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Siva Samoa is the Samoan term for a Samoan dance. [1] It is practiced in Samoa, and around the world by the Samoan diaspora. [2] There are siva schools in New Zealand, [3] Australia, [4] and the United States. [2] Traditional Samoan dancing is one area of the culture that has been the least affected by western civilisation.
Boy performing a Samoa fire dance - siva afi. Samoan dance traditions reflect contact between Samoan culture and other cultures from the East and West. The space in which dance is conducted has been interpreted as a microcosm of Samoan society. Samoan dance has been characterized as a means of maintaining Samoan identity in contact with other ...
The Manu Siva Tau is a Samoan war dance, performed by the Samoan sporting teams before each match. The national rugby union team used to perform the traditional ' Maulu'ulu Moa' on tour. Prior to the 1991 World Cup, the 'Manu' war chant was composed, it was considered to be more effective at psyching up players.
"There is so much love, gratitude, and respect conveyed here without a single word."
The traditional Samoan dance is the siva. The female siva is with gentle movements of the hands and feet in time to music. The sasa is a group dance performed sitting to a drum rhythm. Samoan males traditionally perform the fa'ataupati (slap dance), usually performed in a group with no music accompaniment. Other types of dance are modern dance ...
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The Tongan ma'ulu'ulu in its current stylistic performance is more akin to the Samoan Sasa. The Manu Samoa rugby team used to perform a lively version of the ma'ulu'ulu as a pre-game warm-up ritual until 1991 when the siva tau was choreographed (based on the Maori haka made famous by the New Zealand All Blacks rugby squad.
The fire eater loaned him some fuel, he wrapped some towels around his knife, and thus the Fire Knife Siva Afi Dance was revived. Although today many commercial performers perform the dance with short staffs or knives without blade, this is not authentic fire knife dance and is unacceptable in Samoan cultural practices except for training purposes.