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Traditional Fijian
Dance - The Meke
A meke is a traditional Fijian dance. It is typically performed during
celebrations and festivals. Males and females each perform a separate
dance never dancing together. The male dance is called the meke moto
usually involving long spears. The dance is meant to symbolize the
ancient warriors of the village. The female dance is called the seasea
and involves the performers making rapid motions with their hands and
arms.
Different types of meke include the war dance, men's club dance, men's
spear dance, as well as the men's or women's fan dance, women's standing
dance and the sitting dance performed by men or women. All these meke
are group dancers in which the overall appearance and group
co-ordination are important. Men's dance movements are vigorous and
virile while women's are controlled and graceful with lots of hand and
body movements.
The music for the dance is provided by bamboo tubes and the lali, a
wooden drum. The performers illustrate the meaning of the meke through
the lyrics of the songs. The songs and their lyrics are created by the
daunivucu, a Fijian composer, specifically for each meke
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The Center for Pacific Islands Studies at the
University of Hawai'i, in collaboration with Pacific Studies at
Victoria University of Wellington, devoted its 9-12
November 2005 conference to dance in Oceania. This was the first
international conference on the topic that brought together
choreographers, scholars, and performers of traditional,
contemporary, and hip hop music and dance. This was also the
first time that the annual Pacific Islands Studies conference
was held overseas, and for this we chose the venue of
Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand, a creative, vibrant and active
center of Pacific arts. The gathering was convened at and
co-hosted by the
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.
Dance and music have always been central forms of spiritual,
political, artistic, physical and intellectual expression
throughout Oceania. It is through dance in particular that those
living in or connected to this ocean engage and reflect both
their lived and ancestral worlds from Wellington, Los Angeles,
and Sydney to Apia, Suva, and Tarawa. Yet the current
scholarship on dance is often marginalized in the academy and
more work needs to be done that recognizes the importance of
dance to the creative survival of Pacific peoples. This
conference brought together choreographers, dancers, composers,
curators, costume makers, scholars, writers, musicians, and
artists to participate in a discussion on the knowledge and
practice of dance in Oceania across cultural, national,
academic, and aesthetic boundaries.
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