Bonus Activity: Musical Festivals – Matatini
In New Zealand, a huge festival is held every two years, called Te Matatini.
Māori. Kapa Haka groups from around New Zealand are invited to attend the
festival and each group gives a 25-minute performance. The performances are
judged and the best teams win prizes.
The gold medal winning team from this year (2017) was Te Kapa Haka o Whāngārā Mai Tawhiti.
Watch these three clips from previous Te Matatini festivals.
Te Iti Kahurangi
Te Puku o Te Ika
1. Tamatea Arikinui - Rank - 9 and a half /10 - The reason why this is in first
place is because while there singing the girls are dancing and the boys a moving
side to die like the wave. All of them are singing together.
2. Te Puku o Te Ika - Rank - 9/10 - The reason why this is in second place is because
they sing with pride and someone has past away :(
3. Te Iti Kahurangi - Rank - 7/10 - The reason why this is last is not because I don't like
it but the first and second placers were kind of better. But this is very good.
BONUS POINTS: 6
Kia ora Loto,
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed reading your post and the explanations that you gave for ranking the three videos in order from 1 - 3. I, too, really liked Tamatea Arikinui and thought that the team performing the waiata did a lovely job with their performance.
Have you ever performed in front of a group of people? I had to speak in front of a large audience the other day for my job at the university and it made me really nervous. I'm hoping that, with time, I'll find that it gets easier :)
I hope that you will continue to blog with us this summer. You've been on fire - posting so many blogging activities already. Way to go!
Keep up the great work, Loto.
Best,
Rachel :)
Aloha Loto
ReplyDeleteMy name is Sarah and I go to Glen Innes School
Wow! good work for completing this activity. Have you ever performed a haka before?