Well if you seen the haka dance and loved it this place is the destination for you. A form of it is performed before games by the All Blacks, New Zealand’s international rugby union team. At times considered a war dance, its purpose was to invoke the war gods and discourage the enemy.
You could learn to synchronize your steps to haka beats at the Te Waipounamu Maori Arts Centre due to open at Willowbank by next year.
Here training will be given to Maori youth in visual and performing arts such as carving and kapa haka.
Ben Brennan, manager of Te Roopu o Tane Mahuta Trust, which is developing the project is quoted to have said:
We’re confident that our path we’re heading towards is for the benefit of our local community and Christchurch community
This $2 million project is hoping to start an academic year by 2008, a visit here would give you an insight into the indigenous Maori culture.
Source: Stuff
