PolyFest '08 - Cook Islands Stage: Pt.1

KIA ORANA & WARM PACIFIC GREETINGS!
All the action and the behind-the-scenes trials and tribulations from the Cook Islands stage at PolyFest '08.
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[KKS685]

so proud to be ISLANDER

[niuean2035]

she's not saying cookisland dancing is lazy, im sure she means, since its a cookisland stage! perform, present the cookisland way....dancing straight butts not washing machine!!

and theres nothing wrong dancing like tahitians!!

evryone has been taught there own way by moms, untys, grandmothers...etc

so wateva or howeva you dance....remember who your representing not just your skool but the culture itself!!

[Gille87]

I'm sorry but people really need to get their heads out of their ignorant and self centered asses, and get some knowledge in stead! A lot of u talk shit about Ori, but do u dance Ori? NO! Do u really know the proper way to do it? NO! Do u know any Tahitians at all? NO! So instead of talk trash and tell lies, get ur self some facts...i

[Gille87]

Lol the lady is so wrong, Doing Tamure has nothing to do with being sexy, poor ignorant woman! It's Hura in Tahiti, and Ura in the Cook Islands, it's usually said Ori Tahiti, or also Tamure...btw the washing machine has nothing to do w Ori either, dunno were they got that from! Bc to fa'arapu, u have to move the hips around fast in a large circle to get that movement, we call that a ''full fa'arapu'' bc u push ur hips evenly all the way around while u bend ur knees, and push equally!

[parz234]

@Lharry127 yahu yhu know dotz how we doze idz!

[Lharry127]

O.C wattt mahn wea sooooooo happy that we came 2nd over all cheehoo!!!!!!!!!!!!!

But i jus wana say 2 all the ada colleges that we had the compition with on the cook island stage we had a lot of fun.

Kia Orana to u all and kakite ra.

MWAHZZZZZZZZ..........

[N3LLZZ]

how do they move there hips really fast? it must get tiering, ive tryed it. i must be just unfit =/

[MrCookies05]

LOVE THE COOKS

[KCHIEFTAN]

true indeed.The Tahitians as well as several other islands including the Papuans had several native dances which were wither banned or belittled by the missionaries during the 18/19th ceunturies because they looked too "sexual", when actually they had nothing to do with that.This has presently created some identity problems for some islands including Tahiti which has looked to other Pacific Islands for inspiration-especially in dance.