Culture of Nauru (English Wikipedia)

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Viviani, Nancy (1970). Nauru: Phosphate and Political Progress (PDF). Canberra: ANU Press. p. 158.
Fabricius, Wilhelm (1992). Nauru: 1888-1900: An account in German and English based on official records of the Colonial Section of the German Foreign Office held by the Deutsches Zentralarchiv in Potsdam (PDF). Canberra: Australian National University. p. 271. ISBN 978-0731513673. The Nauruan dances which I have seen are not notable for their wealth of distinct figures. They are accompanied by singing and consist in tripping to and fro, swaying the body, slapping the thighs and chest and making turns.

Hunting the Collectors: Pacific Collections in Australian Museums, Art Galleries and Archives. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 2014. p. 159. ISBN 978-1443871006.
Oates, John F. (19 October 1999). Myth and Reality in the Rain Forest: How Conservation Strategies are Failing in West Africa. Berkeley: University of California Press. p. XI. ISBN 978-0520222526.
The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: Australia and the Pacific Islands Vol.9. Milton Park: Taylor & Francis. 2017. p. 450. ISBN 978-1351544320. At the Pacific Festival of Arts in 1985 and 1988, sixth-graders at the Nauru Primary School presented the frigate bird (iti), a Nauruan dance. The students practiced daily for two months. The boys clapped and sang while the girls danced, por-traying te birds' flight and perching.... In 1994, at the Children's Convention in Fukuoka, Japan, ten eleven-year-old boys and girls from Nauru performed the dogoropa, a dance with sticks, which men and women from Nauru had performed at the Festival of Arts in 1980.
Nauru Business Law Handbook Volume 1: Strategic Information and Basic Laws. International Business Publications, USA. 2013. p. 108. ISBN 978-1438770598.

Indirectly influenced by German colonialism, reigen in this cultural context is a German word that implies styles of circular-moving dances in Nauru's historical past, implying that historical Nauruan traditional dances tend to be informal.^[3]