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The Maulu'ulu [a] is an indigenous dance performed by the Samoan people.Contemporary ma'ulu'ulu compositions and choreographies are generally performed by female dancers, although some villages have a tradition of men and women dancing together.
The Taualuga is a traditional Samoan dance, considered the apex of Samoan performance art forms and the centerpiece of the Culture of Samoa. This dance form has been adopted and adapted throughout western Polynesia, most notably in Samoa, The Kingdom of Tonga, Uvea, Futuna, and Tokelau. [1] The renowned Tongan version is called the tau'olunga.
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 ...
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If the dance is an effort of a local community, young and old perform. The youngest children then cutely sit at the ends of the rows. In the ʻUiha tradition the arrangement is different: the women sit on the ground in the frontrow(s) but the men stand behind them and act more as in a lakalaka .
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.
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