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Singing and dancing has always been an integral part of Pacific cultures, it is a form of oratory history that has allowed Pacific cultures to survive throughout the years. The shifting of environments and contexts has caused these practices to change over time into what they are today. SCIS no. 5423738

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Artist unknown :O; Otaheitean, a strange musician this, he pipes with his nose! [London, ca 1790]

Artist unknown :O; Otaheitean, a strange musician this, he pipes with his nose! [London, ca 1790]

Shows a man in a loose red knee-length cape or robe, holding a flute about two feet long, and blowing through it with his nose. The image is loosely based on an engraving after Sydney Parkinson's '...

Drums across the lagoon

Drums across the lagoon

1960 National Film Unit documentary surveys the challenges of island life and the impact of modernity.

NZ Pacific Dance Festival opens in Auckland

Pacific dance talent was showcased in Auckland last night at the Pacific Dance Festival gala on Auckland's waterfront.

Tahiti

Hawai'i

COCO COLLECTORS - KING KAPISI

COCO COLLECTORS - KING KAPISI

The Meke Dance

black and white photograph 140 x 200 mm - l.l. in white on image: 6320 THE MEKE DANCE BURTON BROS. PROTECTED AUG.21.1899; below image in pencil l.r.: Rotuma W of Fiji Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tā...

Movement of Masi: barkcloth, recording, story and memory

Movement of Masi: barkcloth, recording, story and memory

To celebrate Fijian Language Week 2014, we invited Suva-based dance company ‘VOU’ to bring sound and dance into the Museum. They spent four days with us, and members of the local Fiji community, to...

Nesian Mystik. Nesian 101

Nesian Mystik. Nesian 101

Nesian Mystique perform “Nesian 101”. Starts with attractive female teacher in glasses with “Nesian 101” writtten on blackboard ... Funding: NZ On Air; Director: Luke Sharpe; Art Director: Antony F...

Annie Crummer and her father sing for Cook Islands Language Week

Annie Crummer and her father sing for Cook Islands Language Week

Annie Crummer and her father sing for Cook Islands Language Week at the RNZ Auckland studios.

Aue Taku Tane - Annie and Will Crummer

Aue Taku Tane - Annie and Will Crummer

Check out this Kuki Airani classic sung by the legendary Annie Crummer and her dad Will! Proving that musical talent runs in the family, The Crummers are joined by Selina and Pat to give this beaut...

Adeaze ft Aaradhna - Getting Stronger

Adeaze ft Aaradhna - Getting Stronger

The Classic 'Getting Stronger' by Adeaze and Aaradhna still serenading us in the 2020's and beyond ;)

Brown Girl by Aaradhna

Brown Girl by Aaradhna

Nick Bollinger discusses a soulful and personal set from Aaradhna.

How to dance Siva Samoa.

How to perform the Samoan war dance, Siva Tau.

SPFA - South Pacific Festival of Arts

SPFA - TONGAN cont'd from ID: 13612 - Question and answers. - explainations about song, bamboo chants and dance. - song and dance

Dance skirt

Elaborate costumes and body adornments are a key part of performances and festivities in the west Pacific. This skirt is part of the bilas (body decoration) worn by women in the Angoram area, East ...

Dance Belt

Elaborate costumes and body adornments are a key part of festivities in the west Pacific, such as singsing in Papua New Guinea (PNG). Men taking part in singsing might wear this dance belt, also kn...

Fuataimi's costume: Fulu moa (feather headpiece)

Fuataimi's costume: Fulu moa (feather headpiece)

This costume is from the Auckland Girls' Grammar School Samoan group that performed at the ASB Auckland Secondary Schools Māori and Pacific Islands Cultural Festival, or Polyfest, in Auckland, mid-...

Songbook

Check out some of the favourite songs of the Pacific sung by your favourite Island artists! Learn the lyrics; read the history, share the Island love. Click on the headings "Learn Traditional Songs...

Polynesian school children (probably Niuean) performing an action song. [P1-403-1965]

Polynesian school children (probably Niuean) performing an action song. [P1-403-1965]

Polynesian school children (probably Niuean) performing traditional action song.

Hawaiian Dance - Ke Kai o Kahiki, Merrie Monarch Festival 2009

Hawaiian Dance - Ke Kai o Kahiki, Merrie Monarch Festival 2009

Dancers from Ke Kai o Kahiki perform the Tū Oe - a traditional style of hula, or helo; winners of the Kāne Kahiko section in 2009. The Merrie Monarch Festival honors the legacy left by King David K...

