Tales of Taonga - The Tongan Tau’olunga
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- čas přidán 8. 09. 2019
- One of most treasured heritage art forms in the Pacific is our dance - and expression of our social roles, status, our joy for life and our soul. In Samoa and Tonga one of the most revered dances is the Tau'olunga - the dance of life.
"For me it's always an experience ... every time I perform it, it's a different feeling and it's a different moment. I'm dancing dances that were done by my grandmother and my auntys from back then" - Sesilia Pusiaki
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I may be samoan but I would always love pacific culture. Tongan,Samoan, Fijian, all our island culture i would always be proud to see and be gratefull that i look upon it.
omg thats my grandma lusila on the very left😳1:58
THAT'S WHAT'S UP!!
MALO TONGA!! AS FOR I, I AM SAMOAN, I REALLY ENJOY THIS CHANNEL, STRAIGHT UP. KEEPING PASEFIKA STRONG, AND NEVER FORGET YOUR ROOTS.
AMAZING! Loved watching the Tongan Dances and Culture in this video. Malo..🇹🇴
Beautiful singing and dancing! More documentaries like these!
The girls have such lovely voices--beautiful!
4:22 the Samoan taualuga isn’t about establishing status, it’s about sealing Samoan traditions and ancient practices in a very sacred manner with a performance from the Taupou whom is also held sacred. One of the many translations of Taualuga in Samoan is the ‘sacred climax’ and the Taupou ( male or female though most often female) represents that sacredness. Mālō 🇹🇴🇼🇸
She was somewhat right about it being about status. Ancient times, when performed during the Po ula, two parties would end with Taualuga’s and those who performed them had to be of the same status. For example, If the high chief of one party danced the Taualuga, the other party would have to have someone of the same status perform their Taualuga as to not insult the high chief having someone lower than him, such as a taupou or manaia, perform. Things obviously changed and we are less stringent on some aspects of our culture.
Uroooo ga Tonga bula from fiji cheers
Thank you for explaining the meaning of our Tauolunga. The joy of dancing is the feeling and put your heart into your dancing. N the foi va'e too haha
I love & respect this ♥️♥️
Man I love our culture💯 we are very expressive and traditional
Ofa atu from Sydney cuz @Sesilia Pusiaki ❤️❤️❤️
Beautiful.....
Love this!😍
This is beautiful!!!
Uh Yes, originally the status of the Sāmoan Taualuga dancer was VERY important. The Taualuga was a dance only reserved for the (in most cases) virgin daughter of the village chief, the Taupou. It was only when Christianity arrived did the restriction get lifted...and even then it took a long time.
I am half Tongan and half Hispanic but raised in America lol hoiiii... but it was very nice to learn a little bit about the history of our dance. My father was a dancer and toured from Tonga to japan, Fiji, Australia etc... and finally settled in Hawai’i. That’s where I am from. So I dance Hula and Tahitian but I never danced a Tauolunga before. It was interested learning about it. All my life my aunts used to tell me you have fo’i va’e you need to dance!!! Bahahaha now I believe them! Maybe it’s too much fo’i va’e... fu lahi... lol But I am wanting to get more aquatinted with my Tongan roots especially thru dance.
Malo aupito for the video and knowledge!!! (I know it’s not legit Tongan) I’m working on it! Haha
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Beautiful singing! Anyone know the names of songs or the lyrics?
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Nice toatu
No offense to those on this show "COCONET TV" but everything said here is partially true. I'm Tongan and was raised knowing culture and was eager to find out more about it. To be honest, being Tonganly Proud is a habit that we have which made the explanation in the video wrong "no offense again". But Us Tongans came from Samoa. We were once one people but not Samoa yet. Until we made our separate ways and Tonga with the Kings will to conquer all polynesian islands back before the act of missionary work occurs "that which made us lose part of our culture". When she said fale ula it was right but the The tau'olunga was one we adopted from Samoa (from the time we took Samoa into "Tongas new government back in history before Captain cook". Because back the when we started departure from Samoa we where still in one government "including fiji". But Tonga had the king and Samoa had continued with their chief ways. So part of Fiji became part of our government and we always perform "Kotoni Ceremony". The tau'olunga was performed by Men back then, until the King switched the roles of the male and female in performance. Now from then Men do the "tulāfale" while women do the "tau'olunga". My proof is because the generation of my family is from the oldest of it's kind back in the Ha'a Tu'I Tatui we are from the To'a(WARRIOR) Tongo(Kings great Gaurdian of the seas Royal Blood* 'uluaki ha'á)[ahoeitu (1st king and his mother is Samoan) times, we are from his elder jealous (part God) brothers]. My family still have the talent of women knowing the women version of tulāfale(this is the origin of the males tulāfale until the king made men do the tulāfale). Much love though to all but here's my truth. Apologies to anyone if I had hurt your feelings or have made you upset, please forgive me. Mālö 'aupito mo Tu'a'ofa atu.
Doko tuku a ho pusiko😂 koe histolia a Tongan nae tupu mai pe mei Tonga alu ange o lau ae foi tohi ke mahino atu ka koe ae mea mooni hoi
That is a long long story...first time for me to hear that parts of fiji use to be part of samoa..........well oral history is just confusing everyone....the only thing we know in fiji is that you samoan stole one of our much respected tradition ...and that is tatooing
@@jonacaninaiteitei7274 uh in samoa, it came from fiti in Manu’a. not Fiji bye
Just tell us your Samoan out here pretending your Tongan, let me tell you we know our history don’t try come out here and teach us our history if you wanna be Tongan than why always try claim our royal family are Samoan yea a mix of blood, and ‘AHO’EITU was never the 1st king of Tonga he was NEVER the 1st Tu’i Tonga there were other Tongan kings before ‘AHO’EITU the Tongan Empire was waaay before ‘Aho’eitu 🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️
@@jonacaninaiteitei7274 sorry to break the Truth but the Tattoo was not from Fiji it was originally gifted to the people of Manu’a from the village of Fitiuta by the twin girls that traveled by a 🛶 over to the island. No offense! It was not stolen.
I happened to be on this channel because I wanted to learn about the tales of the Tongan Taualuga and was curious on how they started theirs but it’s not being told here. I searched on CZcams the history of Tonga Taualuga but here I am. And I love reading people’s comments and appreciating the different countries in Polynesia for upholding their values and traditions ❤