Traditional Dance: Ori Tahiti Over the past decades, the practice of dance has been developed, generalized and, in other words, democratized. Using the body as a means of personal expression,…
TRADITIONAL INSTRUMENTS Today’s orchestras use percussion and stringed instruments. Among the percussion is the to’ere; the pahu with two skins and beaten with a stick and the pahu tupa’i rima,…
Tahitian Culture In pre-European Polynesia, dances ‘were many and varied’ but little else is known about them. All we know is that both men and women danced, together or separately.…
Handcrafts The skills of the ancestors’ artistry are kept sacred and passed on by both the “mamas,” the guardians of tradition and the matriarchs of Tahitian society as well as…
Tamure by Heia was last modified: October 23rd, 2015 by Tiare
The famous group [button color=red size=small link=https://www.facebook.com/pages/Tahiti-Ora-by-Tumata-Robinson/232268760156931?fref=ts]TAHITI ORA[/button], winner of the Heiva i Tahiti 2011 and 2014 in the professional category (HURA TAU) and directed by Tumata Robinson, had the…