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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Siva Tau is a Samoan war dance performed by many Samoan athletes before competition (made especially famous on the Internet by the Samoan Rugby team). The Siva Tau has recently been used by the ...

Just days before her wedding, Madi decided to learn a traditional Samoan dance to honor her husband Samu’s heritage With only five days to prepare, she practiced between wedding events and even during ...

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 ...