Teaching Children
Teaching dance to children, especially young children, requires specific educational skills. Here again, there are two options from which parents may choose. The Nursery Option (Keeps children...
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Choosing the Correct Dance Instructor
There are good Tahitian dance instructors all over the world. There are also very bad teachers, to say the least. Tahitian dance instruction has become a lucrative business and many people use it as...
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Tahitian Dance Fundamentals
There are two basic movements in Tahitian dance: tahiri (sometimes spelled “tairi”) and tatue, which is also called otamu. The five basic steps involved in Ori Tahiti, as they are taught in the...
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Basic Techniques: Tahiri and Otamu
Tahitian dance is becoming a popular practice around the world, but the truth remains that most dancers did not learn their technique from Polynesia. The majority of Tahitian dancers have been...
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Positioning, Foot Supports, Body Weight Transfer
Correctly executing both Tahiri and Otamu is the key to a student’s progress. Tahiri is the ordinary lateral swing of the hips, and Otamu is the pelvis retroversion. In the current Tahitian...
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