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
But the repeated grunting on every shot is as unsportsmanlike as doing a war dance after every winner.
From New York Times ● Mar. 7, 2018
Accomplished ballroom dancers, sluggards who knew neither traditional nor Western dancing, all joined in the indlamu, the traditional Zulu war dance.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
