Hoe Ana is a “hand Action Song” and dance, that originates from the islands of Rarotonga (also known as the Cook Islands), just to the west of Tahiti. The dance is of a style known in the Cook Islands as Kaparima or Ura, or commonly referred to as "Action Dances". In other words, it is a dance accompanied by hand gestures that are descriptive of the text. This is not the same as mime but represents actual language. Cook Islanders usually call these dances, "Hand Action Songs."Hand dancers are wo