SAN DIEGO (KGTV) — 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 ...

Siva opens with all the drama and depth of a Caravaggio painting. The lighting, or more the darkness, is dimly lit, minimal. The audience glimpses fragments of limbs and muscles gelled together as a ...

We’ve seen “The Rock” perform ballet in “The Game Plan” and Haka dance in “The Fate of the Furious,” but in “Hobbs & Shaw,” he gets his moves from his Samoan background. Dwayne Johnson (as Hobbs): “I ...

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 ...

When Abbey Tufue-Wood started planning her wedding, she had more on her to-do list than to choose flowers and cakes. She was also needed to learn how to dance. But not just any dance, a Siva. “Doing ...

Gordon Chan Kum Tong was screaming in Mikey Lewis’ face during Samoa’s Siva Tau (BBC) England’s Mikey Lewis went head-to-head with Samoa’s Gordon Chan Kum Tong during one of the most intense Siva ...

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England’s Mikey Lewis went head-to-head with Samoa’s Gordon Chan Kum Tong during one of the most intense Siva Tau’s ever seen. Samoa performed their traditional pre-game war dance, known as the Siva ...