Unanimously considered the greatest choreographer Polynesia has known, Coco Hotahota is a dance master. He is one of the rare group leaders, if not the only one, to actually take care of the entire production chain of a show, whether it is writing the theme, writing the songs, composing. , costume creation, choreography. In 1962 he created his troupe, Te Maeva, which in 55 years of existence will have been the most successful troupe in the history of Heiva i Tahiti, and also the largest troupe in terms of number, more than 150 dancers at the time. peak, in the 80s. Today after his disappearance we have the impression that Coco, who for a long time represented modernity, has become the reference for tradition. It's the whole contradiction of the character that we also admire for that.
The story of the Temaeva troupe told by its founder Coco Hotahota, the major choreographer of Tahitian dance, who died in 2020.