What are some of the traditional steps involved in the dance?
- Afata – box (hips hit in the shape of a box)
- Fa’arapu – stir hips fast circles (hips move around in fast circles)
- Fa’arori – Varu fa’arapu (you do a fa’arapu in the shape of figure eight)
- Fa’amenemene – Ami fa’arapu (you do a big ami and a fa’arapu at the same time)
- Ope – leg to the left & right (you put one leg out and push and the same to the other side)
- Ruru – freeze (sometimes refer to as a shimmy)
- Nu’utere Ne’e – duck walk
- Tamau – sway right, sway left (hips bump from side to side)
- Te’i – on toes
- Toma– double bump (hips hit twice to one side then twice to the other, also called Otamu)
- Varu – figure eight (hips move in the shape of a figure eight the in parallel to the floor)
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