Experience the Elegance and Passion of Ori Tahiti Dance at Your Event

Are you in search of vibrant, exotic entertainment to elevate your event to a new level of excitement and cultural richness? Look no further than the mesmerizing art of Ori Tahiti dance, a captivating Polynesian dance form that beautifully encapsulates the spirit and traditions of Tahiti.

Hiring a Polynesian Dancer: Elevating Your Event

When considering entertainment for a special occasion, hiring a Polynesian dancer can add an unparalleled allure and cultural flair. The popularity of Ori Tahiti dance has surged in recent years, making it a sought-after choice for various events such as weddings, corporate gatherings, birthdays, and cultural festivals.

Ori Tahiti vs. Hula Dance: Understanding the Differences

Often confused due to their common association with Polynesian culture, Ori Tahiti and Hula dance possess distinctive styles and origins. While both dances embody cultural storytelling and rhythmic movements, they differ significantly in technique, attire, and storytelling elements. Ori Tahiti typically involves faster hip movements, dynamic footwork, and vibrant costumes, celebrating the vitality and beauty of Tahitian culture. Conversely, Hula dance, originating from Hawaii, incorporates more fluid and graceful motions, often accompanied by storytelling through hand gestures and facial expressions.

Bringing the Spirit of the Islands to Your Backyard Luau

A backyard luau offers the perfect setting for an enchanting Polynesian dance performance. Hiring a skilled Ori Tahiti dancer can transport your guests to the tropical paradise of Tahiti, infusing the gathering with pulsating rhythms, colorful costumes, and a sense of exotic allure. The immersive experience created by a Polynesian dancer can transform an ordinary gathering into a memorable island-inspired celebration.

The Evolution of Fire Dance in Polynesian Culture

Fire dance, an exhilarating and awe-inspiring spectacle, has become synonymous with Luaus and Polynesian dance. Originating from ancient rituals and ceremonies, fire dance symbolizes bravery, skill, and spiritual connections to the elements. Incorporating elements of fire manipulation and daring movements, fire dance adds an electrifying element to Polynesian performances, leaving audiences spellbound.

Exploring a Tapestry of Polynesian Dance Forms

Beyond Ori Tahiti, Polynesian culture boasts an array of captivating dance forms, each with its unique cultural significance:

• Poi Dance: Originating from New Zealand's Maori culture, poi dance involves rhythmic movements with tethered weights, creating mesmerizing visual patterns.

• Samoan Knife Dance: Known as "Siva Afi," this Samoan dance involves performers skillfully twirling and manipulating knives with precision and agility, showcasing warrior-like prowess.

• The Haka: A powerful ceremonial dance from New Zealand's Maori culture, the Haka is characterized by vigorous movements, chanting, and facial expressions, often performed to convey strength, unity, or challenge.

Bringing any of these diverse Polynesian dance forms to your event can infuse it with authenticity, energy, and cultural richness, leaving a lasting impression on your guests.

Embrace the allure and vibrancy of Ori Tahiti dance or other Polynesian dance forms to transform your event into an unforgettable celebration that bridges cultures and ignites the senses. Hiring a skilled Polynesian dancer can elevate your occasion, creating an immersive experience that transcends boundaries and captivates audiences with the enchanting rhythms and movements of the Pacific islands.

New Superhero in the House!

We just added Spider-Gwen AKA Ghost Spider AKA Gwen Stacey to our Superhero line up!

She had a lovely time visiting a brother and sister duo birthday party today in Lake Oswego, OR!

Everyone bounced in the bounce house, read stories together, played games like Spider, Spider, Spiderman and Spider-Says, got glitter tattoos, and took lots of pictures! Not to mention, fighting crime, as one does at a birthday party!

Invite Spider-Gwen to your next event! Or ask about any of our available Superheroes! Spiderman will be out tomorrow in Snoqualmie, WA!

And we had one of our newest performers out today in Beaverton! Her name is Josie Juggles and she is an INCREDIBLE children’s entertainer! Today she performed at the sweetest little girl’s 5th birthday party! She showed off her insane juggling abilities, engaged the kids in lessons and games, and even did some balloon twisting! Inquire about her services today!

Reach out today by phone or email! Our email address is bookings@cigientertainment and our phone number is 503-547-7760 (we ask that you please text to arrange a time for a phone call)! THANK YOU!!! Talk to you soon!

LETS PARTY!!!

Summertime, when the living is easy. Let CiGi Entertainment make it special for you.

