Dancing and singing is an important way for Kiribati communities to bond and connect to their culture when living away from the islands.
This traditional song and dance is performed by members of the UK I-Kiribati diaspora. It illustrates the importance of the sea and land, and through distinctive body positions the dancers’ movements represent the native frigate bird.
This film was made as part of the Kiribati Object Journeys project at the Museum and will be on display in the new Kiribati display in the Museums Wellcome Gallery.
Directed and Produced by Victoria Burns.
Filmed at Camber Sands, East Sussex and in London, May 2017
Wonderful beautiful and expressive dancing and singing.
Kam na Mauri, I was browsing the internet to see if there has been any publication on our I-Kiribati Sea-god Teraaka and am pleased to find this 2017 posting. For me the song and dance about TERAAKA is important and contributes to our Mainstream Management and Business Studies because it talks about the types of 3 fishing lure (attraction)to accompany the baits: the first lure or te moan kaneati,, 2nd lure or te kauai ni kaneati, and 3rd lure or te katennai ni kaneati. And for or from the first to the 2nd and the 3rd there are different quantities of catches caught by the fishermen.. A traditional canoe fishermen only use the bait with or without the lure because of the low holding capacity of the small canoe, but bigger fishing boats use the lures. In Management we design plans like short to long term strategic plans…. Thank you Object Journeys for posting!!!