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

Bride’s Siva Samoa 🇼🇸 Perosi’s Siva Samoa — a graceful tribute to her roots, her strength, her journey into love. Groom : @vui_vagana_tevaga_alan Bride : @perosiroma Ceremony Venue | @New Lynn EFKS Reception Venue | @Malaeola Community Centre Livestream | @lopstream Photographer | @ethanlowryphotography Hair | @hairbyloa MUA | @finalatumakeup Wedding dress | @jenny.bridal Cake | @faledekeke Cars | @Yours Sincerely Decor | @lnteventsdecoration DJ | @DJMike #SivaSamoa #SamoanBride #CulturalElega

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🇼🇸 🇹🇴 ❤️ Siva Samoa dance by Bride's gorgeous nieces and nephews ✨ Honouring and celebrating Newlyweds Sioeli Faka'anaua Ki 'Itaniti and Malia Fineone Puna Talau #love #wedding #siva #dance #Samoa #Tonga #Niue | Tonga Vision

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

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