Kahurangi Dance company

We watched the dance company today, and my teacher asked us to write a reflection on what we saw. Here is my reflection i have shared with you.

The show begins and the dancers creep onto the stage… “KIA ORA”  shouts one of the dancers “KIA ORA” we all screech back.

Pania of the reef …

“Now our first dance is about a beautiful lady called Pania and how she got turned into a reef” explains the leader of the group. The music beams across the hall and the dancers begin their dance of Pania. As the gorgeous Pania character walks onto the stage I hear one of the men shout a chant to the audience, The gorgeous lady (Pania) explains how she happily plays with the other fish in the sea. Then one day a man of a tribe came to a stream to get some fresh water when he saw the beautiful lady watching him from the bushes (pania was fascinated with this man so she watched him) He was fond of her so he asked her to marry him,  secretly, she accepted. One night Panias love made her cooked food (Pania was not allowed to eat cooked food because she wouldn’t be able to go back to the sea) and he fed it to her, she screamed and the fish of the sea turned her into a reef. Some people say that they still see Pania across the sea.

There were many others and the dancers were very enthusiastic but Pania of the reef was my favorite because it was really interesting and I learnt a lot. I would definitely recommend watching that again because those dancers were truly amazing and i’m sure you and many others will love it :)