Coco Hotahota Te Meava

  • Coco Hotahota Te Maeva
Genre : Biography
Type : Documentary
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Principal country concerned : Column : Music, Cinema/tv, Dance, Heritage
Year of production : 2019
Format : Feature
Running time : 90 (in minutes)

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.

 

Summary for official catalogues

The story of the Temaeva troupe told by its founder Coco Hotahota, the major choreographer of Tahitian dance, who died in 2020.

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  • Arterial network
  • Media, Sports and Entertainment Group (MSE)
  • Gens de la Caraïbe
  • Groupe 30 Afrique
  • Alliance Française VANUATU
  • PACIFIC ARTS ALLIANCE
  • FURTHER ARTS
  • Zimbabwe : Culture Fund Of Zimbabwe Trust
  • RDC : Groupe TACCEMS
  • Rwanda : Positive Production
  • Togo : Kadam Kadam
  • Niger : ONG Culture Art Humanité
  • Collectif 2004 Images
  • Africultures Burkina-Faso
  • Bénincultures / Editions Plurielles
  • Africiné
  • Afrilivres

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