We can help anyone add to that special celebration. It could be a corporate event, a reunion, a family get together or a birthday celebration. Any thing you have in mind

We have Polynesian Dancers, Bollywood, Belly Dancers, Samba, Ballet and Break Dancers. We can join your party and make it just a little more memorable. If kids are involved and want to learn the dances we can make that happen. Our dancers love teaching the youngsters. We also have face painting, balloon twisting, and other activities for the kids as well!

4th of July will soon be here and we can bring some real excitement to the holiday. We have both family friendly and night life entertainment. Fire and LED performers always make a fantastic addition to Independence Day celebrations!

We pride ourselves on offering professional services and making your party all that you hoped for. We have the ability to provide video and photograph to capture all the fun your family and friends will have. Consider making us a part of your corporate event or family get together. You will not regret it.

Take a look at photos from some of our past events!

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Face Painting with Petra!

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Balloon Animals with Frank!

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Superheroes at a recent charity event!

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Polynesian dancers at various events throughout 2022!

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Easter is Fast Approaching! Hire Our Bunny Now!!

Last year we had so much fun celebrating Easter! Our Bunny made appearances all up and down the I5 corridor in Oregon and Washington! Whether it was when our Bunny threw the opening pitch for the Hillsboro Hops game! Or helping kids find eggs at an HOA up in Shoreline, WA (we’ve been invited back this year and are just counting down the days)! And how much fun did we have at all of those backyard Easter Egg hunts we joined in all across Portland and Seattle? Too much fun!

Look at how cute our bunny is!

Getting ready for Easter is always a blast behind the scenes as well! Each year we have to make updates to costumes! Clean and sew and paint! All that good stuff! It is always a hoot to walk in the door and find a multitude of Easter Bunny heads strewn around the living room as they wait for their turn for touch-ups! Take a look at this short video to get a taste of what things are like behind the scenes at CG Entertainment!

You can hire Easter Bunnies and mascot characters at various companies in the PNW, but our performers are something special, and their energy and commitment to their characters are just not matched by anyone else! Any old Easter Bunny can sit in front of a back drop and take a photo, but our Bunnies truly get into character! They know that Easter Bunny, and mascots in general can sometimes be a little scary to the little ones, so all of our performers use their years of experience in physical comedy, dance, and the study of their various performance arts to make their Bunny characters approachable! I mean, seriously…. When was the last time you saw an Easter Bunny do the Fortnight dances? Or play practical jokes on the older kids? Our performers know how to perform for an array of ages! They know when to burst out with Energizer Bunny like energy, and when to calmly approach the littles and offer hugs to Mom and Dad to show the kids that there is nothing to be afraid of! Our Bunnies get all the laughs and really know how to make any event special!

Last year we had the opportunity to visit a corporate event! Our Bunny not only spent time taking photos with the families, but he even challenged some of the older kids to video games! And when all the kids were gone and it was time to clean up, Bunny stayed around a little bit longer for a ridiculous photoshoot with the office staff!

Our Easter Bunny is available to hire for all types of events! From photo-ops at company events! Or even a private backyard BBQ with friends and family! We can join your event for a quick “Telegram” style visit that lasts around 15 minutes, or Bunny can stay for hours, help with Easter Egg hunts, pose for photos, and play games with kids! We can customize your events in anyway that you imagine! We love bringing the magic of Easter alive for the little ones, and provide the comic relief the adults need after dealing with their sugar-high littles! Let our Bunny run the energy out of them with customized games, Bunny dance offs, and much much more! No one brings the magic like CG Entertainment!

We are so excited for the opportunity to celebrate Easter with all of our clients this year!

Call us today to hire our Easter Bunny for your Spring-time event! 503-547-7760! Talk to you soon!

This Summer Has Been VERY Special! Definitely One For The Books!

While every event we were involved in this summer was incredibly special and important to us, some of the best times we had were when we had the opportunity to team up with other female owned arts and entertainment companies!

Take a look at photos from one of the best corporate events we attended all year! Hired by the female owned and operated event entertainment company Flamebuoyant Productions!

Salina, Scary Spice, and Britney Spears mingled with guests and pumped up the dance floor all night!

Enjoying St. Patrick's Day Spirit

Irish fortune wishes you the best,

treasures and leprechauns define the rest.

The spirt of the day engulfs you, and let's everyone

enjoy in the party too...

March 17th is St Patrick's day

Every reason to celebrate in every beautiful way.

