E PUROTU OKI KOE NO IVANUI BY DANIEL SNOWBALL JNR Dances are performed at multicultural festivals.[19] One of the popular traditional dances of the Cook Islands is the Maori Ura, a sacred ritual usually performed by a female who moves her body to tell a story, accompanied by intense drumming by at least 5 drummers. Moving the hips, legs and hands give off different gestures to the audience to tell a tale, typically related to the natural landscape such as the ocean and birds and flowers, but also feelings of love and sadness.[21] The ura dance has three distinct components; the ura pau (drum dances), korero (legends) and kaparima (action songs).[22] To perform the ura, women typically wear a pareu and a kikau (grass) skirt, with flowers and shell headbands and necklaces known as ei.[22] Men during the dance are said to vigorously flap their knees in a semi-crouched position while holding their upper bodies steady, and they typically wear kikau skirts and headbands.[22] The drumming group, an integral part of the Ura, typically consists of a lead drummer (pate taki), support lead (pate takirua), a double player (tokere or pate akaoro) playing wooden gongs, and two other players playing skin drums (pau and skin drum )
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