🇨🇦monte on Instagram: "Traditional Samoan female dance, most commonly expressed through siva, is characterized by controlled grace, fluidity, and restraint. Movements prioritize storytelling rather than spectacle, with soft arm extensions, flowing hand gestures, and subtle wrist rotations used to evoke the ocean, wind, birds, genealogy, or everyday village life. The upper body remains poised, hips move minimally in smooth side-to-side or circular motions, and footwork is light and grounded. Fa