page_title: Fakaseasea
section_title: Tuvaluan dance music
hierarchical_section_title: Fakaseasea / Tuvaluan dance music
caption_attribution_description: English: A young woman, a proud Tuvaluan girl dances on the Tuvalu stage at the 2011 Pasifika festival, Auckland, New Zealand.
context_page_description: The fakaseasea is a tradition dance song of Tuvalu. Dancing songs are the most common type of the traditional Tuvaluan songs, with other tradition dance styles including fakanau and fatele.
context_section_description: Dancing songs are the most common type of traditional Tuvaluan songs.  Older style dancing songs were known to be performed while sitting, kneeling or standing. The two primary traditional dances of Tuvalu are the fakanau (for men) and oga (for women) and the fakaseasea.
  The modern fatele involves the women on their feet, dancing in lines; with the men facing the dancers, sitting on the floor beating the time with their hands on the mats or on wooden boxes, such as tea chests.
caption: A Tuvaluan dancer at Auckland's Pasifika Festival
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