In the ’60s, he visited Tahiti with family and friends, who started the tradition of throwing a Tahitian party every summer. Hana Andersen’s mother learned to dance.

ETHNICDANCE This dance group is called Te Mana O Te Ra, origin, Tahiti. The ethnic dance festival auditions at the Palace of Fine Arts. Event on 1/14/07 in San Francisco. Penni Gladstone / The ...

Travelers, who see vacation brochures with photos of grass skirts, coconut bras, Samoan fire-knife dancing and Tahitian hula dancers, naturally get the impression these are Hawaiian traditions.

Hips will shake, drums will beat and grass skirts will sway this weekend in Merced at an annual celebration that draws crowds from out of the area.

"We would do the Tahitian dance you know, the fast dance with the hips. I used to have a grass skirt that I could swish it up and so then people would see how you do it and clap, that gives you ...

Miss Washtenaw County Heather Kendrick impressed on the violin, and Miss Bay County Alana Wilson channeled her mother in a Hawaiian/Tahitian dance.

The show, entitled The Policeman’s Lot, was compered by Chief Inspector JF Jones and included a tribal dance by The Tahiti Truncheon Ensemble – eight constables, complete with grass skirts and ...

Nigel praised the dance and complimented Kent for underplaying the performance. Mia echoed my thoughts that she had hoped that this would be a good week for Adechike, and that it indeed was.