Video Find of the Day
So I was just talking about European influences on Polynesia. Here we have something called Breizh Polynesia. Breizh, if you recall is Britannic Celt for Brittany, France. So what we have is evidence of an interest in Tahitian dance in Celtic France. Why not?
If you're wondering where Lorient is, it's a port city on the Atlantic. If you think of the sticky-outy part of France as a nose, Lorient guards the left nostril.
Breizh Polynesia Lorient
Showing posts with label Tahitian. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tahitian. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
It's All in the Knees
Video Find of the Day
-- that's what they tell me. Damn my arthritis! I could be doing this.
TAHITIAN DANCE -- Corinne @ EHS
TAHITIAN DANCE -- CORINNE
-- that's what they tell me. Damn my arthritis! I could be doing this.
TAHITIAN DANCE -- Corinne @ EHS
TAHITIAN DANCE -- CORINNE
Saturday, August 16, 2008
Gospel Singing, Tahitian Style
Video Find of the Day
Polyphonic song in the service of the Lord, in the Tahitian language. Throughout Polynesia Himene means Christian hymns in the native language. The word is borrowed from the word "hymn", but the music is always only half European. In this case, as these are Tahitians, the European half is mainly French. I believe I can hear the French influence in Tahitian Himene as well as in most other Tahitian music. (Note that in the first and last video, all the singers are dressed just like French peasants from the period of Gauguin & Van Gogh.) I can also hear the ocean, which is never far away.
Tamarii Papara for Himene Tarava Tahiti at Heiva 1989
A humorous song, the description says, but I don't know what it's about yet:
Ute Arearea by Tamarii Rautea Heiva 1994
Tahaa I Te Pia Tarea for Himene Tarava Raromatai in 1989
Polyphonic song in the service of the Lord, in the Tahitian language. Throughout Polynesia Himene means Christian hymns in the native language. The word is borrowed from the word "hymn", but the music is always only half European. In this case, as these are Tahitians, the European half is mainly French. I believe I can hear the French influence in Tahitian Himene as well as in most other Tahitian music. (Note that in the first and last video, all the singers are dressed just like French peasants from the period of Gauguin & Van Gogh.) I can also hear the ocean, which is never far away.
Tamarii Papara for Himene Tarava Tahiti at Heiva 1989
A humorous song, the description says, but I don't know what it's about yet:
Ute Arearea by Tamarii Rautea Heiva 1994
Tahaa I Te Pia Tarea for Himene Tarava Raromatai in 1989
Sunday, October 7, 2007
Tahitian Dance Lessons
Video Find of the Day
A lesson in traditional Tahitian dance for women. If you watch this long enough you will know all the important moves to make when you are dancing! All you have to do is learn Tahitian to understand the instructions!
Tamouré pour Vahiné en une leçon
A lesson in traditional Tahitian dance for men. If you watch this long enough you will know all the important moves to make when you are dancing! All you have to do is learn Tahitian to understand the instructions!
Tamouré pour Tane en une leçon
A lesson in traditional Tahitian dance for women. If you watch this long enough you will know all the important moves to make when you are dancing! All you have to do is learn Tahitian to understand the instructions!
Tamouré pour Vahiné en une leçon
A lesson in traditional Tahitian dance for men. If you watch this long enough you will know all the important moves to make when you are dancing! All you have to do is learn Tahitian to understand the instructions!
Tamouré pour Tane en une leçon
Thursday, May 31, 2007
More Te Fare
Three more videos of Te Fare O Tamatoa, from Seattle Folklife, Memorial Day, May 28, 2007. First is one with the ladies in patterned blue gowns. Blue is alright. I don't care for green, but I can live with blue.
Next, drums, by teachers and students.
Third, the ladies are back in red skirts. Red is my favorite. I was taught by Lani and Lono that red was the first color, all the other came from red, that red was the most sacred color, because it's the color of a human soul.
Next, drums, by teachers and students.
Third, the ladies are back in red skirts. Red is my favorite. I was taught by Lani and Lono that red was the first color, all the other came from red, that red was the most sacred color, because it's the color of a human soul.
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
Te Fare O Tamatoa
Several videos of Te Fare O Tamatoa performing at Folklife Festival, Seattle, 5/28/07. This first one explains what Te Fare O Tamatoa is.
The second one proves the first wasn't good by accident.
No Polynesian dance show is complete without the little ones. Here's a couple tamari'i dancing.
Two more dances by the little ones.
The second one proves the first wasn't good by accident.
No Polynesian dance show is complete without the little ones. Here's a couple tamari'i dancing.
Two more dances by the little ones.
Monday, May 28, 2007
More Polynesian Dance
Tahitian dance by young man with group called Ke Liko A'e O Lei Lehua. This time I remembered the name of the group, with the help of Anitra. Seattle Folklife Festival, May 27, 2007. Hopefully the next day's videos won't be so washed out.
Same group. This time it's a young woman.
Same group. This time it's a young woman.
Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Mexican Lunch -- Tahitian Music
I get a chance to video myself and 9 of the other usual suspects of Real Change, at a lunch party held at Mama's Mexican down the street. The party is in honor of the man in the blue knit hat, vendor Robert Hansen. We won't be paying him to be a Vendor Rep anymore, so to make nice we're buying him lunch while subjecting him to our company. The others, as the camera sweeps right are reporter Cydney G, vendor and editorial committee member August M, editorial manager Adam H, crack intern Danina G, Director of Ops Craig K, Office Manager and Volunteer Coordinator Brooke K, Glorious Leader Timothy H, and fellow ed committee sweetie Anitra F.
Had it not been for Robert and Cydney making faces at the camera, I was planning to call this "Still Life With Mexican Food Eaters." Then, when they all left while I insisted on finishing without asking for a doggy bag, I thought I would call it "People Who Leave Me At A Restaurant So I Can Clean Off Their Plates And Drink What's Left Of Anitra's Beer In Refreshing Solitude." But that was too long.
I added the Tahitian Dance of the Children cause it seemed to fit the mood. Or I should say, it fit my mood. As usual I'm the one doing all the giggling.
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