Wow❤

I love Cook islanders

They have springs in their bodies❤

Wow he's a good dancer 🇨🇰🇨🇰

yes Rotuma, my nan is from rotuma married my great - grandfather on my father's side (Torres strait island man from Murry Island) . would love to connect with her family.

Awesome guys!!!

I lovely alot

Kia orana ia orana

Urooo ..!!

Go Rotuma go

I LOVE ROTUMANS..

Tamaiva CHAMPION Mateariki too good my bruh :)

OMG. CAN ROTUMANS DANCE LIKE THAT?!

Kaisoni.

wtf, they look samoan, the way they tie the pareo? are you sure they are the cook islanders

@lilianiscool3329

3 жыл бұрын

Us Cookislanders we tie the pareu the same as samoa

@Ambermindurs

2 ай бұрын

Idk if you didn’t know this but clearly brains ain’t there…. Polynesian are all ONE people they all started in Hawaii then migrated to other islands and made there own version of the Hawaiian language. King kalalakua created all Polynesian culture… hanse why we all look dress act the same…. Educate yourself.

That s in samoa

Girl at 3:25 is pretty

The washing machine hip dance is for Tahitian ori not cook islands. Cook islands is side to side but apparently they slowly copying the Tahitian dance WHICH IS COOL.

@thajeneral8867

5 жыл бұрын

LAZY.

@pennev

5 жыл бұрын

Really? I've grown up with that washing machine hip movement being apart of my culture for years upon years now. Passed down. The Hawaiians, Cook Islanders, and Tahitians have similar dance styles anyway. Unique in their own ways. I'll have to do more research on all dance histories. All are beautiful cultures.

@susanstory3373

4 жыл бұрын

Sorry Lovie,Tahiti is side to side Cook Island is washing machine 😂😂😂 nah jokes, Tahiti tip toe n move their whole body, where as Cook islands, flat feet and no shoulder moments. Side to side hips are for slow dance fast beat is washing machine. But both Islands has the similar dance, speaks and understand each other with unique dialect, we basically are the same, but tahiti is our big sister islands, dam we Cook Islands can understand few words of Samoan, Maori New Zealand or Chinese but can't speak it, so there you go, we where born breed with this Culture. Oh forgot some of us a Tahiti too by ancestors so we share our techniques n they share theirs.💕🌺😀

@neigedamour6411

4 жыл бұрын

Im Cook island born, grew up in Tahiti. Both families on each side are dance teachers. I stick to what I said lol. The tip toe isnt Tahitian ITS paumotu style. Even moving the whole body is paumotu, if you see tahitian move their entire body during a performance thats to tell a paumotu story. The side to side dance technic has its origines from the Incah, soon after Rurutu and Cook Islands adopted the side to side technic either slow or fast. Tahiti once again when it came to tell a story from the outer island of French Polynesia such as Rurutu island they use the side to side technic even in fast mode. The washing machine was originated from Middle east, later adopted by oceanians now called polynesians (either by Hawaiian, Cook Islanders, Tahitians ...etc etc). The best looking and very well performed washing machine technic is from Tahiti (not saying Cook islanders cannot perform well, but they only taught this technic in early 90 where as Tahiti was proven to have been taught this move before first missionaries arrived in Tahiti late 1600 then banned all cultural and traditions - late 1900 Tahiti gathered all the dances from each islands of French Polynesia. Tip toe dance and moving entire body from the Tuamotu, the Haka from Marquises, the Upa ori from Raromatai etc etc etc, they all gathered these technics in one ori of 2hours to show French governors). The Cook Islands never dance that fast back in the days. Even today during Cook Island practice dance I often hear the teachers correcting their dancers to never dance like Tahitians (the washing machine dance or the tip toe dance or to be too sensual). Saying Cook Islanders understand better Samoan language, Tongan etc etc the cousins language, is super cool but none of Kuki, Sa, Fijians, Tongans can understand better German, French, Italian, Spanish, Hongarian, Dutch, Portugese better than Tahitians and learn these language very easily, thats why its a must for tahitian and french studiants to learn 3European languages or Asian language in elementary school. Some things Tahitians and Hawaiians got from the Cook Islands is the ukulele or the Kamaka as Hawaiian call it (from a man named Kamaka, he was the first Hawaiian to make Ukulele in Hawaii, they now call it Kamaka). Ukulele originated from Middle east, but in the Pacific, it was found first in Aitutaki.

@neigedamour6411

4 жыл бұрын

@@thajeneral8867 YOUR MOM