រៀនរាំរបាំតាហីទី-Learn the Tahitian Dance

Learn to dance Tahitian @ Polynesian Cutural Center, Hawaii, U.S.A. October 2007. Aloha & Mahalo!

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[Gille87]

@atoosas some have more rhythm than others, but rhythm can be taught u know. many people bc of culture are more stiff than others, but it doesn't mean that they have any rhythm inside them, they just need to learn to loosen up, and don't be shy! I live in Norway, and we are known for being stiff as whites in general! We don't have any dances that makes us move our hips or to isolate certain body parts so that's why some are more stiff than others, if they don't dance that is!

[Gille87]

well it's a bit racist to say that it's just b'cuz they are asian. Everybody got rythm, it's jsut that they have to elarn how to loozen up, and dare to be more out there. It's in their culture to be modest and not loud, that's why...and for the record, asians are good dancers! If not, then chek out me doing tahitian ori, and I'm a guy and ''asian''...

[lilskitzogrl]

please don't generalize a fault found in these audience participants to a whole racial category of dancers.

[atoosas]

At the gym where I take some dance lessons, there's this little old Asian woman who's been to every single class. She has absolutely no rhythm, but she's there every week.

Watching the "students" here, and seeing how most of them are Asian, I realized why. They don't know how to isolate. They use their whole body when they dance and rock back and forth, the way an infant would when learning to dance.

If I ever get to teach a class, isolation is the first thing I'll teach people.

[atoosas]

I actually started polynesian dancing two weeks ago. I initially had no interest in learning it, but my belly dance teacher at the gym has started taking hula lessons, and she's teaching us what she learned, and it's so much fun! I'm gaining a new appreciation for Polynesian dancing and will continue it when the series at the gym is over.

I'm glad I took belly dance, because doing this is not as hard as it would've been if I had no dance training.

[dinavienna]

i believe it s so different because it looks very pelvis/behind driven! in bellydancin even if it looks like you re movin the hip up and down, and side, you actually do A LOT with the obliques and other belly muscles. i guess that s where the name "belly dancin" comes from. the use of the belly in the movement makes it look"tamer" more internal i feel than more African or Pacific or Carribbean dances which use the behind a lot. if u watch "beautiful liar" and the hip circles there, see a diff.!

[AtiuanKoko]

wish they had the Cook Islands at the PCC

[atoosas]

One thing I'm confused about is how is this different from belly dancing? You seem to use the same muscles and techniques, but it looks so different. What are you doing with your hips?