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Today's speaker, cultural visionary Mark Bamuthi Joseph, asks us to consider some profound questions.

Is it possible to remember and forgive in our society today?

And if so, how does art make that possible?

In his 2024 talk, Mark shares how his work digs into these questions.

With the help of dancer and New York City Ballet artistic director Wendy Whelan, this talk looks at how creativity and empathy are fundamentally connected and why art is necessary for our humanity.

That's coming up.

Elise here again.

I wanted to take a moment to describe what's happening on the TED stage right now.

Mark is continuing to tell a story and dancer Wendy Whelan walks on and begins to dance.

Together, they perform a piece from a larger work of theirs called Cuckoo.

Mark speaks and joins Wendy in movement at key moments during the rest of his story.

His words and their physical movements come together to form one unified piece of art.

So with that in mind, here's the rest of the talk.

That was Mark Bamuthi Joseph and Wendy Whelan at TED Next 2024.