{"id":8341,"date":"2015-07-21T10:00:58","date_gmt":"2015-07-21T10:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertharding.com\/blog\/?p=6341"},"modified":"2015-07-19T14:25:12","modified_gmt":"2015-07-19T14:25:12","slug":"heiva-festival-tahiti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertharding.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/21\/heiva-festival-tahiti\/","title":{"rendered":"The hypnotic Heiva Festival, Tahiti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every July\u00a0Tahitians gather to celebrate their energetic traditional dance, music and song. After being banned by the missionaries during colonial times Tahitian dance came back to popularity in the 60s and now troupes from all over the island compete to be known as the best.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertharding.com\/preview\/817-142061\/singing-dancing-competitions-heiva-tahiti-july-festival-important\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-6384 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/embed.robertharding.com\/embed\/817-142061.jpg\" alt=\"Singing and dancing competitions, Heiva Tahiti, July Festival, the most important festival of Tahiti, City of Papeete (capital), Tahiti Island, the Society Islands, French Polynesia, Pacific\" width=\"480\" height=\"316\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Singing and dancing competitions, Heiva Tahiti, City of Papeete<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertharding.com\/preview\/817-142064\/singing-dancing-competitions-heiva-tahiti-july-festival-important\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-6387 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/embed.robertharding.com\/embed\/817-142064.jpg\" alt=\"Singing and dancing competitions, Heiva Tahiti, July Festival, the most important festival of Tahiti, City of Papeete (capital), Tahiti Island, the Society Islands, French Polynesia, Pacific\" width=\"480\" height=\"324\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Singing and dancing competitions, Heiva, City of Papeete<\/p>\n<p>See more photo of Tahiti <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertharding.com\/?lang=en&amp;page=search&amp;s=tahiti&amp;smode=0&amp;license=2&amp;zoom=1&amp;display=5&amp;sortby=0&amp;bgcolour=white&amp;orientation%5B%5D=0&amp;orientation%5B%5D=1&amp;orientation%5B%5D=2&amp;orientation%5B%5D=3\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every July\u00a0Tahitians gather to celebrate their energetic traditional dance, music and song. After being banned by the missionaries during colonial times Tahitian dance came back [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6384,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The hypnotic Heiva Festival, Tahiti - robertharding<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.robertharding.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/21\/heiva-festival-tahiti\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The hypnotic Heiva Festival, Tahiti - robertharding\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Every July\u00a0Tahitians gather to celebrate their energetic traditional dance, music and song. 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