The fast, hip-shaking dance of Tahiti is taking off around the world, with thousands of women taking classes and competing Wearing intricate costumes made of plants and adorned with tropical flowers, ...

Last fall, when Sarah Mendoza posted a video of her fellow dancers from Te Varua Ori on Facebook, she simply wanted to promote the decade-old troupe by showing their regular warm-up routine. The clip ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. The traditional Tahitian dance known as Ori Tahiti — involving fast movements, lots of hip-shaking and ...

Day-j Mahana Gemmel and Taina McClutchie bring Tahitian dance to Flaxmere. A Tahitian dance class run out of the Flaxmere Community Centre has been bringing together people from different backgrounds ...

Tahiti Dance Fitness (TDF) is Singapore’s first Tahitian dance and exercise studio focussed on the vibrant and diverse moves from the French Polynesian dance, an exercise initiative brought over in ...

STOCKTON — Something remarkable happened last weekend when a young woman from Stockton traveled to the Tahitian Islands to compete in the Ori Tahiti Nui world dance championships. She won. Competing ...

COURTESY WILLIAM KYOUNGYONG JEE The dancers of the group Tamatoa of Kaneohe wear white flowers around their necks and traditional ti leaf skirts and chest pieces. COURTESY WILLIAM KYOUNGYONG JEE ...

“Tahitian dance is all about the legs,” he adds. That much is obvious when you watch the show. From the men performing the paoti move — which is a “scissor” movement of the legs — to when the women ...