Christmas biit Archives - The Marshall Islands Journal

Biit is Marshallese Olympics

By Journal on December 31, 2021 Christmas biit, Christmas Dance, IoonMaaj, Olympic Games, Protestant Church, Uliga, Wilmer Joel Feature Articles

The Marshallese version of the Olympic Games is Christmas jepta biit dancing. The amount of competition and dissing has always been apart of the jepta performances at Christmas time.Jeptas had the audience laughing throughout the Christmas Day and the next day at churches throughout Majuro.Though some jeptas were satisfied with their performance, others were surely […]

‘Biit’ rocks local Churches

By Journal on December 31, 2020 Christmas biit, Giff Johnson, Laura Protestant Church, Marshall Christian High School News Archive

Churches were the place to be Christmas Day as they came alive with amplified keyboard tunes and energetic biit dancing to celebrate Christmas…with some of the Christmas celebration spilling over into Saturday.Each year, the audiences remember one or more special jepta performances, outstanding in some way. Each year, the Marshalls Christian High School jepta from […]