Siva Mai! 🇼🇸 Beautiful Siva Samoa Dance Performed at the Happy 4th Anniversary Dinner for EFKS Smithfield Congregational Christian Church of Samoa in Sydney, Australia. 5.12.2020 | Tonga Vision

🇼🇸 Beautiful Siva Taualuga Samoa Dance Performed at the Happy 4th Anniversary Dinner for EFKS Smithfield Congregational Christian Church of Samoa in Sydney, Australia. 5.12.2020 | Tonga Vision

🇼🇸 Beautiful Siva Samoa Taualuga dance performance by 🌺 Miss Samoa NSW 🇹🇴Miss Lady Maria Tonga Australia Showcase ✨ Sydney, Australia. 26.5.2023 | Tonga Vision

The beauty of a Samoan taualuga is the taupou's ability to free-style her movements at any given moment she is honored with the task of performing one. Ma'ulu'ulus are choreographed, authentic Samoan taualugas are not - they're performed from the heart. Taualugas are not choreographed movements to each lyric verbatim. A genuine taualuga is when a taupou's limbs dance & move freely based on emotion. Here is the youngest student of The Academy of Siva Samoa at 5 year's old, my sister Koe's daughte

Storytelling through Siva Samoa. Music and dance serve as repositories that preserve our history, cultural traditions and genealogy. These art forms bring our land and ocean to life. I continue to learn how Pacific cultural arts can serve as a portal into the past, to inform the present and help me to better navigate my future as a Pacific person. Cultural arts has always been centred in life. Dance is the most authentic physical and spiritual representation of how much our islands, people, land

12 reactions | Siva is the Samoan  word for dance. But for second and third-generation Samoans living in Australia, it means much more. In the diaspora, connecting to our cultural heritage helps us stay grounded. Research shows it also helps us thrive.  Read more: https://www.abc.net.au/pacific/siva-samoa-second-third-generations-samoans-australia-identity/103088760 | ABC Pacific | Facebook