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The Polynesian Dance in particular Ori Tahiti (or Ote`a) is an ancient form of dance native to the island. Ote`a is characterized by fast drum beats and women's fast moving hips, was specifically requested by our valued clients that it has to be performed by the Malaysian belly dance performer, ELi.

According to our clients that they can hardly find any Polynesian dancers in Malaysia, and ELi is one of the renowned drum solo belly dance performer who can perform the dance. Not to disrespect the Polynesian culture, ELi tried her level best to understand the dance, culture and technique before performing it.



ELi performing Ote'a Dance


This is ELi's first solo Ote'a dance performance in a corporate event to 1,000 audience at Sunway Lagoon during Affin Investment Bank Aloha Night May 8th, 2010.

Special thanks to May Production House for providing the authentic Polynesian costume. Your kind supports are very much required. Thank you and happy watching :) 


My opinion is that, firstly does Asian have qualified professional belly dance instructors who have good teaching technique, oriental dancing technique, performing technique, physical strength and fitness, Middle Eastern cultural touch, and last but not least musical sense / analysis? If not, can Asian oriental dance instructors strengthen their oriental dancing skills and techniques in order to continue teaching and sharing such beautiful dance?































Secondly, we need to understand that Asian women are pretty shy in nature (ie. in performing and in expressing themselves) let alone belly dancing :) So, it goes back to the ability of finding a good instructor to encourage and to motivate the Asian belly dancers is vital. 

Thirdly, in general Asian women are less voluptuous, therefore they require much effort in fulfilling the traditional gaze of the world audience.

Lastly, practice makes perfect.

With all of the above, I think everyone can belly dance.

Happy shimmy.





Translation by Yuki Okamoto
                                                                                                          May 18, 2010



ELSA Dance Asia featuring the belly dance star performer ELi and Yin to perform an Oriental Tabla (Drum) Solo Belly Dance performance at Monash University Cultural Night on the April 30th, 2010 for 1,000 international audience on that night.

Enjoy :)



Choreography: Oriental Tabla Solo, by ELi




Choreography: Mermaid , by ELi
















Special thanks to Joanna from the Monash University International Students Faculty and a big thank you to Monash University to invite us to be part of the celebration.




ELSA Dance Asia proudly featuring Yin, Chaen, and ELi to perform a trans-cultural and trans-national dance and musical performance for 7th WINA Earth Food International Award at Mandarin Oriental Hotel Kuala Lumpur on the April 21st, 2010. The 800 audience are from Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, China, India, Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia and etc.



Performed by: ELi, Yin, Chaen
Theme of The Night: Earth Food: Make It Happen

 

Dance Artistes Behind The Scene












And YES, we made it too!









Asia renowned performing artiste-weijun perform at WINA Earth Food International Awards 2010 at Mandarin Oriental. Weijun is no stranger in the Malaysian performing arts scene. Since his return to Malaysia after completing a Bachelor of Arts, Dance Degree in 2001 at Queensland University of Technology (Australia), he has been involved in many acclaimed theatre productions (He played the monk in the multi-award winning Rivergrass Dance Theatres RE: Lady White Snake).

Weijuns first full-length solo SINFUL LEGS SACRED BODY premiered at Sutra Dance Theatre (artistic director Ramli Ibrahim) in July 2002. It received a nomination for Best Solo Dance Performer for the BOH Cameronian Arts Awards 2002 and Weijun was also nominated for Most Promising Artist.

A multidisciplinary artiste, he contributes not only as a dancer, choreographer and dance instructor but also as a singer, songwriter, model, actor, TV program host and script writer among other things.

Weijun also stared in AHA AHEM ALRIGHT OK SHOW! A popular children edutainment program that ran for 4 seasons (52 episodes) on TV2.

In 2005, Weijun choreographed, composed and produced a full-length dance production EN-BODY-MEN staged at the KUALA LUMPUR PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE. 

Weijun was listed in VMAG as one of the Ten Most Wanted New Male 2003.

 

Asia Performing Artiste Weijun Perform At WINA Earth Food International Awards 2010



For a selection of demo songs and video by weijun visit:

http://amp.channelv.com/weijun or http://www.youtube.com/weijundemo





Performer: Benjamin, Weijun, Yis, Yin, Chaen and ELi

Special thanks to Benjamin, Weijun, Yis, Yin, Chaen and ELi to perform at WINA Earth Food International Awards 2010 at Mandarin Oriental on the 21 April 2010. Happy watching :)

See you in Tianjin, China 2012.