A typically placid morning on Kaanapali Beach became a swirl of song and dance in a flash on July 22, 2011. Visitors, hospitality workers and other onlookers experienced a Tahitian dance flash mob as more than 20 youth, who moments prior appeared relaxing along Maui's golden sand, began to rise and sway to the sound of Polynesian percussion. The performance culminated in an all-halau display of dance.The dancers were students from Te Tiare Patitifa, a halau (school) based in Wailuku. The group's director, kumu hula Keoni Manuel, choreographed the performance.
