war dance

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When Samoa's rugby league team performed a traditional war dance, the Siva Tau, before their first Test against England last Sunday, the players became involved in an intense standoff.

From BBC • Oct. 30, 2024

The haka, the ceremonial war dance or challenge, is perhaps the best-known Māori cultural touchstone outside New Zealand, due to its use by the All Blacks, the country’s three-time World Cup-champion rugby team.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 19, 2023

Movement director Jonathan Goddard is in more of a haka mood, he says, before briefly demonstrating the Maori war dance.

From Washington Post • Mar. 1, 2023

For the first couple weeks, he was trying to understand how Jarin and I worked and he was frustrated, but once we did the scene where he does a shamanic war dance, things changed.

From New York Times • Apr. 22, 2022

Worsley gave a lecture on New Zealand and taught several volunteers the Maori war dance, the haka.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong