SAN DIEGO (KGTV) — For more than three decades, Aunty Kiki Sotoa Solia has dedicated her life to Taupou Samoa, sharing the culture of Polynesia and ensuring that longstanding traditions are carried on ...
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 ...
When Abbey Tufue-Wood started planning her wedding, she had more on her to-do list than to choose flowers and cakes. She was also needed to learn how to dance. But not just any dance, a Siva. “Doing ...
Bride Madi learned a traditional Samoan dance in just five days to honor her husband Samu’s family on their wedding day — and her TikTok quickly went viral Ashley Vega is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE.
England’s Mikey Lewis went head-to-head with Samoa’s Gordon Chan Kum Tong during one of the most intense Siva Tau’s ever seen. Samoa performed their traditional pre-game war dance, known as the Siva ...
The day Dwayne Johnson’s mother came to visit the Kauai set of “Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw,” emotions were already high. But not even the WWE superstar known in the ring as The Rock was ...
The author (right) performing a Samoan siva (dance) with her cousin. Growing up, I was often asked what my ethnicity was. In the majority of these instances, someone would ask because they thought ...