Friday, June 06, 2008

fire dancing



I am in Apia for a long weekend because a new peace corps group (group 80) arrived on Wednesday and we will be celebrating with a Fiafia tomorrow night.


I was lucky to be in tonight because it was the "Siva Afi" (samoan for fire dancing) competition tonight. Let me just say this is one Samoan custom that just never gets old. The guy in this video qualified to compete in the finals on Saturday. Pretty amazing. Enjoy

1 comment:

Barb Carusillo said...

This is so great that you included this video! My daughter, who is in Group 79, wrote in her blog (Seereeves) about the competition, and included some great pictures, but it is great to see the actual movements and hear the beat. Cool! Lets the rest of us live vicariously a bit through you! Thanks