Folk dance 2

The School Fancy Dress

On Wednesday night, 18th of September 2019, at Ngā Purapura our school held a fancy dress.
People dressed up as princesses, animals, cowboys and cowgirls. The teachers were themed as
western and Holes characters. Matua Kahura was dressed as a wolf though. I was dressed as a pink
flamingo. I had a pink tinsel wig, a tutu, homemade beak, feathers and a few other things.

Most classes did a folk dance but some did a South African dance. Our class was second to last to dance
so we had to watch a lot of other dances. My little sister Emma’s dance was first. Her dance was very cute
and simple. Next was Room 2 and 10 and I liked their dance too. 7 and 8 went after them and they did the
Gumboot Dance and it was cool. My friend Joy in Room 6 went up with Room 5 to dance the Virginia Reel.
They did one of the most complicated dances of the night. Next it was us.

My partner was Charlotte who was dressed as a panda. She had face paint with a panda dress. The
class stood up and paraded their costumes across the room and peeled off to our groups. Charlotte and
I were first so we started as soon as the music started. Charlotte was first to go round so I waited. When
she finished I went round and when I finished we both did it. The other partners did it and me and
Charlotte had to do it again. Once we’d finished everyone came together in a group and started
swapping arms with their partner. When the music ended we all did poses that said “Ta da!’.

Mr. Curtis announced, like for every other dance, that we had to grab a parent to dance with us. I chose
my mum. Most of the parents were bad at the dance since they only watched it once. They kept on
going to the wrong people and going out of focus, all sorts of things! It was super fun dancing with my
mum. Me and mum were last so we had to go quick and it didn’t really help that she was clueless. We
finished the dance on time though in cool poses to the audience.

Room 12 and 3 were after us  and danced ‘5, 6, 7, 8’. Most of the people in those classes were dressed
as cowboys and cowgirls. At the end, we all had ice-cream and danced the Macarena. A  lot of people
had left Ngā Purapura though so there weren't many people dancing. They had all thought that the ice
cream was the end. We were forced to stay because Emma was pulling us back. Everyone that was
there had a great time. Overall the dance was super fun.

By Ailie

Class Dance

We're doing a class dance for a school event with fancy dress and all sorts of costumes on. We have to connect our right arms and spin once with a buddy, and the person on the right side of 2 lines will go to the person on the left, next to your buddy. Spin with them and go back to your buddy. Do this until you reach the end of the line. When you reach the end your buddy will do the same thing but on the right side of the line where you were. You follow them along the line and start to do it again but both of you do it this time. When you're done go to the end of the line and people will come to you for a spin and with them always use your left arm, but with with your partner use your right.

I'm pretty bad at the bits where you have to use your left arm when I use my right arm/hand for EVERYTHING (sorry left hand, you're just not good enough) but sometimes I can do it. I'm also bad at timing and dancing. We have to dance while we wait for the music to come on and I don't know what to do there so I just shake my arms. I'm also horrible with timing and instructions, I can't deal with more than 1 instruction. But I wanna know if you can do this dance.

Grab at least six friends and get dancing!