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Take a look at some of our past St. Patrick’s Day looks on a couple of our Gogo dancers! St. Patties is one of our favorite holidays to celebrate because it always means we get to attend an awesome themed party or two or four or five!

But if night life isn’t really your thing, we have plenty of other options! Surprise your kids with a leprechaun sighting in your back yard! Or spread the Irish cheer with a themed singing telegram! Whatever your imagination can dream up, we can make come true! Start planning your party today, with CG Entertainment in Portland, Oregon and Seattle, Washington and everywhere in between!

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We have family friendly and night life options for all of our entertainment!

Valentines Day

Valentines Day

Valentines originated as a Christian feast day honoring one or two early Christian Martyrs named Saint Valentine and, through later folk traditions, has become a significant cultural, religious and commercial celebration of romance and love.

Now days we celebrate by sending messages of love and affection to partners, family and friends. Couples send Valentine cards, flowers and chocolate.

We here at CG Entertainment like to include Singing Telegrams, a party for the kids or any other ideas you may have. Check out our web page and give us a call, we would love to be a part of your celebration.

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A sultry or romantic Singing Telegram delivered with roses and chocolates is the perfect way to let your loved one know that you are thinking of them on Valentines Day! Check out the videos below for audio examples of one of our main Singing Telegram performers!

What is a Flash Mob?

The first Flash Mob was created in Manhattan in 2003. It is a large gathering at which people perform unusual or seemingly random acts and then disperse. We here at CG Entertainment specialize in such shenanigans. We have done Flash Mobs for weddings, anniversaries, reunions and celebrating a grand opening of businesses or just because. We work with our own dancers or sometimes it is a mix of our performers and the people that hire us.  We will send videos to teach you the dance and organize everything. Give us a call or send us an email, we are happy to help.

All This Sun Can Only Mean One Thing… It's Officially Summer!

It's officially summer! And all of this sun is just one of the many reasons to celebrate this weekend because Portland and Seattle were jam packed with all types of events!

We kicked off Friday morning with three of our Polynesian dancers making an appearance at a Portland Gymnastics Camp in Beaverton for the third year in a row! The dancers performed a tribute to the Hawaiian Hula and a traditional Tahitian dance followed by an engaging, fun, and fact filled history lesson about Tahitian dance and a lesson wherein the older kids learned 7 basic Tahitian dance moves, and the younger ones choreograph their own Hula Dance that everyone performed together! After that the dancers headed across town to NE Portland to perform at a retirement community celebrating a summer Luau! The residence were captivated by both their tribute to the Hawaiian Hula, and multiple Tahitian choreographies, as well as a silk fan dance! But nothing could beat what came after the performance! What started out as taking photos with the residents and staff soon turned into a party of its own with group singing and sharing stories of days gone by, lots of hugs, and memories that will last a life time! On our way out, the event director took the time to come thank the dancers for their beautiful performances and for the time they took to make one-on-one connections with the residents! They told us they couldn’t wait to have us back for their Country Western themed party for which they will be hiring some of our Line Dancers and our Cowboy Comedian. They also want to have our Reptile Show out for one of their community enrichment events later this summer and we couldn't be more excited to celebrate and spend time with their residents again soon!

Simultaneously, over in the Hollywood district two of our B-Boys (breakdancers) performed and taught at a Taekwondo Summer Camp! The kids, parents, and teachers loved them so much they invited us back to close out another summer camp they are hosting in August! Here is what the client had to say via email as we were shoring up our next event:

“Just wanted to share my campers and our staff had so much fun yesterday! Thank you all so so much for coming. Looking forward to our next one.“ - Josh T.

Check out some photos we snapped at the event!

We closed out Friday with a Singing Telegram from our Billie Eilish character impersonator down in Albany, Oregon for a surprise 14th birthday party at a local bowling alley! Listen to what our client had to say;

“Thing went good, she was on time, professional and a pleasure……….I would like to leave a review, so let me know where to do so………………..It turned out GREAT!” - William W.

Check out some photos of our Billie Eilish impersonator!

Singing Telegrams and Character Impersonators are a great way to make any birthday celebration memorable! Not only do you get an engaging and beautiful performance from one of our endlessly talented vocalists and actors but it creates a fun (and often slightly embarrassing) opportunity to put your guest of honor in the limelight on their special day! We have many characters to choose from, from Marilyn Monroe to Sasquatch, a gorilla or monkey to a scary or silly clown! Generally, we can have your choice of any of our standard characters and songs but given enough time, we can create most any character that you’d like, learn and perform any song, or even create a custom parody song featuring personalized details you'd like for us to highlight in our performance!

