Samoan Dancers

I bought a video camera just before going to the Pacific Arts Festival and just figured out how to downsize the video from high density to a windows media file which can be posted on the blog (this means relatively poor quality, but you can get the idea). This is a dance troop from Samoa, and they are doing a slap dance called the "sasa". You may notice some of the movements represent fishing and other activities related to food preparation and survival. These dances were used to pass stories from one generation to the next.