So what happen these last ~ wait... Novembre 2015... we are in February 2017... so last ~ 14 monthes?
So...
Dec 2015 - Jan 2016
- my last job on the set of the MAAF... during the holidays!
Great time again with this great team!
- Back on the ice few little time on the Christmas rink.
- Christmas and New Eve with Family in Paris.
- a "party" with my co-worker. It was a good evening.
- Festival Bouche-à-Bouche with my sister-in-law . Really nice time!
http://www.stylistic.fr/2016/01/festival-bouche-a-bouche-2016_62580
- a 2nd 'ori tahiti workshop with Joelle Berg. Some of my dancer friend came with me for one class.
I think that over for these 2 monthes...
February 2016
Nothing special...
March 2016
- an amazing, wonderful... 'ori Tahiti Workshop with Makau Foster... so GREAT!!!
Some new meeting, and see back some other dancers met in Joelle Berg Workshops.
- a wonderful week with my really good friends in Lyon!
(greattime as always with them and funny things too : disney store, lego store... and some visits! =D)
April 2016
- all nighter in Paris for the Bday of my favorite cousin! going in a really good night-club!
Dancing all night! Taking the last metro... ;)
- My first 'ori Tahiti dance classes as teacher... for children, in an activity centers. Giving 2h/day during 2 weeks.
- And before begininng the dance classes i talked about previously, they asked me to give also dance class in several nursery & elementary schools. Giving 5h/week in different places. Great experiences...
...
July 2025...
Yes, just happened to search some ideas to communicate with my dance students...
So many years already passed...
After the beginning of my "sole trader" in April 2016 to give Tahitian Dance Classes, lots of things happened (and no, i will not talked about the pandemic... ;) even if it changed many things in life like for everybody.)
In 2017, i gave some technics classes in an 'Ori Tahiti Association (not my previous group) first for adults, then helped for the children classes too.
I also began to work in many elemantary schools, teaching infographics, crafting arts, drama, a bit of music too for the after school activities. From January 2017 to june 2022 ! wow 5 years... i just realised!
Well...
In 2018, i began my first official season as 'Ori Tahiti teacher in the Association Culturelle & Sportive de la Polle at Cherbourg.
And till then... i'm still teaching! I started with 5 students and this season, they were 44!!! Each year the number increased and im grateful for all this! Teaching also a bit music and of coruse weaving. It's a part of the cursus of a 'Ori Tahiti dancer. You learn dance but to make your outfits too.
Well... i will not talked about everythings in details... too many things happend in almost 10 years! ^^
But here it is. I'm now officially a 'Ori Tahiti Teacher.
Even if sometimes i'm a bit overhelmed (dealing with a depression at the same time for about 5 years now...) i know that right now, i'm at a right place. I'm watching my students growing up not only as dancers but also as human being. I don't know where this path is leading me, but i'm really growing up each year thanks to this amazing culture and all of my students! (some days i admit, i want to quit... because when you are a hypersensitive like me and kind of shy... reticent... giving classes is an every time challenge! ;) But it's also this way i'm improving and i love to create... i'm a little bit too crazy sometimes, but my students are still here... ;) so i think it's not too bad ^^
(if in the past, as my main occupation at home since i began figure skating at 6yo, was to imagine creating show on ice, making choreographies on each musics i was listening, sketching some outfits too... so If someone had told me in the past that today I would be where I am...i would have laugh! I'm now doing all this, not in ice skating - even if i already did some too! - but in 'Ori Tahiti! For real!
If you want to know more about my group : Fb @OriTahiti.LaPolle https://www.facebook.com/OriTahiti.LaPolle
1/ NEW JOB!!!
After 2d/3d animation and babysitting (10 years are enough! ;) ) i've begin to work in ...
Set construction!
(yes... really hard work ! ;) )
Worked 3 times with an incredible team who learned me a lot from my first day till now!
2/ DANCE
I did 2 others workshop with Moena Maiotui and one with Joelle Berg an other great dancer.
Meeting some new dancers from all over Europe and one from USA.
I worked a lot on choreographies for my association. Hula, Aparima, Ote'a. Children/ level 1/ level 2... solos/duos/groups/... finale...
3/ SYNCHRONISED SKATING...
yes... our arena closed 5 years ago now... but for Christmas, the storekeepers of the city payed a (very) little mobile ice-rink...
So we called some skaters and we made a little show with figure skating and synchronised skating... it was really great to skate again! and fun to do it with some i coached 5 years ago!
It was a very wonderful time! especially for Christmas! Hope we'll have some ice this Christmas again!
4/ PASTRY
Nothing special... new recipices tasted.. i'll poste them soon.
5/ PUMPKINS!
I made this 3 last year
and 2 this year : Alien vs Predator.
and one with Stitch in DBZ mood... ;)
(some friends from IMC Normandie were in LA to present their short DBZ fanfiction at the ComicCon)
6/ BACK TO MY HOMELAND! MY ISLAND! MON PEI!
Went to Réunion Island with my sister for few magical days... it was really great to be back in "mon péi"!
Salazie, Cilaos, Le Tampon, St Pierre, the Volcano (a hike of about 5h... i'll reach the summit this time! took my time so no asthma! and saw the crater... WOW! =D)
some great meals of course... samoussas, bonbons piments, sarcives, gâteau patates... CABRI MASSALE!!! <3
And one of the best moment was... The gift from my sister for my Bday... It was the best of my life!
