The movement of the feet is the proper way of doing the tau'olunga. I finally see a tau'olunga here on youtube with the feet moving side to side, which is the right way. There is a palooveape fkTonga 'oku pehee "Hangee ha fu'u niu afaangiaa." Ko e lau eni 'a e kau maatu'a Tongaa when the tau'olunga lady is not moving her feet side-to-side.
I have seen many women do the ta'olunga. This woman is a natural! Her face says it all! She like all other Polynesian dances tell the story not with just the hands, but with the face! I can watch her dance all day!
wow i haven't seen tau'olunga like this in a long time. to those that think the "foot movement" thing isn't tongan.... it is.. the tau'olunga is changing and unfortunately some do not know what the tau'olunga use to look like :(
i love it ! everything wit the eyebrow moves and the teki and kalo kalo movements. everything is traditional, HOW A REAL TAUOLUNGA SHOULD LOOK LIKE...love it lotss =]
@ro2ma I guess shes just dancing to the story that the song is telling (as a Tau'olunga should) hence the feet slapping to "pasi va'e pea ke vilo takai" which means to slap (or clap) the feet then turn around. The Samoan influence to this dance is also directly related to the story of the song which to my knowledge is called Sau'ilunga which is of samoan origin, and also features another samoan word "fa'ataupati" which means to constantly slap.
Yes the feet movement is tongan. My mum said back in the days they had to move their feet like that when they tauolunga. It's only nowadays that the tauolunga is changing sadly.
This is how you dance the real tongan dance.It's not samoan as others think. And the girl dancing is the daughter of Faifekau Etuate Moimoi. I know of these things because I have danced all my life in tongan and Etuate is my uncle. P.S.-Mal'ie mu'a!CHEEEHOOOO!SEUKE!
@ffpl01 fielau hono tala 'e palofita 'o Tonga 'a e ta'olunga ko e " milimilisino mo e mate " totoatu ta'ahine e folahaka pea mahino pe ho'o taukei he faiva ni.....
Its a mixture of Tongan and Samoan feet movements....she probly not full tongan, even a full tongan dont move their feet like dat....very nice tauolunga though..:)
she is full tongan thank you. May be you need to watch more of the tongan tauolunga so you can see how graceful, elegant they can be and also how they move their feet. thank you
Theres a huge difference. When Tongans move their feet in a tau'olunga it looks something like what she's doing. Samoans move their feet way different from what she's doing. Those feet movements she's doing is the only way you can move your feet in a Tongan tau'olunga. Of course other than walking, or slapping it.
