In a tiny gymnasium at Foisia Park in Carson, California, an eclectic group of women ranging in age from 14 to 56 line up in rows, ready for instruction at their first siva Samoa (Samoan dance) lesson ...

Teuila Hughes, a doctoral candidate in Dance Studies at the University of Auckland, said her childhood in Fiji laid the ...

The annual Siva Afi Festival, an event celebrating traditional Samoan fire knife dancing, will light up the Māngere Arts Centre-Ngā Tohu o Uenuku for two nights this weekend, but festival director Amo ...

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 ...

Pouring rain in Brisbane couldn't dampen the blaze or the passion at Toa Ole Afi-Pati Levasa, the Samoan fire knife dancing competition billed as Australia's first. Held at the Kingston Butter Factory ...

FRANKIE LUVU, the "Boa from Samoa" who roamed the Palouse to the tune of 19 tackles for loss from 2014-17, turned heads last season in his first, high-octane campaign with the Carolina Panthers after ...