Saw your now deleted video on you tube. WOW!! What ever your'e teaching isn't hula or ori tahiti. It is terrible that people are paying you money for this.
August 2019
I am highly offended that your customers think this authentic. WOW! I understand entertaining as a party and such, BUT teaching classes? It takes an 'olapa (DANCER) years to iniki (graduate) and become kumu hula (hula teacher). Then, they begin their halau (hula group) and teach. To just wake and say, hey I'm going to teach hula does not sit right with me. Do you even 'olelo (speak Hawaiian)? Do you know the kauna (meaning of the words)? SHAME! And SO EXPENSIVE!
August 2018
If you are wanting some of the most inauthentic Polynesian performances you could possibly find, look no further! After watching the videos that this company posted on YouTube (and then took down with a quickness after it got downvoted into oblivion), I hope that no one who books these people comes away thinking that their choreography is even a remotely accurate interpretation of Hula or Ori Tahiti. I get it, the movie Moana made Polynesian culture popular with the kids and also with adults, but this company could at least attempt to have some sort cultural integrity. Instead they choreograph a terrible mish-mash of belly dance, burlesque, hula and ori together to create... read full review
Saw your now deleted video on you tube. WOW!! What ever your'e teaching isn't hula or ori tahiti. It is terrible that people are paying you money for this.
I am highly offended that your customers think this authentic. WOW! I understand entertaining as a party and such, BUT teaching classes? It takes an 'olapa (DANCER) years to iniki (graduate) and become kumu hula (hula teacher). Then, they begin their halau (hula group) and teach. To just wake and say, hey I'm going to teach hula does not sit right with me. Do you even 'olelo (speak Hawaiian)? Do you know the kauna (meaning of the words)? SHAME! And SO EXPENSIVE!
If you are wanting some of the most inauthentic Polynesian performances you could possibly find, look no further! After watching the videos that this company posted on YouTube (and then took down with a quickness after it got downvoted into oblivion), I hope that no one who books these people comes away thinking that their choreography is even a remotely accurate interpretation of Hula or Ori Tahiti. I get it, the movie Moana made Polynesian culture popular with the kids and also with adults, but this company could at least attempt to have some sort cultural integrity. Instead they choreograph a terrible mish-mash of belly dance, burlesque, hula and ori together to create... read full review