A horseback ride, in western style, in the savannah of the Cap des Houssayes...at the end of the day... watching the sunset on the Indian Ocean then going back at moonlight... the gallop at night was... magical!
about 2h30 of horse riding then a great time talking with our guide who has worked with our father when we lived on the Island! 26 years ago!!! what a coincidence!
I'll post some pictures of this wonderful trip in an other article.
7/ WEDDING OF MY BRO!
An important event for family! And for the first time cousins (and little cousins!) from both side (paternal and maternal) met each other!
8/ Make some decision for my futur...
Not easy but "sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn't make you love them any less" (Nicholas Sparks)... i've left my association of tahitian dance. i've to move and think of my future, my professional and personnal life...
Well... to start 2014, I'll summarize 2013 in few pictures of some important things (for me... ;) ) I did, discovered or learnt!
First : PASTRY!
I made some new cupcakes and for the first time some 3D cakes with sugar paste!!!
Next: Figure skating and the "Championnat de Normandie"
I went to the French Cup (Synchronised skating) and "Trophée Bompart" (figure skating) with some friends : Nice time! ^^
Then : ORI TAHITI!!! <3
One of the best moments : THE workshop with THE BEST dancer : MOENA MAIOTUI.
Watch these videos :
and... what follows, I discovered it through researches on Hawaiian Tattoo (Kakau)...
I found some old drawings like this one...
Would like to know what caught my attention?
The name of the artist... JACQUES ARAGO...
Who is he? He was a French writer, artist and explorer, author of a Voyage Round the World.
But why his name caught my attention? Because... He's one of my ancestor.
I knew few things about him and finding his drawings, i discovered a lot about him!
First, he was an artist (i'm a little myself...) he began his "voyage round the world" in 1817, when he was 27 (my current age, funny!) He went to some islands like : Mauritius, Île Bourbon (now ïle de la Réunion, where i was born), ... and to the Islands Sandwich (called Hawaii now) in 1819... and in 1821, at the end of his trip... after discovering a lot of islands and countries... he arrived... in Cherbourg... where we're living for some years! ;)
During his travels, he learnt a lot of things about different culture... at the end of his books, there are little glossaries. One of them is on Hawaiian language... His name and his work are mentioned in the Hawaiian Dictionary, by Mary Kawena Pukui and Samuel H.Elbert. exemple i found (after i baught the dictionary, without knowing about this work... )
"pō.poki
n. Cat (noted in Arago's 1819 vocabulary; said by some to be
derived from English “poor pussy”). Pōpoki kī, a spitting cat [a
spiteful, malignant person]. Pōpoki lehu, Maltese cat; lit., ash cat. Pōpoki nāwaliwali, weak cat [a weakling]. Pōpoki peʻelua, gray cat with darker markings, as a tabby cat; lit., caterpillar cat."
Well...
With these researches... I dicovered more about hawaiian culture... like HULA!
It's a wonderfull dance and there are some incredible dancers!
My favorite Halau (School) is " Ka leo o laka i ka hikina o ka la", their kumu (master) is Kaleo Trinidad.
I discovered this incredible dancer : Natasha Oda :
One of the first performance i watched : the Academy of Hawaiian Arts.
So that was my year 2013! ^^
With a lot of great moments with family like: 4th birthday of my godson and his bro, my own birthday with more people i thought!, the 30th birthday of my elder brother, the 90th of my Grandmother and the 23th of my sister in Paris after her first show as professional skater! So proud of you sister! ;)
Well, i said that i will not going to lunch before 3pm... that is what i've done... I had lunch at... 4pm... !!!
My lunch? Inspired by "Huli huli chicken"... really good!
And after this great meal, i took a break before going out with some friends... to restaurant... !!!
Just before to go, i finished to decorate ma Bday Cupcakes, Ananas-coco with a curaçao toping, so here the result! Tasted it when i came home. Good! but few improvements to do : less ananas, a little more baking...
Ni'ihau
Kaua'i
O'ahu
Moloka'i
Lana'i
Kaho'olawe
Maui
And to finish, the Big Island, Hawai'i
I made some Haupia too, but cut it quickly so the result is not really nice... but the taste is really good, it's the most important, isn't it? ;)
It was a really nice day, finished in restaurant with a little surprise organized by the president of my ice skating club : more people came! And i got gifts : a cheescake recipices book ^^, a plate with skaters in illustration (really nice, a picture tomorrow), a book on Polynesia and some little words on a card! And a beautiful scarf!
And all the day, messages from family and friends.
Why special day? Because today it's my Birthday!!! i'm 27 till 00h05!!! (even if i wasn't born in France but in ïle de la Réunion, so with the time difference, i'm 27 till yesterday 20h05... ) but it doesn't matter! ;)
so...
For 3 years now, i'm interesting in Polynesia... i dance Ori Tahiti and i would like to learn Hula...
Hula = Hawai'i...
So today, my birthday day... have a little air and taste of Hawai'i...
To start, breakfast : inspirated by Loco Moco
It's really good! ;)
Eaten at 10 am... i think i'm not going to lunch before 3 pm!!! XD
Finished!!!
And during my breakfast just received my Birthday gift from my parents :
First book about art i asked!
Really nice! ^^
Now i'm going to finish my Birthday cupcakes and i've made Haupia.... it's really goooooood!!!! ^^
