Pāʻōʻā
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The pāʻōʻā (often written as paoa, as the Tahitian is not punctilious about writing accents), is a modern dance from Tahiti where the dancers sit on their knees in a circle on the ground, sing and tap with their hands on their thighs on the rhythm of the music, which is a quite repetitive scanning refrain. Selected members, one boy and one girl, dance inside the circle.[1] The whole scenario has something of a rooster fight (not common on Tahiti). Coincidentally the theme of the dance is usually from the hunt or from fishing.
References
[edit]- ^ "Types Of Dance". Travel Brain. Retrieved 10 August 2022.
Further reading
[edit]- Patrick O'Reilly; La danse à Tahiti
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