Telling Stories Through Dance

We have been looking at various types of art and their ability to tell stories. This week we have been looking at dance, specifically the Haka from the Maori culture. It is considered to be culturally offensive to perform the Haka without appreciation of the history and intention of the dance, and so we learnt about history of the Haka and the reasons why it is performed (which are many and varied) before giving it a go. We were surprised to learn both men and women perform the Haka however the way they do this differs slightly.

Then it was time to have a go at telling our own story and share a message we wanted to tell through dance. We only had a short while to practice and then some of us shared what we had come up with.



"We were going in the rugby grand final and we were really pumped. We were fighting all the people and kicking the ball into the goal".

This is a dance they came up with about their shared passion, cats.

This is about fighting with your friends.

This is about boys being stronger than girls

This is about anger and coming out the other-side of it.

This is about brother/sister relationships