Flames licked the stage and smoke wafted above the Mangere arts centre as siva afi warriors spun, swung and threw traditional ...

Siva Afi - a Samoan fire dancer. Source: Samoa Tourism Bureau. Ua tuai ona faataunuu le tauvaga lona 20 o siva afi faavaomalo i Samoa ona o Sa ma Vavao o puipuiga o le KOVITI-19. Peita'i o loo iai le ...

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 ...

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 ...

England forward Mike McMeeken has spoken out about Samoa’s controiversial pre-match Siva Tau ahead of Saturday’s second Test showdown at AMT Headingley. The Samoan players advanced to within ...

HONOLULU, HAWAII (KITV4) The second annual LEGACY—THE SIVA AFI, with the fire knife competition produced by Malu Productions and Tali’s Polynesia is being held Saturday night, 10-7-2023 at Sea Life ...

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 ...

Pacific Island languages have featured on SBS Radio for decades. As SBS Radio celebrates 40 years on air - another Pacific Islands language - Samoan is continuing to cater to that community's growing ...

As the light fades over Werribee beach, a teenager sets a fire. He lights both ends of a long, hooked knife, then looks out over the ocean, his face illuminated by the dancing flames. And then he ...

Siva opens with all the drama and depth of a Caravaggio painting. The lighting, or more the darkness, is dimly lit, minimal. The audience glimpses fragments of limbs and muscles gelled together as a ...