The dance in Tahiti

Dance in Tahiti is known across the world.It is linked to the myth of "Nouvelle Cythère" (another name for Tahiti). In effect who can ignore the hip shaking of "vahine" with long hair adorned with odorous flowers or else virile dances of "tane" in impressive tattoos?

If one not misread therefore more these aspects of tahitian dance, its origin and the way of witch they played her before the arriving of the first Europeans is unfortunately never recalled, reducing dance to these some exotic plates.

The motives of this lacuna are various and notably linked to the ban of dance in Tahiti by the missionaries, ratified by Code Pomare in 1842. These condemned the sensual character of the choreography.

And, today this art is undergoing a renaissance in Polynesia. It seems interesting to try to reconstruct traditional dance, to go back to its true origin, to reinvigorate this art in the Tahitian society from which i comes and thereabouts of has dances it traditional.