LAGUNA NIGUEL – An old home video shows 3-year-old Hana Andersen swaying her arms and hips during a family trip to Tahiti. Since then, Andersen’s never really stopped dancing, and last month the ...

Heartbeat of Tahiti: AAPI heritage through dance The powerful sounds of Tahitian percussion have carried legends, and ancestry for centuries. Matahani Tahitian Dance Studio, with locations in Concord ...

Competitive Tahitian dance, or ‘Ori Tahiti, is a lot harder than it looks. Though it was legally banned and deemed indecent in the 19th century, Tahitian dance has grown to become an internationally ...

Next year, Tahiti will be home to the surfing competition of the Paris Olympics, almost 10,000 miles away from France. But the region has its own annual games, known as the Heiva. Toakura, the ...