Traditional Samoan

Dances
 Some kinds of Samoa
dancing

Samoa dance is the one area of Samoa culture

which has been least affected whit western
civilsation
 SIVA

SAMOA DANCE TRADIONTS REFLECT CONTACT

BETWEEN SAMOAN CULTURE AND OTHERS
CULTURES FROM THE EAST AND WEST.THE
TRADITIONAL SAMOAN DANCE IS THE TAUALUGA.
MEANS JUMPING;THE PERFOMER,DRESSED IN
PANTS(CALLED TUIGA)COMPOSED OF LEAVES
AND HUMAN HAIR,USALLY SITS AND PORTRAYS
AN EVERY ACTION.THE DANCE REPRESENT
RELATION SHIP.INFLUENCES FROM RAP CAN BE
DETECTED,BUT TRADIOTIONAL SAMOAN STYLES
OF MOVEMENTS INTERPRETED AS A MICROCOSM
OF SAMOAN SOCIETY.SAMOA DANCE HAS BEEN
CHARACTERIZED AS A MEANS OF
MANTEINTANINF SAMOAN IDENTITY IN CONTACT
 FIRE DANCING

TRADIONAL SAMOA FIRE DANCING IS ONE OF

THE GRAT CULTURAL EXPERIENNCES OF
SAMOA.THESE ARE PERFORMED AT ALL THE
MAJOR HOTELS IN VARIOUS FORMS.THE
DANCE ROUTINE IS ERFORMED TO UPBEAT
RHYTHMIC DRUMMING.HAND CLAPPING
AND SINGING. A DANCE TROUPE CAN
INCLUDE FROM 2 TO AS MANY AS TEN ROWS
OF DANCERS, WITH THE MEN JUMPING UP
AND DOWN AND THE WOMEN MOVING
 SAMOAN MUSIC
• In the traditional Siva dance the musicians
seat themselves on one side and proceed to
beat a wooden drum at the sound of which
the guests start musicians beat to assemble.
The handsome brown bodies of the dancers
glisten with shells.