The Te Fa'a Nō Te 'Ori 2025 Tahitian Dance Festival is back this weekend in Stockton. Here's what to know about the Polynesian celebration event.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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STOCKTON — Something remarkable happened last weekend when a young woman from Stockton traveled to the Tahitian Islands to compete in the Ori Tahiti Nui world dance championships. She won. Competing ...

What do you do? I am the founding leader of Huraiti Mana, a Seattle-based, empowering Polynesian dance troupe; director of museum services at the Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American ...