Greetings Mahealani and World-Dancers,
I live in Vermont (northeast US) and have been practicing belly-dance since fall 2005. I purchased Mahea's "Ori" DVD some months ago and love it. I am fascinated and challenged by Tahitian and Polynesian dance and look forward to learning more about it here on tribe, but I'll probably mostly "lurk."

Thank you for creating this tribe, Mahea!
--Arabella

iaorana tatou,

i am haumana hula and a student of tahitian ori.
i have danced since i was 7 and i don't know another expression that brings me the joy that dance does. in another life i would have loved to study afro-haitian dance.... or even congalese but they're aren't currently enough hours in the day in my life! i would love to talk to others about their own ideas about how the dance form that they are in impacts their lives. there is a shirt that i have on today , reads : EAT, SLEEP, HULA
and you know, it's such a true statement.

mali'o