LO 7 – Recognise and consider the ethics of choices and actions.
For Culturama, I went into auditions sure that I wanted to celebrate New Zealand’s culture through dance. As New Zealand in the Culturama was always an only boy dance in the past we wanted to do something different this year and make it available to girls as well, showing equality in the auditions. During the first practice, our group decided that we were going to keep it very traditional in terms of chanting, movements and style. Our costumes were chosen tastefully to display the Maori symbol and express it in the spotlight. Our movements were learnt from traditional Hakka dances and we learnt the original chanting used in New Zealand to honour the origin and heritage of the tribes.