Pacific Dance New Zealand fosters and encourages the development of the Pacific dance sector of New Zealand. We are involved in running dance workshops, conferences, community and professional events promoting Pacific dance in New Zealand.
Well done Tara; super proud of a young tamaita’i samoa you are🥰 And yes still remember that memories with your grandma and how she teach you how to dance🥰 Amazing girl. Malo lava faafetai.
Love this presentation....vinaka Maggie for your amazing work and sharing your beautiful culture. Vinakavalevu Pacific Dance NZ for giving us heritage artists the time and space to share.🙏
Ruatoka Materua, a missionary from the Cook Islands accompanied English missionaries to Papua New Guinea (PNG) in 1872. The English missionaries depended on him for advise and interpretation of some of the local dialects which he had quickly learnt. Ruatoka also taught the locals christian songs and dances. These songs and the genre of singing is called "peroveta" in PNG and to this day, is largely practiced by members of the United Church (which originated from LMS) in almost all the coastal villages in the Central Province of PNG.
Fa’afetai Tele lava Pacific Dance NZ for having me. It’s always beautiful to connect especially when you were the first festival to take a chance on me 🤎
