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00:00So our opening number is a Maori traditional poi dance. The girls have poi balls and they're going to dance to a song that's going to be a little bit familiar. Let me tell you. You're going to be like, I heard that song before. Oh, I don't have the title right here.
00:21Etui, I think is the name of it. And they're going to do some tricks with the poi balls. We are not insured. So if you're in the front right here and you get hit by the poi balls, that is your own fault for trying to be so close to us. Here we go. Are we ready? My sound engineer named Ligaya, who is my own daughter. Thank you very much.
00:45All right. Are we ready? Let us clap, clap, clap for our Melillas. Dancing with their poi balls. Yada.
01:15I have no idea, mom. Mom just told me and I was like, okay, it's okay. If you talk to Lori and I think she's like, okay.
01:28Okay.
01:40Okay.
01:42Thank you so much for watching.
03:12Oh, what troopers? What troopers? Very good, girl.
03:18Did you guys enjoy that?
03:21Amazing. You should see me with poi balls, honestly.
03:24With my invisible poi balls.
03:26Woo! I throw them in the air. I catch them lying down.
03:32I'm really bad at poi balls. That's the truth.
03:35Okay, we're going to start the hula portion of our program.
03:41We're going to welcome our Ilimas.
03:44And they are our youngest of the Thursdays.
03:50They go through our Tuesday program and then they come to the Thursday.
03:55And then we train them to go up to that level right there where the play balls were.
04:00So, they are going to dance to a mele called Kei Keokahula.
04:07It's in English. I don't have to explain it, but it's a very nice mele.
04:11Let's give it up for performing in Limas.
04:14With the grace of a bird and a sparkle in the eye
04:30The lift of the hand says,
04:32Kei Keokahula, Kei Keokahula
04:46When Honour, the whale, had their story told
04:53The joy of the dancer is a sight to behold
04:57Haole, Haole, Haole, Haole
05:02Kei Keokahula, Kei Keokahula
05:08Kei Keokahula
05:10Lele'uwehe, Hela, to
05:15The beat of the equal and the sacred calling
05:19Amina, shoulders steady
05:23Ho-ho-kau-kau
05:26Ha-i
05:27Maikahula
05:29We're passing down the stories of long ago
05:34Of the Aina born of fire, rain and snow
05:38Ha-ho-li
05:39Ha-ho-li-kau-kau
05:43Kei Keokahula
05:47Kei Keokahula
05:49Aina non-ai non-ai non-ai non-ai aerop babi
05:52Aina non-ai
05:53Spoken with the hands of the heart and the eyes
05:57Is the language of the people, proud and wise
06:01Aoli, aoli kako
06:06Kei kio kakula, kei kio ka'ai la la
06:14Adore with me, kute etu
06:19It's the melee of aloha that we dance for you
06:23Praise from the sea, the shining sun
06:27It's lokali, it's aloha
06:30It's 35
06:31This is the story of the sacred hula
06:41Aoli, aoli kako
06:46Kei kio kakula, kei kio ka'ai la
06:53This is the story of the sacred hula
07:04Aoli, aoli kako
07:08Kei kio kakula, kei kio ka'ai la la
07:16Kei kio kakula, kei kio ka'ai la la
07:24Kei kio kakula, kei kio ka'ai la la
07:31Beautifully done, yes
07:48While they are going down, we are going to go up
07:54With a wet look real quick today
07:56Alrighty girls, ho'omau kau kau
07:59Let's give our petite pakakis a round of applause
08:04Some of them are their first time dancing on stage with us today
08:08They'll be dancing too if you want to dance to hula
08:11If you want to dance to hula
08:24To love, like the ladies do at my kiki
08:28You want to learn the rules
08:31To love, if you want to do it perfectly
08:36Use your hands to describe the scene
08:40To explain the words and what they mean
08:44Like the ship out on the ocean
08:47You set yourself in motion
08:49The rest of you will go along naturally
08:53But before you dance to hula
08:56If it's wise to do without your shoes
09:00And wrap the grass skirt all around you
09:04That's the one thing you should never lose
09:08Now if everything is on to stand
09:12You bend your knees and on me, on me, oh yeah
09:16And a smile relieves the feeling
09:19That the rest of you will be revealing
09:23And you have learned to do the hula hula
09:28But before you dance to hula
09:34Hula, it is wise to do without your shoes
09:39And wrap the grass skirt all around you
09:43That's the one thing you should never lose
09:47Now if everything is on to stand
09:51You bend your knees and on me, on me, oh yeah
09:55Let's smile relieves the feeling
09:58That the rest of you will be revealing
10:02And you have learned to do the hula hula
10:12Hands on your...
