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huri kōaro

1. (noun) retrograde (dance).

Nuka tito nekehanga: Ko ngā momo rautaki ka whakamahia e te kaitito nekehanga, pēnei i te tāruarua, te tāwhai, te huripoki, te huri kōaro, te tāpiripiri me te whakakaurahi (RMR 2017). / Choreographic device; Strategies used by a choreographer, such as repetition, imitation, inversion, retrograde, accumulation and augmentation (RMR 2017).

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