, as well as people around the world. They have combined what appears to be traditional Aboriginal dance moves, along with other ideas with a thoroughly non-indigenous tune.

Let me make it plain once again, ABORIGINALS ARE ALLOWED TO HAVE A SENSE OF HUMOUR.

[kyriacos40]

@emucentral I agree

[khadija123367]

i am not indigenous australian but i like it

[anchoviesyuk]

What does Harry Connick Jnr think of this?

[final0fantasy0fan]

Captain Falcon asked them the "Show Me Your Moves!"

This was his answer.

[victoriaanstee2004]

I expect everyone in PBN to be doing this version next week ok!!!!!!

[primpeg]

Coming from a Greek background, I am NOT offended at all. In fact I commend them. I know we as Greek don ttake offense to other races dancing our music and songs. If the Aboriginals do, then thats there business. If it is a cultural sensitive thing to do Aboriginal dancing then who are we to do it? GOOD ON YOU ALL FOR DOING THIS. GOD BLESS AUSTRALIA THE BEST COUNTRY ON EARTH

[AkitaTom]

These guys are really good, but the only thing that i find stupid is the fact that if a Greek person (for example) put on aboriginal music and started dancing to it, he/she would be called a racist and probably stabbed repeatedly. We really need to fix this one-way racism thing.

[kookoonutzz]

Gubba's are always crying woe is them and the blackfella are violent. Grow up. Aboriginals are placid people and it just goes to show how shows like 60 mins has you brain washed. they control your life. Aboriginals in Prison are there for petty reasons. Gubba's are in there for stabbings, rapes, murder, look up stats at the ABS. (oh dont stab me for that comment

[68mystiq]

bullshit Akitatom...u think all aboriginals go around stabbing ppl?...far out it dont matter wat music any1 does a dance to its all for fun an if u hadnt noticed...aboriginals welcome every other race to join them in there cultural dance an playing the didgeridoo...so dont assume things ok!! go to an aboriginal cultural event and u will see what i am talkin about...besides u may just learn sumthn!

[semosun]

you  are all stupid !!!

[Azzurradesigns]

HAHA AWESOME

[skrzn11]

hahaha. autralias funny (L)

[dmorons]

I really like and love this music and dance by Aboriginals.... I want to buy this particular song and video, where can i buy it?

[inseita]

superparodie zum schmunzeln!!!!!

[kennylondon123]

i have to apologise for LMAO...

i can't help but laughed @ the fat guy from the back row..he wobbles and shakes.. should think he'd roll over or somthin..haha!!

..but great dancing overall ..lol

[Dinorawrs01]

its called "Zorbas" :P i like the way they move xD

[tigadilier]

Very good ayy. lol

[opals1980]

hahahahahah watch when ur high on marijauna its more funnny u will never stop laughn then lol

[manamoomoo28]

Fucken wicked

[telegutza]

retardati complet??? da,da,asta e raspunsul:|

[bi2za]

hai ma ca s simpatici

[tigadilier]

I dunno what that means but it has the word Retard in it. They are AWESOME not retards.

[sarahh0769]

HAHA GOTTA LOVE THEM.

[Pinorsk]

hehehehehe

[xosxcjessieox]

aussie pride babay!

go boys we love you!

[hgel2009]

Fantastic! So funny - love the Aussie sense of humour. Who else could laugh at themselves they way we do! Go you Chooky Dancers!!

[TraceurTaine]

epic man xD,

[tstanton1969]

Love it!!! Puts the original Zorba to shame!

[jstampa4]

ludnica

[jstampa4]

ludnica

[gegaqezi]

awesome...keep it up guys, you're all really talented dancers...would love to see you live...

[ihatexerxes]

Certainly original, well done guys !!

[ThaliaKarag77]

what crap is that?? stupid idea!

[ejemajkej]

that isn't original Zorba...

...

..

this is much, much better xD

That's first time since 6 months, when I start crying and laughing in same time xD

[ynez59]

They have changed most of the dance steps. I prefer the one where they danced on a basketball court.

I still love this one though.  Keep it up guys.

[katudaniel]

very funny!!!! my compliments by italy......

[ChinaWarriors1]

I love theses guys! Brilliant!

[Zoootex]

this is too cool! I just saw them on the news dancing at some Sydney music festival, haha, really cool, love the rhythm.

[rammergramps]

Fantastic Keep it up guys

[true2mysoul]

deadly!!!! guys keep doin wat u do

[maddimo89]

BLOODY AWESOME!!

[doctortwyla]

Who's the dude in the blue shorts?!?!?1 he can move!