After feeling disconnected with his Samoan heritage Logan started learning Fire Knife dancing, known as Siva Afi. Now, he teaches Siva Afi all around the world through online workshops. 🔥 Logan is one of twenty-nine winners for the ABC’s Takeover Melbourne competition. Check out other stories by young people here: https://ab.co/3oBnk8N 🎥 Marc Eiden | Heywire

Storytelling through Siva Samoa. Music and dance serve as repositories that preserve our history, cultural traditions and genealogy. These art forms bring our land and ocean to life. I continue to learn how Pacific cultural arts can serve as a portal into the past, to inform the present and help me to better navigate my future as a Pacific person. Cultural arts has always been centred in life. Dance is the most authentic physical and spiritual representation of how much our islands, people, land