During demonstrations outside Wellington parliament, some performed ceremonial Maori dance. Ngati Toa, an indigenous tribe in New Zealand, denounced a group of anti-vaccine protesters for performing a ...

Rawiri Waititi, co-leader of the Māori party, was ejected from New Zealand’s parliament on Wednesday. Waititi was denouncing reportedly racist rhetoric from other party leaders and performed a ...

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said it wasn’t his first “sword dance.” Tillerson, President Trump and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross participated in a ceremonial sword dance with Saudi officials ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. This archival film shows two ceremonial dances of New Guinea. The first dance is for the initiation of ...

The haka is a ceremonial dance with roots in the Maori history of New Zealand Lindsay Kimble is the Executive Editor, News at PEOPLE. She have been working at PEOPLE for nine years. Her work has ...

The samba and bossa nova dances that we have come to associate with Brazilian culture are just the tip of the iceberg of the ceremonial movement, song and percussion of the Afro-Brazilian tradition.

The English Folk Dance and Song Society was formed in 1932 by the merger of two organizations, the Folk-Song Society, and the English Folk Dance Society. The Folk-Song Society, founded in 1898, was ...

New Zealand's Nico Porteous won men’s freeski halfpipe gold at the 2022 Winter Games and his teammates celebrated his win in the best way they knew how: A ceremonial dance. Porteous was greeted by his ...