Raw Video: Marshall Islander Folk Dances at NWACC

This is the unedited video footage from a CNN I-Report. Northwest Arkansas Community College held an International Dance Festival on Saturday, Nov. 15, 2008 to kick off International Education Week.

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Education

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• Marshall
• Islands
• folk
• dance
• performing
• arts
• visual
• NWACC
• Arkansas

[mesalikatu14]

what lies!! one: not a traditional dance from back at home... two: you didn't make those dances up... three: get some lessons!! you guys made our dance look sooooo SLOPPY!!

[BarbRad42]

My name is Barbara Rademacher. I took the video of these girls. Please be merciful; they are young. I hope someone is teaching them, and that they will be able to pass on their folk dances to their own children. I am so happy you know the dances. Perhaps you could give lessons in your own community. Thank you for your comments.

[tanibebz]

This is defenatly not traditional dances back at home. But if you were to dance with a hawaiian song, pls dnt make anykind of movements without knowing the meaning of the words.that was the first rule of dancing hula. Im a marshallese that was a foster with a hawaiian family. I learned both sides of the customs. Just corrections on your verbal wordings. ill be humble and say great job though. to be having guts to dance in public. menin wot.

[myownyt1]

hey barbara u say that those girls r young!! well i say that theres alot of younger girls than them like 5 to 10 yrs old and they're better than that..oh n also thats not how we dance back home....

[MAckphieKouch]

No offense ak i been doing hula dancing and i think that they did good job they getting their. But if you want to represent the Marshall Island you guys should at least dance the dances we do back home and not another nations dance. We play at kemems and stuff ak it's not Marshallese TRADITIONAL dance. Men in wot keep awp with the good work and keep practicing you guys well do great.

[SuperKokkey]

Hemrina801- Seriously ! Omg :O are you hella messing wit mee ?, Dude ! Ya killed it. omg, what the mackrel ?. omgosh ! i cant even believe ya did this in the first place; aha ! funny :)

[tanibebz]

this is not a marshallese traditional dance.pls get that right AK girls!!! we are not hating on u.we're just tryin to get our "MANIT" straight... kom en ekatok jen ruto rane jinomi im jememi bwe jenjab lose i manit kein ad.!! & F.Y.I. before using a HAWAIIAN song.learn the meaning first cuz watever ur dancing dosnt match the words.thats really disrespectful to the hawaiian community!!! good work for the lady that shot this though.(:

[TOLN38]

@BarbRad42 Hey Barbara gotta say >> u did good job takin video of these girls dancing.........people might say its not marshallese traditional dance but they do it often at any marshallese birthday parties whice make one of da marshallese second traditional dance nd they still do it back at home..btw they did AWESOME eheh...:D one love

[89Virus89]

So much hate these comments.. Awesome job, but this isn't Marshallese dance lol.

[epedro05]

for all the ribelles up in hea talkin sum ish like this was nice and all dat garbage, we marshallese aint concern about the damn dances, we making a point that these are not traditional dances...i myself am part tokelauan (which is one of the languages featured in da mix) and i would say that the girls did a good job on the dancing. The real issue is that our islands, Marshall Islands, are being misrepresented in this manner...so to all the rimajol, big ups and all the rebelle, shut da hell up!

[2012lover1]

i think they to it perfect............... and i think they really made it up is kind of difference that the other girl when they dance...right

[steadymobsta]

dis aint remotely close to marshallese traditional dances .. how ignorant .. ya'll could of done da JABWA at least .. and may i add ya'll were a wee bit off beat