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Madeleine Teroroheiarii Moua (5 April 1899 - 16 November 1989) was a French Polynesian dance troupe leader and major choreographer of Tahitian dance. She was the founder of the Heiva troupe. She was descended from the Tahitian royal family.
Tāmūrē is a foreign word, the name of a fish in the Tuamotu, the real name of the dance is ʻori Tahiti (Tahitian dance). [citation needed] Shortly after the World War II a soldier of the Pacific battalion, Louis Martin, wrote a song on a classic rhythm in which he used the word tāmūrē quite often as a tra-la-la. He afterward was known as ...
The Kahuku High School "Red Raiders" football team may have been the first American sports team to regularly perform a haka, doing so since 2001. [4] [5] The town of Kahuku is located just north of Laie, Hawaii, the home of Brigham Young University-Hawaii, which has many international students, including Polynesians from throughout the South Pacific, and both the student body and local ...
The stories depicted by the dance are taken from daily traditional occupations or ancient myths. Unlike the other Tahitian dances, this one is more often performed with the dancers dressed in pāreu and maro. It can also (especially the ʻaparima vāvā) be performed seated, much like the Tongan māʻuluʻulu.
Fijian dance (4 P) H. Haka (6 P) S. Samoan dances (7 P) T. Dances of Tahiti (7 P) Dances of Tonga (9 P) Pages in category "Dances of Polynesia"
This frame grab taken from a New Zealand Parliament TV feed dated November 14, 2024 and released via AFPTV on November 15 shows Maori lawmakers performing the Haka, a traditional ceremonial dance ...
The Taualuga is a traditional Samoan dance, considered the apex of Samoan performance art forms and the centerpiece of the Culture of Samoa. This dance form has been adopted and adapted throughout western Polynesia, most notably in Samoa, The Kingdom of Tonga, Uvea, Futuna, and Tokelau. [1] The renowned Tongan version is called the tau'olunga.
'ote'a group dance. The ʻōteʻa (usually written as otea) is a traditional dance from Tahiti characterized by a rapid hip-shaking motion to percussion accompaniment. The dancers, standing in several rows, may be further choreographed to execute different figures (including tamau, varu, otamu, ami, and fa'arapu [1]) while maintaining the hip-shaking.