This is a similar example of what I want to try and do. I want to work closely looking at the hand movements and posture. I want to look at how these actions relate to our cultural values as Samoans.
This is a paragraph from the site http://www.aucklandartgallery.com/explore-art-and-ideas/artwork/19000/siva-in-motion
Dressed in a Victorian mourning dress, Yuki Kihara performs a taualuga - a traditional Siva Samoa (Samoan dance). Inspired by conversations with survivors of the 2009 Tsunami, Siva In Motion describes the movements of the wave which took the lives of more than 189 people in American Samoa, Samoa and Tonga. The artist has commented: Siva In Motion also draws upon - and contributes to- the Samoan concepts of Ta and Va: ta means to beat or to demarcate time through beats; and va denotes the space between things or social space between people.
So we see the art of the dance can be used to tell stories with the use of her hands, levels and posture.
Dressed in a Victorian mourning dress, Yuki Kihara performs a taualuga - a traditional Siva Samoa (Samoan dance). Inspired by conversations with survivors of the 2009 Tsunami, Siva In Motion describes the movements of the wave which took the lives of more than 189 people in American Samoa, Samoa and Tonga. The artist has commented: Siva In Motion also draws upon - and contributes to- the Samoan concepts of Ta and Va: ta means to beat or to demarcate time through beats; and va denotes the space between things or social space between people.
So we see the art of the dance can be used to tell stories with the use of her hands, levels and posture.
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