The crowd watching the 'crumping'!!!
'Crumping' in action!
This traditional dancing was amazing, looked effortless but all in complete time with each other, great to watch...
On Friday after work Graham and I met at Helen and Johns house in Otane as we were going to the Maori New Year Celebrations in Waipukurau. Matariki in maori means 'a group of stars'. This New Year Celebration has been important to Maori's for years...traditionally the visibility of the Matariki...determined the type of crop for the year. The brighter the stars, the warmer the season, thus creating a productive crop. Maori's gather from all iwi's ( individual groups) to plan the year ahead.
We arrived at about 8.00pm, the event was a lot smaller than we had anticipated. There was a large hall area where kids played basketball at one end and at the other end there was a stage where Maori's displayed tradional dance and 'crumping'....a new thing to us...it is a form of dance and lots of teeneagers got up to show us how it was done.
There was supposed to be fireworks aswell.....but they didn't happen. All in all a little disappointing....but I suppose it depends on your expectations, I am sure all of the other people who attended had a great time.
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