Dances of Life (Maori excerpt)

This is an excerpt from a 55 min documentary we have shot for PBS. For nearly 50,000 years, dances and songs have been an expression of Pacific Islanders' origins, their journeys, their struggles - their very existence. These are their dance stories. The program journeys to five cultures: Maori (New Zealand), Samoan, Palauan, Chamorro (Guam), Kanak (New Caledonia), ...

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Film & Animation

Tags:

• Cameraman
• Maori
• Samoa
• Palau
• Chamorro
• Guam
• Kanak
• Caledonia
• Pacific
• Islands
• Dance
• Culture
• Ethnography
• Philippe Charluet

[korlesma]

And honestly, there is nothing shameful about this aspect of the culture. Instead it is interesting to see how a culture from hundreds or thousand of years ago is preserved and remained untouch.

[waferthin99]

My girlfriend is Maori and I'm Welsh hah:') Our kids are going to be the best rugby players in the freakin world!!!! :')!

[TheTramsganget]

I'm a maori :3 :)

[Iheartnihon]

I thank the movie Whale Rider that introduced me to a whole different part of the world I never thought to explore. I hope one day I could see their performance and this beautiful country one day. (^ ,^)

[Sethae]

@125axel125

Soviets did the same thing to whole east europe. This americanized western culture is more "peaceful", but doing cultural genocide nonetheless, it's destroying diversity on it's way, and if you won't budge, come the bombs. Me being white northern European. How did I learn my English? Imported TV, movies and music. It's not all bad, I just wish people would remember their past, because once all the myths and stories are forgotten, you're living them. Even the bad ones.

[125axel125]

Being an African American, this really saddens me, as our identities, language, religion, and culture have been broken, destroyed.

I wish I had a culture to hold onto, in the nonstop roiling pseudo-culture of American consumerism...

[waferthin99]

@LasSicc I'm 6ft2 size 14 I'm 14 stone and I play Number 8 and 2nd row from my college and local rugby team :L and she's pretty small she's rlly like girly :) but her dad is fuckin massive!!!

[akira543]

@123MRwolfe Cool bro. I think being Eskimo (Yupik or Inuit?) and Tlingit you would just feel a natural connection with other Indigenous culture more than most. Maori do share similarities with Indigenous people of the Americas, such as, an abiding affection and pride for their past, traditions and land. Shared histories of colonialism and displacement, political and present day issues etc.

[LasSicc]

@waferthin99 Yay!! I wonder if your son's would be skinny, I guess it would depend on you and your patner's build. My siblings and I are Maori/Welsh and we aren't exactly solid well my sister's and I aren't and my brother play's touch so his physical build is rather slim for speed and agility... hmm anyway Good Luck and I'm sure your children will be stunning like the rest of us Maori Yeh Boi... Doitz!

[123MRwolfe]

kk anybody can asnwer my question, i'm half eskimo and half tlingit which is a red skin tribe in Alaska, after i heard this for me first time this summer, my spirit energy is very drawn to this i don't know why, i believe in the past i was a Moira, if anybody has asnwers please message me.

[iwritemadonna]

this is hot. new zealand is my lastest obsession