For the past term and two weeks I have been practicing for Corinna’s Polyfest. Polyfest is like a big concert where we get to perform and showcase our culture for example there was Junior Maori, Tokelau/Tuvalu, Junior Samoan & Cook Island. I was apart of the Senior Samoan and Kapa Haka group.
For Senior Samoan we had six items they were Mitamitanga which was our entrance song, Tausagi Mai Manu E a collaborative dance with the boys, E Le Matalasi a song for the girls and also danced to, the boys fafa dance to Siva Samoa Remix and then finished off with a Taualuga which is a traditional finishing song and had a Taupou (a ceremonial hostess in charge of entertaining visitors etc usually a girl in high ranks) and that girl was Leitoria Talataina.
Our practices were hard because when we had practices it would that us ages to get into our line. So we had to practice lots more then all the other groups. We also had to practice our transitions, if you don’t know what transitions means it mean how you move around on the stage and how you get into different places during the performance.
After the performance my mum and dad said that they were really proud of me dancing in the Samoan group because she has never seen me dance in the Samoan group before. My dad also said that he could see that I was trying my best and trying to do a pukana.
What I think I could work on:
I think I could work on asking more people to help me learn the moves to the song.
I think I could work on smiling when we are dancing.
I think I could work on trying to be patient when we are waiting for our turn off stage.
I got feedback from Aria and Angel and they said:
Angel: I think you were really good at learning the actions to the song and the words to the song.
Aria: you were really good at learning the actions to the songs in kapa haka.
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