Two of Abbey Tufue-Wood's students teach her a traditional Samoan dance to perform for her Samoan husband at their wedding.

For more than three decades, Aunty Kiki Sotoa Solia has dedicated her life to Taupou Samoa, sharing the culture of Polynesia and ensuring that longstanding traditions are carried on.

Breathing, stretching, reaching – the dancers pulse and push to stand, coming alive like a taniwha – a sea-monster implied by the Samoan words rumbling through the air, “ malie, tagifa.” Meanwhile, ...

A favorite amusement for old and young is the siva, the word meaning to dance. It is not, properly speaking, dancing, but is more like an acting charade, for, although accompanied with music ...

Moemoana Schwenke, 19, is one of few women in the world to perform 'siva afi' or fire-knife dancing — a Samoan ceremonial dance traditionally performed by men which the Aussie teen is fighting ...

Wellington's Tautua Dance School is bringing a team of 20 to the city in October to hold workshops, and founder Jayden Luapo says the school's aim is to keep Siva Samoa as traditionalas possible.

And now this offseason he's making headlines by introducing his Panther teammates to the Samoan war dance Siva Tau.

A Samoan choreographer has been appointed as resident artist to Pacific Dance New Zealand. Tupe Lualua is a 10 year veteran of dance and is an arts lecturer at Whitireia polytechnic in New Zealand.

A Siva Samoa dance academy based in West Auckland is on a mission to preserve and nurture Samoan culture through performing arts. This year, over 200 individuals packed out the Trust Stadium to ...