Siva Samoa!!!

Siva Samoa!!!

The traditional culture of Samoa is a communal way of life-based on Fa'a Samoa, the unique socio-political culture. In Samoan culture, most activities are done together. In the Samoan culture, there are 3 main parts, that is faith, family, and music. The aiga or extended family lives and works together. 

In the Siva Samoa I found the actions challenging because I couldn't memorise it. The Siva Samoa dance actions was hard to remember it because we only practised it for only a few days.

During the Siva Samoa dance I enjoyed learning the Siva Samoa with my friends and also because it was only girls , Most of us felt more comfortable because the boys were away in their own time practising their Lome-Lome. The Lome-Lome which is a Samoan slap dance that boys do, The Lome Lome is hard because they slap their selves fast and hard so it hurts.

In the Siva Samoa, there are meanings to the actions they use in the Siva Samoa the actions are meanings are 

Mo'emo'e ( Run ) that's the first move in the Siva Samoa 

Ifo ( Bow ) Is when you take a bow then you 

Bring your hands down and up slowly which is pulling your pants up 

Bring your hands down from the top which is putting a shirt on 

Up and down which is brushing your hair

Put one hand on your knee and one hand in the air and move left and right then you swap to the other. 

... Which is Putting your shoes on then that's the end.

I and my friends have learned a short Siva Samoa from this video below try it and enjoy it!

What I'm looking forward to is having fun learning the different cultural
dances and meanings of their cultures...