Simply beautiful 🤌🏽 So much grace and love seen through your dancing, loved the ending tho 😂 Gotta have some fun with it 😁 My most fondest and happiest memories was dancing & performing. Well done girls, you done your nana proud 🙌🏽
@@mokafotu the first song is Tangi Ke and the second song is Manea, she just mixed it in from the fast beat of the song and then it goes back into the choruses. Then the band just start playing their random beat and strum.
Great dance but why do people come up to hug u guys during your performance? I saw several other videos where this happened. Thanks so much. What a beautiful culture
Thank you and thanks for the question. In many pacific cultures it’s a way of families showing their love for the dancers and their families. We put money on them and Lolly necklaces to show our pride and to encourage them (the dancers) to continue learning and upholding our cultural traditions. When they feel our love and receive money, they associate that joy with our culture and who we are, and they learn from a young age to love it. It’s rather distracting but the dance is not really for our entertainment, it’s their expression of love for their nana, their family and their island. So we don’t really need to watch it uninterrupted, we just feel the spirit of joy, love and pride as everything unfolds. And that’s why we dance for our loved ones, to fill their hearts with pride. It draws families close and keeps us connected.
