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Samoan dance

Samoan dance traditions reflect contact between Samoan culture and other cultures from the East and West.

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View of a traditional Samoan dance performed at the Pasifika Festival, 2016. Performers are wearing traditional Samoan dresses 'puletasi' and decorations.
Adana Dobranis · CC BY 4.0
View of a traditional Samoan dance performed at the Pasifika Festival, 2016. Performers are wearing traditional Samoan dresses 'puletasi' and decorations.
Adana Dobranis · CC BY 4.0
Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 4442.021 is a part of image group 4442.000 . Engraved view, b&w. See note field above. Haskell 18. Subjects:
United States Exploring Expedition (1838-1842) Wilkes, Charles, 1798-1877 Agate, A. T. Jones, Alfred · Public domain
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The tradition

Samoan dance traditions reflect contact between Samoan culture and other cultures from the East and West. The space in which dance is conducted has been interpreted as a microcosm of Samoan society. Samoan dance has been characterized as a means of maintaining Samoan identity in contact with other civilizations. 1

Traditional dances

Fa'ataupati Maulu'ulu Sasa Siva afi Siva tau Taualuga Matamatame 'Ailao 1

The text above is adapted from the Wikipedia article “Samoan dance”, available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 licence. 1

Samoan dance is type of dance, according to the structured record cited below. This entry was generated automatically from that record and has not yet been reviewed by a person familiar with the tradition. 2

The source record links this tradition to 1 external register, which can be verified through the citation. 2

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