Thursday July 19 8PM. Collage of Cultures (international dance, music, storytelling, and cuisine.  Thursday night includes Greek, Japanese, Korean, Middle Eastern, Okinawan, and Tahitian performances). Presented by the Arts Alliance Heritage Council at North Fourth Art Center Theatre, 4904 Fourth Street, Albuquerque. Advance tickets Tickets $10. Email Dancetahiti@aol.com for tickets info. Saturday July 28 Pista Sa Nayon Barrio Fiesta, A festival of food, culture, and fun.  Proceeds go to Fil-Am Foundation sholarships.  UNM Continuing Education building.  Ethnic food tasting $1/item.  Dance performances start at 700pm.  Tickets $5. July 31, 8:00pm Blue Dragon Coffeehouse, Girard and Indian School August 28, 8:00 pm, Blue Dragon Coffee House, Girard and Indian School Sept. 22  4 pm  Globalquerque  Festival Tahitian performance and workshop Design by Carla Frey Welcome to our FREE performances the last Tuesday of every month at the Blue Dragon Coffeehouse on Indian School and Girard. We will perform beautiful solo and Ote’a group Tahitian dances at your venue.  Please contact for details.  We will gladly bring lively entertainment and the beauty, grace, stamina, and energy of Tahitian Dance to your venue. Private workshops and group lessons available. Kareva has conducted workshops in Los Angeles and Dallas and will travel to any state to provide invigorating, entertaining, educational, and evolutionary Tahitian dance instruction to your halau, dance school, or interested party. Workshops include movement variations, glossary of terms, choreographies and notes, and CDs of music. Dance courses geered to suit your needs Book us for your Polynesian feast or special event* We are extremely interested in giving back to the community.  Please contact us to perform for your fundraiser events. *Important note :  Our dance philosophy is to maintain the cultural integrity of our performances. We will not perform at Bachelor parties or other male only venues nor will we perform in any other arenas that degrade, exploit, or sexualize women.    Tahitian Cultural Performances and Presentations Tahitian culture has a fascinating history that few get to know about due to the perpetuation of the myth and exoticization of Tahiti. French Polynesia, the sensual "Earthly Paradise" of Gauguin, Pierre Loti, Louis-Antoine de Bougainville, Diderot, James Norman Hall and Herman Melville has been exoticized, eroticized, and mythologized since its late eighteenth century ‘discovery. Since that time, European male missionaries, explorers, sailors, painters, writers, and others have frozen, represented, and silenced Ma’ohi people. I offer cultural presentations that are fun, lively, and that offer an alternate perspective of the richness and diversity of French Polynesian lifeways. In order to spread awareness about Tahitian dance and culture geered toward your specific needs and interest, I provide lively, informative, engaging, and professional cultural presentations to your group or event.  Cultural presentations can include : · classroom lecture/presentation only · Dance performances only · Combination of lecture and dance performance Please give at least six weeks advance notice to book your presentation. Prices will vary depending on the venue.  Presentations are primarily in Albuquerque and  New Mexico but available anywhere in the United States and the world (Venue provides travel expenses). Venues include but are not limited to :   public and private school presentations, private group functions, college and university presentations, conference presentations, charity fundraiser events, community center classes, continuing education classes.. Topics for cultural presentations vary and can be geered towards the specific needs of your function.  Suggestions for topics are : · Role of women in pre European contact society · Authors in French Polynesia : the Ma’ohi literary movement · History of the tatau, or Tahitian tattooing · History of  Tahitian dance · Effects of missionary contact from 1797-1842 · French colonization in Polynesia · Subverting the myth of Tahiti · The cultural and artistic renaissance in French Polynesia · Contemporary Tahiti · What to see and do in French Polynesia on a budget