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The name split dance comes from the habit that the performers split up in two (or more) groups, one entering the stage from the left, the other from the right, [2] until the two meet in the centre and merge into one or more rows. The performers are always girls, it is rare that boys will join. The dance movements are in essence very simple and ...
The group of people performing a haka is referred to as a kapa haka (kapa meaning group or team, and also rank or row). [14] The Māori word haka has cognates in other Polynesian languages, for example: Samoan saʻa (), Tokelauan haka, Rarotongan ʻaka, Hawaiian haʻa, Marquesan haka, meaning 'to be short-legged' or 'dance'; all from Proto-Polynesian saka, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian sakaŋ ...
Tongan Culture and History. THA Conference 1989. Canberra: Department of Pacific & Asian History, RSPacS, ANU. Bott, Elizabeth (1983). Tongan Society at the Time of Captain Cook's Visits: Discussions with Her Majesty Queen Salote Tupou. Honolulu: Univ Of Hawaii Press. ISBN 978-0-8248-0864-8. OCLC 234297388.
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The samba line dance is an example of a two-wall dance. While doing the "volte" step, the dancers turn 180 degrees to face a new wall. [citation needed] In a four-wall dance, the direction faced at the end of the sequence is 90 degrees to the right or left from the direction in which they faced at the beginning (quarter turn). As a result, the ...
The term comes from hālau, literally, "long house, as for canoes or hula instruction"; "meeting house" [1], and hula, a Polynesian dance form of the Hawaiian Islands. Today, a hālau hula is commonly known as a school or formal institution for hula where the primary responsibility of the people within the hālau is to perpetuate the cultural ...
Ryukyukoku Matsuri Daiko Hawaii (琉球國祭り太鼓ハワイ支部) is a chapter of the Okinawan Eisā taiko ensemble Ryukyukoku Matsuri Daiko. Often called RMD Hawaii for short, the chapter has branches on Oahu , Kauai , Maui and the Big Island of Hawaii in Kohala and Waimea .
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