The haka is one of rugby’s best known traditions, with the ceremonial Maori dance performed pre-match by New Zealand rugby sides before international fixtures. Haka were traditionally performed for a ...

New Zealand celebrated its gold medal in women’s Olympic Rugby 7s with a special version of the haka, showing all the fierceness and focus that had seen them become worthy winners against France in ...

Harrington claimed bronze in the freeski slopestyle final to win the nation’s second medal in as many days following Zoi Sadowski-Synnott’s silver medal yesterday in Big Air. Members and staff of the ...

When actor Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson performed a war dance in the movie Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw, he was paying homage to his Samoan roots. The best known war dance is arguably the New ...

New Zealand on Sunday reclaimed the world record for the largest mass haka after more than 6,000 people performed the legendary Maori war dance, dethroning France. The record was broken in deafening ...

Laie, Hawaii • You've seen it on TV or at a football game — men in formation, bending knees and arms in synchronized gestures, chanting unfamiliar words in unison, grunting, scowling. The exotic ...

The haka is one of the most vivid symbols of Maori culture — the indigenous group who make up just under a fifth of New Zealand’s population. Though New Zealand’s football team will not perform it ...

The haka has become an accepted part of sporting contests, but should it be so? - Getty Images/Philip Fong Sometimes it can feel as if the haka’s primal intensity is diluted by its sheer ubiquity.

It’s what representing their country is all about – walking out in New Zealand’s All Blacks jersey, facing their opposition, and delivering a spine-tingling, hair-raising Haka before the whistle blows ...

The haka will be the main topic of conversation when New Zealand travel to face England at Twickenham in the 2024 Autumn Nations Series curtain-raiser on Saturday. This traditional Māori dance of haka ...