Academy of Hawaiian Arts Wahine Kahiko 2015

Academy of Hawaiian Arts Wahine Kahiko 2015

Check out this amazing kahiko performed by the wahine from the Academy of Hawaiian Arts at the 2015 Merrie Monarch Festival! Of the 2 main types of hula, Hula Kahiko is performed without modern ins...

Hula performance: Hālau Nā Lei Kaumaka o ‘Uka

Hula performance: Hālau Nā Lei Kaumaka o ‘Uka

Join us as we welcome the reigning champions of the Merrie Monarch hula competition to give a free public performance. Come and share in hula and ‘olelo (discussion) with two incredible groups from...

The Grit and Grace of Hula

The Grit and Grace of Hula

Behind the grace and the sway there is grit, athleticism, and a knee-breaking, blister-inducing effort to leave everything you have on the dance floor. Every year, the best compete at the Merrie Mo...

Pacific Dance Festival 2018

Pacific Dance Festival 2018

Highlights from the 2018 Pacific Dance Festival held at the Mangere Arts Centre.

Islands of Light - South Pacific Dance

Islands of Light - South Pacific Dance

This short film celebrates three performances from the South Pacific; the sasa from Western Samoa, the ura pa'u (drum dance) from the Cook Islands, and the haka from Aotearoa. The sasa is an energe...

Samoa (1949) (W3471/16BW236)

Samoa (1949) (W3471/16BW236)

Western Samoa, Lotus Land of the Pacific, is administered by New Zealand under United Nations trusteeship. The Administration brings to the Samoans those European services which will benefit them, ...

Highlights from The Festival of Pacific Arts 2016 in Guahan (Guam)

Highlights from The Festival of Pacific Arts 2016 in Guahan (Guam)

Check out some of the highlights from this year's Festival of Pacific Arts held in Guam! Delegates from 27 Pacific nations converged onto Guam for two weeks to celebrate the large plethora of Pacif...

Drum like a Tahitian Boss

Drum like a Tahitian Boss

Check out Tiana the Tahitian vahine drummer as she takes you through some of the beats to get your hips shakin'! Like every Pacific dance form, the Tahitian drum is the heartbeat of heiva (Tahitian...

Tahiti Ora

TAHITI ORA The Coconet TV presents 'Heiva I Tahiti' a 4 part profile on 4 dance crews competing at the biggest Tahitian festival in the world. Part 4 brings the winners of Heiva 2014 "Tahiti Ora"

Two dancers in traditional dress at Banaba, Kiribati

Two dancers in traditional dress at Banaba, Kiribati

Dancers in traditional dress at Banaba, Kiribati. Photograph taken ca 1906 by Lilian Arundel. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Gelatin silver print 13.5 x 8...

Te bino

Dance preparation for Independence anniversary celebrations

Dance preparation for Independence anniversary celebrations

Te Mātārāe i Ōrehu - Waiata Tira 2020

Tribute by Te Mātārāe i Ōrehu to the victims claimed by the measles outbreak in Samoa 2019. A message reiterating the whakapapa shared between Tangata whenua and Tagata o le Moana.

How Polyfest survived double cancellation

How Polyfest survived double cancellation

While the speeches, song and siva at the world's largest Pacific cultural festival have fallen silent for another year, the celebration was very nearly silenced permanently. Polyfest was in financ...

In 2021 Aotearoa New Zealand marked 45 years of the iconic ASB Polyfest - Auckland Secondary Schools Māori and Pacific Islands cultural festival. Though the global Covid-19 pandemic threatened its ...

Israel Kamakawiwoʻole’s 61st Birthday - Somewhere Over the Rainbow

Israel Kamakawiwoʻole’s 61st Birthday - Somewhere Over the Rainbow

In honor of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month in the U.S., today’s Google Doodle celebrates the 61st birthday of native Hawaiian `ukulele player, singer-songwriter, and activist Israel “IZ™” Ka...

Island style: Dancing the Pacific

Island style: Dancing the Pacific

Exhibition at the Turnbull Gallery, Level 1, Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library Building, Corner of Molesworth & Aitken Streets, Wellington. This digital set is a selection of ima...

Screems from da Old Plantation

Screems from da Old Plantation

"Samoa mo Samoa!" — King Kapisi blends his Samoan roots with hip hop culture in this video, which was shot over three days on Samoa's ring roads — two days really, because as director Joe Lonie rec...

