In a tiny gymnasium at Foisia Park in Carson, California, an eclectic group of women ranging in age from 14 to 56 line up in rows, ready for instruction at their first siva Samoa (Samoan dance) lesson ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Audrey Godoy, artistic director of Pacific Paradise Entertainment, works with students at Jackson High School to teach Tahitian ...

GRANADA HILLS, LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Lyn-Del Pedersen has been teaching students at Aloha Hula Polynesian Dance Studio in Granada Hills for over 15 years. "What we try to do is perpetuate the culture ...

Makamae Melia 'O Polynesia has spent 25 years sharing traditional Polynesian dance with the Elk Grove community.

Josephine Lealaitafea performs Taualuga on the first night of the Luau event. The Taualuga is a traditional Samoan dance performed at celebrations and weddings. (Jaycee Lundell) BYU’s annual Lu’au ...

Half a century ago, in a mostly white neighborhood in Buena Park, there lived a woman who had brown skin and didn’t speak any English. One day, her daughter’s high-school talent-show committee invited ...

The performers from each section of Luau return to the stage after completing their performance. The ballroom of the Wilkinson Student Center was standing room only as students, faculty and members of ...

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Tahiti Dance Fitness (TDF) is Singapore’s first Tahitian dance and exercise studio focussed on the vibrant and diverse moves from the French Polynesian dance, an exercise initiative brought over in ...