Saturday was another incredible day of celebration and performance of all kinds! We kicked off Saturday morning with a Polynesian dancer, a break dancer, and a fire dancer at a summer pool party for a Beaverton, Oregon based fitness club! The place was packed and everyone enjoyed our mashup performance!

By mid day two of our character impersonators were out! Our Woman of Wonder visited a fair in Aumsville, Oregon and enjoyed an afternoon of photos with families and entertaining the many community event attendees with action packed silliness!

Take a look at some photos from our Woman of Wonder’s trip to Aumsville, OR!

Our JoJo Siwa impersonator attended a birthday party for a pair of twin 5 year olds in the SE Portland neighborhood of Sellwood - Moreland near Oaks Park! The party was a blast! JoJo Siwa and the kids applied glitter tattoos, bounced in a pink and purple bounce-house castle, and even danced and sang to all of the JoJo Siwa classics! Take a look at what our client had to say:

“Thank you for being a part of this core memory for my kiddos, it was so magical!!” - Tiffanie L.

Take a look at some photos from JoJo Siwa’s trip to SE Portland!

Our closing event of the evening was in Seattle, WA on Saturday evening! One of our Party Motivators and Line Party Dance Instructors joined our client Victoria for her 60th birthday where they danced into the night to classics like the Cupid Shuffle, Electric Slide, Footloose, and so much more! Our client wanted to be sure that everyone at her event would be engaged in dancing and there is no better way to keep the dance floor pumped than by hiring one of our Party Motivators! The client loved our dancer so much she asked her to extend her visit!

We are incredibly grateful for all of our clients and performers that bring magic to events all over Oregon and Washington!

Call us today to book an event! 503-547-7760 or email us at bookings@cigientertainment.com

Have a Real Life Mermaid Visit Your Next Event!

Time to celebrate Summer! Wouldn’t having a beautiful and magical, real-life mermaid come  visit your home for a backyard pool party be the perfect way to kickstart your summer? We have a new addition to CG Entertainment and her name is Mermaid Orielle, the most enchanting and rare creature to ever visit the shores of the PNW! 

She also would make a wonderful addition to a HOA pool party, a summer corporate event, or even your daughter’s next birthday party! Orielle can perform on land or water but of course water is where she shines.  On land she loves doing mermaid make-overs, story-time, and applying temporary glitter tattoos!  In water she can play games like Marco Polo, Simon Says swimming addition, and much much more!  Mermaid Orielle is full of fun ocean facts so not only will the experience be magical, it will be educational as well!

Don’t forget we have many other services just to fit any occasion. Maybe you have a graduate heading off to college, wouldn’t it be fun to send them a singing telegram? Or have a flash mob perform a special dance for them. We would be very honored to help you with any type of event you have in mind. Just give us a call or send us an email and we can get the ball rolling.

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We have "Night Life" and "Family Friendly" styles.

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Call us TODAY at 503-547-7760 or email us at bookings@cigientertainment.com

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Summer is Getting Us Excited to Celebrate the 4th of July!

Are you thinking about having a block party? Would you like to have some fire dancers to kick off your firework display? Or maybe you want Uncle Sam to show up to your party on stilts or Captain America for the youngsters! Maybe you’re a corporate event planner hiring for a company picnic and want yard games, performers, dancers, but you also need a sound system and a DJ and lights but you don’t know where to start! Guess what? You can start and finish here, we’ve got it all and we will coordinate with the performing artists and staff necessary to pull off the best company gathering while you relax and enjoy yourself for once!

Go Big or Small… Either Way Set it on Fire!

We can scale our performances up or down depending on what your budget is and what works best for your get together! We do single person fire performances and have choreographed up to a 10 person fire performance!

We can create a custom choreography to your favorite song or you can use one of our inhouse choreographies! Call us today to get set up with the best fire performers in Oregon and Washington!

Hire Polynesian Dancers for Your Event!

We have incredible Polynesian Fusion dancers that would be perfect for your event!

Generally the dancers perform for a 10-15 minute choreography that features traditional Tahitian dance and a tribute to Hawaiian Hula in a gorgeous traditional Tahitian style costume, followed by dance games and contests with your guests! Of course this could be tailored to work best with your event!

You can kick it up a notch by adding fire, as well! Bring the Luau to your back yard or holiday party!

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We have "Night Life" and "Family Friendly" styles.

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Call us TODAY at 503-547-7760 or email us at bookings@cigientertainment.com

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