10:14Oh, you guys got to be louder. Let's try that again. Ready?
10:18Hands on your...
10:20Bend your...
10:22Bend your...
10:24Smile on your...
10:25Face
10:27Okay, do they look ready, guys?
10:30I think they look ready
10:44I only live in memory of all the tunes I used to do
10:53Back on the shore of my kiki in a condo
10:59I used to sing a melody of all the fishes that I grew
11:07As I go paddling on to sing in a condo
11:12I can fill the world to get back where I can be by the sea
11:21And maybe someday I'll find someone really here for me
11:28I only live in memory of all the tunes I used to do
11:35Back on the shore of my kiki in a condo
11:39I only live in memory of all the tunes I used to do
11:48Back on the shore of my kiki in a condo
11:53I used to sing a melody of all the fishes that I grew
12:01And I go paddling on to sing in a condo
12:07I give the world to get back where I can be by the sea
12:15And maybe someday I'll find someone really here for me
12:22I only live in memory of all the tunes I used to do
12:28Back on the shore of my kiki in a condo
12:34Back on the shore of my kiki in a condo
12:40I'll be performing to Lisa Loves, My Little Grass Shack
12:47I wanna go back to my little grass shack
13:03I think you're a kiki in a condo
13:05I wanna be with all the climbers and Rahimis and I'm here on the ground
13:12I can hear old guitars are playing on the beach at home now
13:17I can hear old guitars are playing on the beach at home now
13:21I can hear old guitars are playing on the beach at home now
13:23I can hear old guitars are playing on the beach at home now
13:25I'm a mama mongar-ma-ka-a-wa-li-n-ka-ara-wa-n-ka-a-wa-w stakeholder
13:30Tell me should we be sailing back to Ghana
13:34A grand old place it's always fair to see
13:40I'm just a little lonely for Hawaiian boy
13:46I wanna go back to my fishing boat
13:50Hoşçakalın!
14:20I'm just a little lonely for Hawaiian boy
14:43I wanna go back to my fish and play
14:46I'll be back to my little glass shack
14:49I wanna go back to my can生
14:53I'll be back to my life
15:01I'll be back to my life
15:05I'll be back
15:15Bye Bye
15:19the world and how we mix together and we just make a beautiful complete world so
15:33here is Armalia's dancing to Ka Oluwehi O Kekai
16:03a La Oka Rīpōrua
16:11He hao Hello Kei Te Makū
16:15Ke KaEmo Nguwe na Nguwe na Nguwe
16:19Nguike anaoa e Higiporike
16:23Me Kei A La Oka Rīpōrua
16:27Oh
22:27In the Holy
22:33In the Holy
22:57We're going to get ourselves a little more at the end of the world, so we are going to
23:08come to town!
23:27Yeah, oh, my joy, God, we
23:32Oh, my God, you're here
23:37I'm in my way
23:39Oh, my God, you're here
23:43Oh, my God, you're here
23:46Yeah, oh, my joy, God, we
23:53Oh, my God, you're here
23:58Oh, my God, you're here
24:01Oh, my God, you're here
24:03Oh, my God, you're here
24:05Oh, my God, you're here
24:07Oh, my God, you're here
24:11Oh, my God, you're here
24:13Oh, my God, you're here
24:15Oh, my God, you're here
24:17Oh, my God, you're here
24:19Oh, my God, you're here
24:21Don't make it up, it's not my eyes
24:26It's the beginning of the night
24:28Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, I'm like, you know, I'm all alone
