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The
30th anniversary of the Aotearoa Traditional Māori Performing Arts
Festival comes around in February 2002 and will be staged in Tāmaki-makau-rau.
The festival will feature the best teams from the regional competitions
that have been taking place over the last few months.
Te Tairāwhiti
recently held their regional competition in Gisborne with nine groups
battling it out on the stage. Waihirere,
Whāngārā-mai-tawhiti, Boys and Girls High School, Ngāti
Porou Rangatahi Tūranga Ararau 1, Tūranga Ararau 2, Hokowhitu,
Aotearoa Wānanga, and Toihoukura all stunned the very vocal crowd
with their performances!
In the end it was
Whāngārā-mai-tawhiti who came out on top. This roopu was
first established in 1961, and was revived in 1976. The tutors are Derek
Lardelli and Mere Waihi.
Some members of Whāngārā-mai-tawhiti
share their experience of the Te Tairāwhiti regional competitions:
"While we were on
stage performing our heart and soul out, the crowd were shouting at the
top of their lungs. All our hearts were beating as one at that moment
in time," says team member Jojo Rangihaeta.
"Nō reira
e te whānau o Whāngārā, he mihi aroha ki a koutou
ki ngā rōpū o Te Tairāwhiti he mihi nui ki a koutou
katoa. Ko ngā rōpū e uru atu ki te Whakataetae ā-iwi
he nui te mihi ki a koutou ngā kaiwhakakite e whakaatu ana i runga
i te atamira."
Nā Jojo Rangihaeata
 "Haruru
ana, tutu ana te puehu
Kua tae mai te tira
o Whāngārā-Mai-Tawhiti
E kore te kumara e
korero mo tona reka.
Patuki tahi nga manawa
whakaaro tahi umere ana te ngakau
E te whanau Mauri
Ora" 
Nā Turuki Tiananga
"Ko ōku
nei whakaaro he tino rawe ki te haere mai ki ngā whakaaro tino whakahirahira
o ia rohe, me te matakitaki i ngā kapa haka Rangatira o Aotearoa.
Tēnā koutou katoa mō te kapa haka rawe atu o te ao!!!
"
Arohanui Te hunga
matakitaki
Teams who will represent
Te Tairawhiti at the Nationals 2002 are Whāngārā-mai-tawhiti,
Tūranga Wahine Tūranga Tane, Tūranga Ararau, and Waihirere.
 
TKI resources
Unwrapping
the arts
TKI's unwrapping the
arts community provides learning examples for music and dance, adapting
action songs and chants (www.tki.org.nz/e/arts/).
Māori
education
The Māori education
community (www.tki.org.nz/e/maorieducation/)
has news, curriculum support material, lesson plans and more, all in te
reo Māori.
The
Arts Online
The Arts Online (www.tki.org.nz/r/arts/artspd/index_e.php)
provides practical resources to support teachers to implement The Arts
in the New Zealand Curriculum.
Kapa haka
Kapa haka
The kapa haka
festival site (www.kapahaka.org.nz/intro.htm)
has news about the festival, team descriptions, festival history, some
quizzes, and FAQs.
Aotearoa
Traditional Māori Performing Arts Society
The Aotearoa Traditional
Māori Performing Arts Society site (www.atmpas.org.nz/)
has the competition rules, judging criteria, and profiles of the national
finalists.
Waiata
This site (http://waiata.maori.org.nz/)
has pictures and explanations of traditional instruments, music files
of songs and haka, and Māori music history.
Ihi
Frenzy
The New Zealand
Ballet is touring the country in June and July performing Ihi Frenzy (www.nzballet.org.nz/),
featuring Te Matarae I Orehu, the current national champions of the Aotearoa
Traditional Māori Performing Arts Competition. The site explains
who is behind Ihi Frenzy and how they got to where they are today.
Curriculum links on TKI
The Arts in the New
Zealand Curriculum document (www.tki.org.nz/r/arts/curriculum/statement/contents_e.php)
is available on TKI.
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