Have you ever attended a Polynesian show where you saw some dancers dance making very fast circular movements with their hips? do you want to know how to do it? It's very simple. This dance is called 'Tamure'.
Steps
Step 1. Flex your knees during the movements and keep your shoulders still
Step 2. Push your hips out in a circular motion from left to back and then right to forward
It has to be a continuous movement… This first step is called Ami. You look for slow and regular… Now try to the right.
Step 3. Tairi Tamau
Bend your knees and keep your shoulders STILL again. Bring your right knee back so that your right hip is gently pushed out. Now do it with your left knee to get the same result with your left hip. Alternate left, right, left, right with fluidity in the movements.
Step 4. Tairi Tama
Similar to step 3, but the movements become faster and sharper. Snap your right knee back and then your left knee to snap your hips to the sides. Keep your knees bent and shoulders steady. Lowered.
Step 5. Varu is fun
It is like a figure 8. Slowly and gently push the right hip forward and then to the right, then move the left hip forward and then to the left, continue alternating movements making a figure in the shape of 8.
Step 6. Otamu is a BOX
Snap the right hip forward and then to the right and repeat with the left hip. Imagine you are standing on a box. The hips must hit the corners one at a time. 1 2 3 4!
Step 7. Now the most important and difficult step
Fa'arapu! This is the impressive movement that the Luau make when you look at them. We all have a direction in which the hips move best. For example, they could easily move clockwise but hardly anti-clockwise. Then start AGAIN by bending your knees and keeping your shoulders still. Push your hips in a slow circular motion (AMI) and then increase the speed more and more. Try the other direction. Make sure that the circle is consistent, uniform and that you don't favor a single sense of rotation. Keep training !!
Step 8. Now try all the steps on tiptoe
It's called TEKI (tay-kee)
Step 9. Now bend your knees so that you are with your lower back on your heels and repeat all the steps listed above
This is called TEFINE (Tay-fee-nay)