Dawn Raid

In 1998 two South Auckland students with a bootleg T-shirt business and an ear for talent formed Dawn Raid Entertainment. By 2005 Andy Murnane and Danny Leaosavai’i's stable of acts were representi...

Making Music - Deceptikonz

Making Music - Deceptikonz

Mareko, Savage and Alphrisk from Dawn Raid act Deceptikonz offer a rhyme filled hip hop primer in this episode from a series for secondary school music students. Their vision of hip hop has little ...

Aaradhna 'Brown Girl'

Aaradhna 'Brown Girl'

Aaradhna joins Sam Wicks in the RNZ studio to discuss her new album 'Brown Girl', the track of the same name and the issues that go along with it.

Getting Stronger

Getting Stronger

This "infectious, platinum-certified slow jam" (according to music writer Martyn Pepperell) introduced the voice of Samoan-Indian singer Aaradhna. Her pairing with popular R&B duo Adeaze was a numb...

Pacific childrens music

Songs for children in a range of Pacific languages including Te Reo Māori. Great for beginners to the languages of the Pacific.

Isa Lei (Fijian farewell song) - Junior Soqeta

Isa Lei (Fijian farewell song) - Junior Soqeta

Junior Soqeta performs this beautiful traditional song of farewell that Fijians sing to departing visitors - "Isa Lei". The late turaga bale na Tui Nayau, Ratu Tevita Uluilakeba (father of Ratu Sir...

Polynesian school children (probably Niuean) performing an action song. [P1-402-1964]

Polynesian school children (probably Niuean) performing an action song. [P1-402-1964]

Polynesian school children (probably Niuean) performing traditional action song. Performance is on rugby field. Traditional fale in background.

Pacific Festivals

Pacific Festivals

From the magic of Maeva Nui, the heka vela of Heiva and the pulpitating Pacific Arts Festival, here are festival highlights from different Pacific nations!

Symphony of drums

A demonstration of Cook Island drumming.

The Palace - First Episode

The Palace - First Episode

This Māori Television series follows South Auckland dance crew The Palace as they prepare for the World Hip Hop Dance Championships, and a shot at their fourth title. This first episode films open ...

Pacific Dance Costumes Explained | Cultural Refresh

Pacific Dance Costumes Explained | Cultural Refresh

Straight from the bright stages of Polyfest, 4 cultural guides explain an important element in their island's dance costuming. Liana Vaipa Rice explains the Niuean Hihi (shell necklaces). Meile Sui...

How to Kiu Sa with the Sabeto Meke Group

How to Kiu Sa with the Sabeto Meke Group

Learn the ins and outs of performing “The Kiu Sa”( Fijian spear dance) with the Sabeto Meke Group. Meke is the term used for Fijian traditional style of dance. There are various styles of meke, suc...

Dancing Against San Francisco Bullets

Dancing Against San Francisco Bullets

Pelenise Faataui is the daughter of one of the first Samoans to settle in Bayview Hunters Point during the migration of Samoans through the Navy. Kirisimasi Faataui was a known Samoan community mem...

The journey of Te Vaka Takitumu NZ 2021 towards Te Maeva Nui

The journey of Te Vaka Takitumu NZ 2021 towards Te Maeva Nui

Benji Timu gives us an exclusive look into Te Vaka Takitumu groups journey to 'Te Maeva Nui NZ 2021'. The film introduces some of the performers of Takitumu NZ and gives us insight to the process i...

Isa Lei - A Remux

Blog surrounding the origins and transformations of the popular song Isa Lei.

Bunga

Rap collective SWIDT offer up a potent stream of spoken word poetry set to a jazz beat, and inspired by everyday and state racism — including the infamous Dawn Raids. The AMA and Pacific Music Awar...

Afio Ane Loa - Tree

Afio Ane Loa - Tree

The visuals to Tree Vaifale Manu's latest single 'Afio Ane Loa' a beautiful Samoan language track. Tree says of the song & music video - I dedicate this to ALL PACIFIC WOMAN! Our Grandmothers, Our...

PUA KIELE - Josh Tatofi

PUA KIELE - Josh Tatofi

Hawaiian singing sensation Josh Tatofi is one of a few Pacific artists to be nominated for a Grammy in the ‘Best Regional Roots Album’ category. This category is for albums containing at least 51 %...

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